KRCC

720 N. Tejon St

The story of KRCC began in earnest with a war surplus FM transmitter in 1951. In the mid-1940s Colorado College Professor Woodson “Chief” Tyree set up a broadcast studio at the college. Professor Tyree, along with his students, would transmit through local stations KVOR and KRDO. In 1951 Margaret Merle-Smith suggested that they should start their own radio station. Merle-Smith found and purchased an old military transmitter. Fellow student Charles “Bud” Edmonds got the transmitter set up and broadcasting in South Hall, one of the surplus World War II buildings on campus. In 1983, KRCC became at National Public Radio (NPR) affiliate.