Tarleton station, KTRL, announces new programming

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STEPHENVILLE (January 12, 2016) — KTRL 90.5, the leading NPR radio station in The Cross Timbers region announces it is adding new, high quality news programming to its daily lineup from Texas Standard and national & international news from Feature Story News, the top independent news producer in the world, starting February 1, 2016.

KTRL 90.5’s General Manager John Kirby said, “We are thrilled about the new shows we are adding to the station. It’s going to bring a wider scope of news to the listeners in the Cross Timbers area because we will be covering everything from state to international news. Our audience members also won’t miss any of the terrific jazz and music shows they’ve come to love”

Beginning February 1, 2016, all of KTRL’s popular local music shows are being moved to 1 p.m. KTRL will also be adding high quality Texas, national, and international news shows.

From 3 p.m. to 4 p.m., KTRL will now air The Texas Standard. Texas Standard is an all Texas news program. The station will also be increasing its news output with bulletins from FSN in Washington D.C.

The daily jazz and music shows are changing their programming times and days as well. The shows will now begin at 1p.m. each weekday.

Monday- Standards, Jazz, & the Blues with Janice Horak & Stephen Wilson

Tuesday- Essential Jazz with Hank Jones & Mike Pierce

Wednesday- Beatles & Beyond with Moumin Quazi

Thursday- Crooner Cavalcade with Ed Tober

Friday– Standards, Jazz, & the Blues with Janice Horak & Stephen Wilson

About KTRL 90.5

KTRL 90.5 programs the best in NPR News, classical and jazz music in Cross Timbers and is partnered with KAMU-FM, Texas A&M’s public radio station in College Station. This allows KTRL to serve a large number of people in the Cross Timbers that do not have access to the quality programming from National Public Radio (NPR) that many people rely on for news and information.

Located at Tarleton State University, KTRL 90.5 FM has a staff consisting mostly of students at the University whom you will occasionally hear on air along with the regular programming. KTRL 90.5 covers a 10-county area of the Cross Timbers from our transmitter located between Stephenville and Granbury, with our strongest signal available in Stephenville, Granbury, Glen Rose, Hico and Dublin, covering about 100,000 people in this core 3-county area, with nearly 1.5 million people in our extended full coverage area.

For more information call Rebekah Gilligan at (254)-968-9586, or visit http://www.tarleton.edu/ktrl or follow @KTRLradio on Twitter.

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