Iowa Public Radio has switched its only 24-hour FM News signal to Classical.
K284CN/104.7 (Ames) recently began carrying the Classical service after an FCC requirement to simulcast News network station WOI/640 (Ames) expired. K284CN had been granted as part of the FCC’s AM Revitalization effort with a four-year requirement to relay WOI, which ended in November.
The News network is still available during the day on 100kW WOI-FM/90.1 (Ames), which is part of a network that carries the News service during the day and IPR’s “Studio One” Adult Alternative service in the evening and overnight.
The 24-hour News service is carried on WOI and AM signals in Iowa City and Mason City.
K284CN is the sixth station in a patchwork of FM small signals carrying IPR’s Classical service in central Iowa, which also includes Ames rimshot KICG/91.7 (Perry-Boone). The Classical network is also heard on stations in eastern and northern Iowa.