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"KFRU (1400 AM) is a radio station located in Columbia, Missouri. Its programming format consists primarily of news, talk and sports. The station is licensed to Cumulus Media. The station is also audible on translator K255DJ 98.9 FM in Columbia. History KFRU was founded in Bristow, Oklahoma by E.H. Rollestone, in January 1925. That fall, the station was purchased by Stephens College and moved to Columbia (with Rollestone going on to found KVOO-AM, now KFAQ).Tulsa Radio: KVOO-AM On September 24, 1935, the Federal Communications Commission approved transfer of the station from Nelson R. Darragh, of St. Louis, to Luther L. Hill, of Des Moines. Several owners later, the station was purchased by the St. Louis Star-Times newspaper, mostly for its regional broadcast frequency of 630 kHz, later moved to its St. Louis radio station, KXOK. In 1940, KFRU became an affiliate of the Blue Network. The station was assigned its current 1400 kHz frequency in 1941. Mahlon Aldridge, Jr. was appointed manager in 1945, purchasing the station in 1948 in partnership with the publisher of the Columbia Daily Tribune. In 1957, the station's format consisted of a mixture of country music, news and sports. Aldridge sold his interest to his partner's son in the 1980s, and competition caused the station's audience share to fall. After another change in ownership, KFRU was purchased by a local ownership group headed by Al Germond, who moved the studios into the broadcast complex with their KARO-FM (now KPLA) station. The group formed and purchased additional stations in the Columbia and Jefferson City markets under the name of Premier Marketing Group. In 2004, KFRU and the other Premier Marketing Group stations were sold to Cumulus Broadcasting. In August 2017, KFRU applied for an FM translator at 98.9 as part of the FCC's AM revitalization project. The translator signed on for the first time on August 18, 2019. Network affiliations=ABC Radio Network When KFRU was purchased by the Star-Times, it became affiliated with the NBC Blue Network, now the ABC Radio Network,. KFRU switched to the Westwood One/CNN news feed in 2012. After Westwood One ended their newsfeed, KFRU returned to ABC News Radio on August 31, 2020. Missouri Tiger Network KFRU was the longtime flagship station of play-by-play broadcasts of Missouri Tiger football and basketball teams. On December 22, 2009, Mizzou Sports Properties (owned by Learfield Sports) announced it would move Tiger broadcasts to Zimmer Radio's mid-Missouri cluster, fronted by 99,000-watt KCMQ, starting in 2010. With KMOX-AM in St. Louis as a network affiliate, the network has had many regional and national broadcasters providing play-by-play and color commentary for MU sports broadcasts, including: *Jack Buck (member of the Baseball and Radio Hall of Fame) *Harry Caray (member of the Baseball Hall of Fame) *Bob Starr *Bob Costas (NBC Sports) *Kevin Harlan (CBS Sports) *Tom Dore (Chicago Bulls) *Joe Buck (Fox Sports) *John Rooney (Chicago White Sox, St. Louis Cardinals) *Bill Wilkerson *Kellen Winslow (Fox Sports Net) (member of the College Football Hall of Fame and Pro Football Hall of Fame) *Dan Kelly (member of the Hockey Hall of Fame) *Jon Sundvold *Kevin Calabro Former color commentators include Jim Kennedy and Rod Kelly. The current broadcast teams through the 2011-12 season are: *Football - Mike Kelly (play-by-play), Howard Richards (color commentary) and Chris Gervino (sideline) *Men's Basketball - Mike Kelly (play-by-play) and Gary Link (color commentary) *Women's Basketball - David Lile or Will Palaszczuk (play-by-play) and Gary Link or Michael Porter (color commentary) St. Louis Cardinals Baseball Network As of the 2012 Major League Baseball season, the station is no longer a St. Louis Cardinals radio network affiliate; Zimmer Radio's KSSZ replaced KFRU as the Columbia market affiliate. According to previous years' KFRU promotional advertisements, they had been affiliated with the Cardinals for at least 60 years. Awards *Peabody Award for Public Service by a Small Station, 1940 *Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism, presented to Mahlon Aldridge *KFRU awarded the Missouri Broadcasters Association 2015 Station of the Year award. This was the first ever Station of the Year award given by the MBA. *KFRU inducted into the Boone County Historical Society's Hall of Fame, October 8, 2015, just days after the station's 90th Anniversary. Affiliation with the University of Missouri School of Journalism Prior to the founding of University-owned station KBIA-FM in 1971, KFRU was a primary training ground for broadcast journalism students at the University. Even after this time, the station still employs students and recent graduates; many graduates list the station on their current employment biography pages. Former KFRU employees in TV/radio *Eric Engberg, news director, 1963-68 - retired CBS News Washington Correspondent *Ben Bradley, host, reporter and news anchor - currently WLS-TV general assignment reporter *Dave Hunziker, sports director - currently Oklahoma State Cowboys play-by-play *Chris Gervino, sports director - currently KOMU-TV sports director *Will Sterrett, board-op - currently Rockcastle Media Networks president/CEO, KMBZ-FM morning co-anchor *Sean Kelley - sports director - currently New Orleans Pelicans play-by-play *Ed Kilgore - currently WGRZ-TV sports director *Mike Roberts - currently KRCG-TV chief meteorologist *Mark Reardon - currently KMOX-AM talk show host *John Carney - overnight board-op/host - currently KMOX-AM talk show host *Michael Calhoun - currently KMOX-AM news anchor *Amy Miller - currently local Morning Edition host at WDET *Joe Scialfa - currently Newsradio 620 WTMJ-AM, Program Director *Michael Putney, news director - currently WPLG-TV, Miami Political Reporter *Steve Moore - currently KMOX-AM, Vice President of News/Talk, CBS Radio, Director of Programming and Operations *Ellen Schenk - currently KMBZ- FM morning co-anchor *Larry Zimmer - retired KOA-AM sports director, University of Colorado play-by-play *Mark Becker - WSOC-TV reporter *Mark Davidson - KSNW-TV sports anchor/reporter *Matt Boltz - currently Houston Astrosradio network producer/engineer *Kevin Larue - currently KSL-AM news and program director *RJ McAllister, news - formerly news director at KWTO *Jim Fry - currently at WFAA *Brian Sussman - currently host at KSFO *Paul Hannigan, news director - formerly reporter at KTRH-AM *Darren Hellwege - Host of "Morning Edition" and "Thinking Out Loud with Darren Hellwege" on KBIA-FM, Columbia; formerly of KCSC and WWLS, Oklahoma City. *Dick (Kettenbrink) Preston - Currently Morning and Noon news anchor at KRCG-TV Jefferson City, Mo. Other former employees and program hosts *James Keown - state capital reporter and Sunday Morning Roundtable contributor - currently incarcerated in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts after being convicted of murdering his wife by poisoning her with antifreeze. Keown was arrested by the United States Marshal’s Service in November 2005 during a commercial break on his “Partyline” program on sister-station KLIK in Jefferson City, Mo. *Roger Gafke, news director *Scott Baker - currently press secretary for Rep. Kenny Hulshof *Rod Kelly - Missouri Basketball color commentator *Kathy Poppe (Watson) *Barry Bennett - Currently Director of Communications for Missouri House of Representatives *Brian Hauswirth, news director - currently public information officer with the Missouri Department of Corrections *Doug Ross *Dick Aldrich -Radio Communications for Missouri House of Representatives *Chris Lincoln - co-founder of Winnercomm; ABC Sports and ESPN commentator on Thoroughbred racing; former sports host of KTUL-TV, Tulsa *Dr. John Williams - host, The Pet Place *Bob O'Connell - host, The Garden Spot *Ray Rothenberger - host, The Garden Spot (deceased) *Stacy Allen - meteorologist *Brendan Cosgrove - news - currently Broadcast Associate at Northwestern University *Greg Crain - sports (deceased) *Leslie Callison - news *Judd McIlvain - consumer reporter, worked at KRCG, KTTV, KCBS-TV and CBS 48 Hours. *Ara Ayer - reporter for WAAY-TV; producer for Dateline NBC, NBC Nightly News; conflict photographer: World Picture