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KCUR
U.S. center-left (mainstream public radio)
KCUR is a Kansas City public radio station and NPR member licensed to the University of Missouri system. It is funded mainly by donors, underwriters and grants, and is moving toward nonprofit independence. Its news coverage follows standard public-media practice, with a mildly center-left tilt in its audience and framing. Its posture toward the Trump administration is mostly neutral and news-driven, though it has covered the loss of federal public-media funding as a direct threat to its own operations.
Owned byThe broadcast license for KCUR 89.3 FM is held by the University of Missouri System Board of Curators, through the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC). The station is editorially independent of the university. In 2025 UMKC began a plan to move KCUR and its sister station Classical KC to an independent community nonprofit (Friends of KCUR) within about three years. Reporting as of mid-2026 indicates UMKC still held the license.
LeaningU.S. center-left (mainstream public radio)
On the administrationmostly neutral
3.5average bias score across 2 stories
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun