KDMC-FM

For the former student-run station at 103.7 MHz in Cape Girardeau, see KDMC-LP. For information on programming, see KRCU.

KDMC-FM (88.7 FM) is a radio station licensed to Van Buren, Missouri, United States. The station is currently owned by Southeast Missouri State University and simulcasts its KRCU public radio station based in Cape Girardeau.

KDMC-FM

Van Buren, Missouri
Broadcast area	Poplar Bluff, Missouri Doniphan, Missouri
Frequency	88.7 MHz
Branding	KRCU
Programming
Format	Public radio
Affiliations	NPR
Ownership
Owner	Southeast Missouri State University (Board of Regents, Southeast Missouri State University)
History
First air date	2001
Former call signs	KBIY (1998–2020)
Former frequencies	91.3 MHz (2001–2021)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	81163
Class	C1
ERP	100,000 watts horizontal 98,000 watts vertical
HAAT	150 meters (490 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	37°6′25″N 90°59′30″W
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	Official website

History

The Federal Communications Commission issued a construction permit for the station on May 29, 1998.^[2] The station was assigned the KBIY call sign on August 10, 1998,^[3] and received its license to cover on June 26, 2001.^[4] Under its original owner, the New Life Evangelistic Center, KBIY was part of the Here's Help Network of Christian radio programming.

New Life sold the station to Southeast Missouri State University for $45,000 in 2019; the station was to be used to bring NPR to the Poplar Bluff area, with the transmitter to be moved to Elsinore, Missouri.^[5] Under new call letters KDMC-FM—previously associated with the former student-run station at the Cape Girardeau campus—the station returned to the air on May 14, 2020.^[6]

On April 1, 2021, the FCC granted KDMC a frequency change from 91.3 FM to 88.7 FM and moved its transmitter to Ellsinore, Missouri.^[7]