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WKPX 88.5 FM "South Florida's Radio Alternative" is a non-commercial educational, non-profit, high school radio station owned and operated by the Broward County Public Schools with studios and transmitters located inside Piper High School, northwest of Fort Lauderdale in Sunrise, Florida. The station broadcasts with the talent of students, school days from 7:30 am to 6 pm and also sometimes after school hours. After hours, broadcast students from Nova Southeastern University man the station, under the name Radio X. WKPX broadcasts to Broward County and has a transmission capacity of 3,000 watts, extending its reach to include part of Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties. Piper High School conducts radio classes that educate high school students in journalism, business management, radio production, communications, music review, and censorship. The students operate the station with the assistance of a faculty advisor; the program involves approximately 200 Piper students. ==History: 1983 to 1987== The station was conceived by its Chief Engineer, Warren Exmore, who earned his U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Engineering license while still a teenager. He served as an electronics and computer instructor at Piper High School. Its first Program Director and broadcasting instructor was Sheldon Shores. Exmore and Shores, working with former Piper principal Robert Beale, and a proposed yearly budget of a $120,000, the station had its maiden broadcast on Valentine’s Day 1983.〔(The Little Station That Could Piper High School`s 3,000-watt Wkpx Turns Students Into Radio Personalities-and Battles The Giant Cbs Television Network To Stay On The Air - Pag... )〕 Upon the departure of co-founder Shores in the summer of 1985, Bill Foreman joined the station as its Operations Manager and its high school program Broadcasting Instructor.〔(Radio Station Making Waves In Sunrise Student-run Wkpx-fm A Big Success - Sun Sentinel )〕 Initially, the station broadcast Top 40 and Classic Rock formats on a 24-Hour schedule from 1983 to 1985. However, staffing a 24-hour operation with high school aged students (in the days before computer automation) proved to be difficult, and presented risk management issues to the school board.〔〔(Piper Students Plan Protest On Radio Hours - Sun Sentinel )〕 Another contributing factor in reducing WKPX from a 24-hour operation to a 12-hour operation was to cut the stations operating costs, which threatened to silence the station permanently.〔(Student Radio Station Forced To Curtail Hours - Sun Sentinel )〕 Thus, WKPX was successful in petitioning the FCC to broadcast on an sunrise/sunset schedule, usually reserved for AM Radio operations, of 7 am to 7 pm.〔(Wkpx Radio Faces Fund Shortage - Sun Sentinel )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WKPX」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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