KUAF Public Radio 91.3 FM NPR

KUAF main entrance located at 9 S. School Ave. in Fayetteville, AR

KUAF is the public radio station and NPR affiliate for northwest Arkansas, the Arkansas River Valley, eastern Oklahoma and southwestern Missouri.
Listen to KUAF at 91.3 FM.

Our mission is to be a leader in public media, serving our audience with programs that challenge, entertain, educate and inform.

Licensed by the University of Arkansas, the Board of Trustees acts as KUAF's board and meets five times each year.
You can find a full schedule of Board of Trustees' meetings here.

Our History

KUAF 88.9 FM went on the air in 1973 as a 10-watt student radio station supervised by a faculty member in the Department of Journalism at the University of Arkansas. In 1985, a new commercial station (carrier-current/cable) was built for students at the University of Arkansas, and KUAF was changed to a professional public radio station featuring NPR news, classical music, jazz, folk, blues, and other public radio programs like Car Talk and A Prairie Home Companion.

Now operating at 91.3 FM with a powerful 100,000-watt transmitter, KUAF provides a 14-county area of west and northwest Arkansas, parts of eastern Oklahoma, and southern Missouri with the only source of national and international news from NPR, as well as a daily local news magazine, Ozarks at Large.

In 2006, KUAF was the first station in the region to broadcast in HD and developed HD-2 and HD-3 stations, which provided even more public service to the area. HD-2 features classical music 24 hours a day, and HD-3 airs jazz with doses of locally produced music programs on the weekends.

Owned by the University of Arkansas, KUAF was originally located on campus in a run-down old house on Duncan Avenue and then in a university-owned apartment complex. That complex was demolished in 2010 to make room for a new academic building.

By December 2009, KUAF staff had raised more than $2 million, bought property and built a state-of-the-art radio station off campus. The new location is at 9 S. School Ave., near the Downtown Fayetteville Square, across from the Fayetteville Public Library. KUAF is at the heart of northwest Arkansas' intellectual and artistic hub.