When you want to tune out the noise of the world, you know you can tune into KYRS.
Every day of the year, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, KYRS shows up for our community. A real human being sits behind every mic: curating music, sharing stories, lifting up unheard voices, and reminding listeners across the Inland Northwest that they are not alone.
And you show up for us, too. Every time a caller shares a story on-air, every time a listener tells us they discovered a new artist or felt a little less isolated because of something they heard, that connection is the heartbeat of community radio.
Year end giving is rooted in collective power and radical generosity. If ever there were values that live at the core of KYRS, these are the ones. Today is about choosing the community we want to strengthen. It’s about supporting the places that help shape the world around us.
If KYRS is part of your community, if it informs you, inspires you, comforts you, connects you, please consider making a gift today.
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What Your Support Made Possible This Year
Your generosity doesn’t just keep the lights on, it builds a platform for voices that often go unheard. Here’s what listener support fueled this year at KYRS:
Expanding Representation & Lifting New Voices
Listeners helped us add powerful new locally produced programs, each created by community members bringing their lived experiences to the airwaves. Alongside our long-running line-up covering healthcare, worker’s rights, environmental issues, Indigenous affairs, arts, culture, and a wide spectrum of music programming, KYRS added:
• Q It Up – with CyLee_VQ and Whiskey Trish, giving LGBTQ artists and storytellers the airtime and affirmation they deserve.
• El Puente – a bridge to the Latin community, sharing education, resources, and vital conversations about issues impacting Hispanic and Latinx families.
• The Voice of Culture – celebrating African American culture, championing racial equality, and exploring the stories and perspectives that enrich our community.
• Free Range – a weekly round-up from the minds behind Range Media, diving deeper into the essential local news, public-meeting drama, and the journalism shaping Spokane.
More Ways for the Community to Be Heard
This year we launched People Talk, a live call-in show giving listeners a direct line to the airwaves, your thoughts, your ideas, your concerns, your community issues, all in your own voice.
Celebrating Local Music & Creativity
Together with Central Library, we created Lilac City Sounds with KYRS, a monthly live broadcast and video showcase of the extraordinary musical talent in our region. We’re not just airing performances, we’re archiving our city’s cultural heartbeat.
This Is the Power of Collective Giving
This is what your support builds: local journalism, diverse storytelling, cultural celebration, live music, and authentic human connection.
Community radio only works because community makes it work.
Your year end gift ensures we can continue amplifying voices, nurturing new creators, empowering local journalism, mentoring young broadcasters, and holding space for anyone who needs to hear: You belong here.
If KYRS has inspired you, comforted you, informed you, or simply made you feel connected, today is the day your gift makes the biggest impact.
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Thank you for showing up for community radio.
Thank you for showing up for each other.
And thank you for being here.
