You are right!!! There are no pictures or colors to keep my attention to KNPR 88.9 FM, but it delivers current affairs and ideas of the future.....so I listen to what they have to say. At least 2 hours a day, I am in my car driving somewhere or stuck in traffic trying to get somewhere. I could daydream a few thoughts and sing along to Adel like nobody's watching, but soon I am compelled to tune in KNPR 88.9 FM....often trying to catch Fresh Air hosted by Terry Gross. She interviews everyone from comedians to politicians....all types of lives matter to us. Her gift is gently opening interviewees hearts without force-to the level often they didn't even intend to do so on public radio. They have a great line-up programs, including but not limited to: Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, Ted Talk, and All Things Considered. Because they are commercial free and member supported radio station, they have non-biased opinions delivering the facts and allowing you to draw your own conclusions. In this society, we are over-stimulated with lots of media but check this geeky station out and enrich your stand in this world. read more

This is absolutely the WORST public radio station for a major city in the United States. Flo Rodgers, the station manager, and CEO is a totally self-centered smug incompetent!! She has been unable to increase membership significantly in the last five years. Despite great economic recovery in the greater Las Vegas area and increase in population, she incompetently hobbles along, unable to significantly increase membership. The station is too indigent to present interesting programming such as "The News Hour" and relies instead on cheaper local "filler" programs. The pledge drives are long, obnoxious, incessant and apparently unsuccessful. Ms. Rodgers has done a terrible job and has created a terrible product. She is too arrogant to acknowledge her incompetency. I stream KQUED from the San Francisco Bay Area. What a relief to listen to competent, interesting programming. Rodgers needs resign her position with KNPR immediately and to return to her home country, The Isle of Mann. INCOMPETENT!!!!!!! read more

I love the classical station, and some of the music hosts have pleasant ways about themselves, but the pledge drives are way too frequent and annoying. Flo Rogers gets on my nerves. I would rather have a few advertisers (tasteful, classy) than hearing the droning about being broke, and how desperate they sound. Love classical music, of course, but I'm switching to my cd player during the long, tedious pledge drives. Right now they are carrying on about a beer mug for Pete's sake. I want to listen in the evening when the hosts are taking me "into the night" without sounding like carnival barkers. read more

I'm a big fan of NPR radio. Love the shows like Fresh Air, All Things Considered and the political views. All very informative and well done. Great to catch up on news when driving since I don't have time to watch TV! read more

KNPR is my favorite station in Las Vegas, providing many great Nevada-produced shows like State of Nevada (Duh!) as well as the exceptional All Things Considered and Morning Edition for the commute. Laughs? Wait Wait Don't Tell Me and Prairie Home Companion are a blast, and are repeated in case you missed them the first time. And that's just a handful of things in the daytime! This station is a gem in Vegas, and I am glad it can be heard anywhere in the Greater Las Vegas area. read more

Does it mean something when what you normally listen to on the radio changes?? Once I was listening to KOMP, or any classic rock (even 80's music) then one day, I decided to flip around the dial and found KNPR. I'm now addicted to it! My faves are The Story, Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me! The World, and the fantastic The Splendid Table. The local coverage is good, State of Nevada very informative for keeping me up-to-date on topical, important news for me. Sad to say, i've actually never listend to John Curtas so I can't comment on his 3 minute resturaunt reviews. Still, a worthwhile listen, and I miss it when i'm out of state. read more

John Curtas is a pretty good food critic and I agree that he is usually right about restaurants. You can see his reviews at this website. I rate him about the same as Max Jacobsen and ahead of Heidi Knapp Rinella. http://www.ksgu.org/foodforthought/listNEW.cfm read more

I've been trying to visit KNPR. I wanted to find out about advertising ratesbut can never catch anybody in... read more

Knpr 88.9 Fm - Tucktaway across the street from Bonanza high school. - Radio Stations Near Me - Las Vegas, Nevada

So why is someone from Maryland listening to Las Vegas' KNPR? For one reason only: John Curtas' "Food for Thought." Mr. Curtas delivers three minute restaurant reviews, along with bad jokes and awful alliteration. One might describe him as quirky, but let's be nice and call him endearing. Nevertheless, when he actually gets around to discussing the merits of a restaurant, he's frequently right. Podcasts of his prior shows are available at the KNPR web site. read more

Very one sided. I was excited to listen to it at first until I realized they are not neutral at all. They are very opinionated and one sided. News/information should be presented in a way that allows the listener to decide where they stand. When information is presented in an attempt to persuade people to believe a certain way the truth is frequently lost. This is not real news. read more

Dear KNPR, I'm a conservative, white, educated Christian. I listen daily. I don't contribute often. I love many of the local and national programs. My comment is that I believe you need to find a way to accurately self assess. Your staff consistently say that KNPR is a non biased, truth stating organization. While I believe you have a professional, hard working staff, they all lean left and present content with that slant. It is not necessarily truth just because you believe it. You must support it with facts provided by educated minds from all sides and be willing to see and accept all sides. What your team THINKS is only of interest in a piece that is explicitly presented as an opinion piece. The fact is that true non biased journalism is almost impossible to find from any source. Please stop telling yourselves and the public over and over again that you're neither Right or Left, it's confusing to listeners and creates a false narrative about reality. You're obviously Left and I can accept that. Be Left, be proud to be Left, but most of all be honest. read more

OMG they are running yet another pledge drive. After suffering through a 2+ week spring pledge drive, followed by an interminable auction, now they're doing a summer pledge drive. Unlike elsewhere in the nation where the station takes one or two spots per hour, this station allows Flo and friends to solicit funds for 20 or more minutes at a time. Too much, folks. You're driving away your listeners. Like me. read more

Awesome station! Until prairie home companion comes on for hours at a time.

A charity website shows that these folks make about $5 million in donations, but spend $2 million fundraising. Wow. Half of what they rake in is respent on fundraising. What futility. And they spend $5 million on Administration, most likely salaries. They are operating nothing more than a jukebox. They don't actually do anything other than press a button on the record player. There is no creative content, except for Flo's overbearing and obnoxious fundraising shtick each and every day - as if anyone wants to hear her trap flapping every 5 friggin minutes. . But we have to endure and be abused by that bore Flo Rogers, President and CEO of the Jukebox, who is now droning on about an anniversary next year, not this year, next year, and how NPR has provided the soundtrack to our lives. Jeezus Chris, give me a break. I'm not a CEO, but I know how to turn on a record player. I wish NV Legislature would pass a law prohibiting owners of radio stations from begging for more than 5 minutes per hour. read more

It doesn't get any better than KNPR for thoughtful and insightful information and programming. I pretty much exclusively listen to KNPR when I have the radio on (largely in my car during my commute), and the national and local programs are exceptional. Morning Edition, All Things Considered, State of Nevada (miss Dave Berns and Gwen Castaldi somewhat), Car Talk, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, John Curtas, news updates, etc.... Only program I am not a fan of is Prairie Home Companion - not sure why - just can't get into it. Also - I had high hopes for the radio bookmark when I got one (it is a USB keychain device that when you click its buttons during a program, it saves a bookmark of the program so you can pull it later and listen to the program) - but I cannot get it to work where it brings up a specific segment as I had hoped - small detail among all of the great things KNPR does. Tremendous community resource, and a special one for me. read more

Use to play great music and have a bit of talk.....now it's just talk talk talk talk like parrots all the time

I'm a big fan of NPR in general. This is the station that is always on in my car when in the Las Vegas area. I only wish they had more original programming, but I also love the NPR produced classics. read more

Will listen to it because it's the only NPR outlet that I can get with my car's stereo as I commute. I'd like to give it 1.5 stars instead of 2, but I can't. Maybe if I can figure out how to stream other stations through webcasts I will say goodbye to KNPR. There is hardly any significant original content, except for State of Nevada, to speak of. Most of it is just programming that they purchase from NPR. read more