KUOI-FM

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{{Infobox radio station

| name = KUOI-FM

| city = Moscow, Idaho, U.S.

| logo = {{Location map|USA#Idaho

|relief = 1

|label = Moscow

|position =

|lat = 46.7288

|long = -117.0073

|caption = Location in the United States##Location in Idaho

|marksize = 7

|float = center

|border = infobox

|width = 230

}}

| area = The Palouse
North Central Idaho

| branding = KUOI FM Moscow

| airdate = November 12, 1945
({{Time ago|1945|11|12}})

| frequency = 89.3 MHz
(1968–present)
660 kHz (1947–1968)
655 kHz (1945–1947)

| format = College radio

| erp = 400 watts

| haat = -35 meters

| class = A

| facility_id = 69362

| owner = Associated Students of the University of Idaho (ASUI)

| website = [http://www.kuoi.org/ kuoi.org]

| callsign_meaning = University Of Idaho

| licensing_authority= FCC

}}

KUOI-FM (89.3 FM) is a freeform, college radio station in the western United States at the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho. It broadcasts in Moscow, the neighboring city Pullman, Washington, and in other townships on the Palouse. KUOI is headquartered on the third floor of the Bruce Pitman Center (the former Student Union Building) at Sixth and Deakin streets, on the northeast edge of campus.

The station began operating {{Time ago|1945}} in 1945,{{cite news |url=https://digital.lib.uidaho.edu/cdm/ref/collection/argonaut/id/2296?_ga=2.163262654.343941606.1506404953-374550616.1499903542 |work=Idaho Argonaut |location=(Moscow) |agency=(University of Idaho) |title=Radio club plans new and better radio programs |date=November 15, 1945 |page=1}}{{cite news |url=https://digital.lib.uidaho.edu/cdm/ref/collection/argonaut/id/2300?_ga=2.238747010.343941606.1506404953-374550616.1499903542 |work=Idaho Argonaut |location=(Moscow) |agency=(University of Idaho) |title=Talent call issued for programs over KUOI |date=November 21, 1945 |page=1}} and began FM programming 23 years later in 1968, officially starting on Sunday, November 17.{{cite news |url=https://digital.lib.uidaho.edu/cdm/ref/collection/argonaut/id/3396?_ga=2.198873901.343941606.1506404953-374550616.1499903542 |work=Idaho Argonaut |location=(Moscow) |agency=(University of Idaho)|last=Seale |first=Larry |title=KUOI officially begins FM programming on Sunday |date=November 15, 1968 |page=1}}{{cite news |url=https://digital.lib.uidaho.edu/cdm/ref/collection/argonaut/id/3406?_ga=2.128094990.343941606.1506404953-374550616.1499903542 |work=Idaho Argonaut |location=(Moscow) |agency=(University of Idaho) |title=KUOI now broadcasting FM to Moscow, Pullman |date=November 19, 1968 |page=1}}

Starting on the AM dial in 1945 at 655 kHz with a two-watt transmitter, it moved to 660 in 1947 at five watts; with the move to FM, it went to ten watts in 1968 at 89.3 MHz.{{cite web|url=https://media.kuoi.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Fall-1995.pdf |work=KUOI: In Cue |last=Marone |first=Erik |title=Still chafing after all these years |date=Fall 1995 |pages=18–21}} It boosted up to fifty watts and stereo in 1977,{{cite news|url=https://digital.lib.uidaho.edu/cdm/ref/collection/argonaut/id/3824?_ga=2.135983539.343941606.1506404953-374550616.1499903542|work=Idaho Argonaut |location=(Moscow) |agency=(University of Idaho) |last=Loftus |first=Bill |title=KUOI: stalking number one spot in student radio |date=January 11, 1977 |page=8}}{{cite news |date=January 14, 1977 |title=KUOI tower erection will boost transmission |url=https://digital.lib.uidaho.edu/cdm/ref/collection/argonaut/id/3825?_ga=2.158478776.343941606.1506404953-374550616.1499903542 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170927112212/https://digital.lib.uidaho.edu/cdm/ref/collection/argonaut/id/3825?_ga=2.158478776.343941606.1506404953-374550616.1499903542 |archive-date=September 27, 2017 |work=Idaho Argonaut |location=(Moscow) |page=12 |agency=(University of Idaho)}} and to 400 watts in January 1995.{{cite news |url=https://digital.lib.uidaho.edu/cdm/ref/collection/argonaut/id/9958?_ga=2.128620302.343941606.1506404953-374550616.1499903542 |work=Idaho Argonaut |location=(Moscow) |agency=(University of Idaho) |last=Casey |first=Dawn |title=KUOI finally gets a power boost |date=January 17, 1995 |page=1}}