KNKX receives thousands of fresh songs per year for programming consideration. Here are the jazz releases from 2025 that rose ...

88.5 KNKX/Seattle-Tacoma, WA, has hired Northwest Jazz radio veteran Carol Handley as its new Director of Music Programming, starting August 20. Handley comes to KNKX with decades of music programming ...

88.5 KNKX was a big winner at the 2019 PRNDI (Public Radio News Directors, Inc.) Conference on June 15, garnering four national awards, all for the station’s locally-produced storytelling show, Sound ...

Saxophonist and senior at Interlake High School jazz band Vikram Jagannathan shares his favorite jazz with KNKX listeners.

Tacoma-based jazz and blues radio station KNKX is getting $225,000 to bolster its jazz music programming. The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation announced Jan. 28 that it’s providing $1.3 million to ...

After a rescue campaign that raised $7 million-plus from listeners, KPLU-FM radio will soon be wearing new call letters -- KNKX. The jazz-blues-news station will assume its new name once the group ...

Public radio station KNKX is bidding good-bye to Pacific Lutheran University. The station, formerly owned by PLU and known as KPLU, has found a new home in Tacoma, and will relocate from the PLU ...

Pacific Lutheran University students were joined by KPLU (now KNKX) radio station listeners on Dec. 3, 2015 to show support for the school’s radio station after the school announced a sale to Seattle ...

A community meeting organized by 88.5 KNKX radio, which broadcasts from Seattle and Tacoma, to get feedback from listeners will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 12, at Mount Baker Theatre’s Encore Room, ...