About KVRY 89.1 FM

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March 31, 2025

We had our first meeting to talk about local content.  Meetings will be held Month on the 2nd Monday of every Month between 5-6 PM at the Packwood Improvement Club Building and via zoom.  Anyone interested in being part of this is encouraged to join. Join us in person or via the link below. 

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February 15, 2025

KVRY 89.1 FM started broadcasting Saturday, February 15, 2025.  Weather concerns forced the installation of the broadcast antenna on the ground limiting its range.  In the coming months, this will be moved to the building's roof and community volunteers will work together to create local content.  

Coming in 2024, Packwood Improvement Club (PIC) will work with two additional nonprofits (Cascade Community Radio (CCR) and Common Communications Northwest (CCN) to bring a new local radio station to our community and surrounding area. This station will broadcast on 89.1 FM will present a throw-back in presentation similar to freeform rock stations of the late 1960s-early 1970s. It will be a simulcast of its sister station KVRN on 101.5 FM out of Portland. 

This station will have a ramp up period that will take about a year to fully implement. The first year will start as pre-curated, pre-recorded content.  During this year, Packwood Improvement Club will work with local clubs, schools, businesses and other community organizations to create local news and community events specific to our community. This may take a variety of forms such as public service announcements, podcasts, community calendars, organization meetings, and  local events.  

The Packwood Improvement Club will be working with two other non-profits. This project is in collaboration with Cascade Community Radio (CCR) and Common Communications Northwest (CCN), both Oregon nonprofits, with the first incorporated in 2007, and the second incorporated around 2014.  Both have the ethos of running stations that expose independent and local NW music, and are supportive of community affairs programming.  

CCR and CCN have partnered under the direction of Todd Urick (*see additional information below), with the engineering support of Mike Johnson (ex-head of engineering, Entercom Portland, and KBOO 90.7 FM community radio) and Larry Holtz (ex Chief Engineer of All Classical Public Media Portland), to place newly licensed stations on the air, specifically FCC permits to start stations on Mt Hood, one in western Washington north of Astoria, one on Capital Peak south of Olympia, and eventually one co-located at Crystal Mountain serving several small communities, with coverage into Portland, and Seattle/Tacoma.  

This will be under the "Cavern FM" moniker.  What differentiates this project from most radio stations is the programming on them will be of a more grassroots ethos, with local artists and record collectors involved in producing the programming.