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High Plains Public Radio
High Plains Public Radio (HPPR) is a network of public radio stations serving the High Plains region — based in Garden City, Kansas, it reaches western Kansas, eastern Colorado, and the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles with NPR news, classical music, and jazz through one of the largest coverage areas in the NPR system.
About High Plains Public Radio
HPPR is operated by the Kanza Society, founded in 1977 — at a time when virtually no rural community radio licensees existed, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting told organizers southwest Kansas lacked the population to sustain a 100,000-watt station. A grassroots fundraising effort led by founder Quentin Hope and his colleagues proceeded anyway. The flagship station KANZ (91.1 FM) in Garden City signed on June 30, 1980, from a studio in a converted elementary school in nearby Pierceville, broadcasting from 210 North Seventh Street in Garden City.
The network has since grown to twelve full-power stations plus low-powered translators across Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Texas — including KJJP in Amarillo, its largest urban center — covering 78 counties. Most of that territory had never been served by an NPR station before. The network offers two HD Radio subchannels: HD1 simulcasts the NPR/classical/jazz format, and HD2 — "HPPR Connect" — carries an extended schedule of news programming. Both are streamed live on the internet.
Today HPPR, headquartered on North Seventh Street in Garden City with an additional studio at Arts in the Sunset in Amarillo, remains an affiliate of National Public Radio, American Public Media, Public Radio International, and the WFMT Radio Network. Its digital home is hppr.org.
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