News; commercial director, DP, filmmaker for PBS, Bloomberg TV *Anne Steffens - formerly with KMOV, now Director of the Office of Communications of the Archdiocese of St. Louis *John Fougere, sportscaster - currently Press Secretary to Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon *Robert Loggia - actor *Brad Whitworth - sportscaster/announcer - now Sr. Comms Mgr, Strategic Alliances at Cisco Systems *Kevin M. Gray - sportscaster and sports director - now President of the Kansas City Sports Commission *Tony Messenger - evening show host; was concurrently a Columnist with the Columbia Daily Tribune - now Editorial Page Editor of the Springfield News-Leader *Chris Kelly - evening show host; former local and state politician; resigned to accept appointment as Boone County associate circuit judge (retired) - now Democratic candidate for Missouri House of Representatives 24th District *Mike Kelly - Morning sports reports; Missouri Men's Basketball play-by-play; Left his full-time job as Missouri Athletic Department Director of Broadcast Operations on May 30, 2007 to join The Insurance Group sales department , but will remain as play-by-play announcer. During the David Lile Show on June 29, 2007, it was announced that it was his last day "due to budgetary reasons" with the Cumulus stations (he also provided reports for Jefferson City station KLIK-AM) *Dave Schmidt - Weatherman for KOMU TV in Columbia, Mo. *Steve Lager- 25 year radio career in Kansas City including mornings at KCIY *Dusty Rhodes- the Midnight Mayor *Bob Pollack - Sports Director *Brad Stephenson - news anchor/reporter Richard M. Cottam (deceased) - news anchor/reporter 1957-1963; Instructor Dept. of Journalism Univ. of Missouri- Columbia 1956-1963; Co-host "Conversations with Dick and Doris" 1961-1963; NBC News associate Producer Huntley-Brinkley Report 1963-1967; NBC News Election unit 1968-1971 ReferencesExternal links *History of KFRU * * FRU Category:News and talk radio stations in the United States Category:Radio stations established in 1925 Category:Cumulus Media radio stations "
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"The RAF 1 was a British air-cooled, V-8 engine developed for aircraft use during World War I. Based on a French design, it was developed at the Royal Aircraft Factory, and built by six different British companies including Daimler, Rolls-Royce and Wolseley Motors Limited. Design and development The RAF 1 was based on the Renault 70/80 hp engine, being intended specifically to replace that engine in the B.E.2c. It featured larger cylinders () for a total displacement of 540 cubic inches (8.8 L). It was rated at 92 hp (70 kW) at 1,600 rpm. The heads were cast integrally with the cylinders, with the intake and exhaust valves set one above the other in an upside-down F-head configuration. The engines featured a large diameter lightweight flywheel at the rear, enclosed in a cast housing. Engine oil was picked up from the bottom of the crankcase and slung into a reservoir at the top. From there it was gravity fed, via a gallery high on the right side of the engine block, to the main bearing caps, and then to the connecting rod journals by centrifugal effect of the turning crankshaft. The main bearings were ball bearings and were splash fed. Engine oil from the gallery was also supplied to the 1 : 2 reduction gearbox at the front. This drove the four- bladed propeller at one half engine speed, and the single camshaft was splined into the rear of the short propeller shaft. This arrangement meant that no mechanical oil pump was needed. Excess engine oil from the flywheel overflowed the reservoir and trickled over the large surface area of the round flywheel cover. Two passages cast into the cover took air-fuel mixture from the carburettor mounted at the bottom to a copper U-shaped inlet manifold mounted between the banks of cylinders, and the flywheel cover acted as a heat exchanger, preheating the fuel-air mixture. In late 1915, the bore was increased to , leading to an increased displacement of 590 cubic inches (9.7 L) and power of 86 kW (115 hp) at 1,800 rpm. Lumsden 2003, p. 223. Supercharger In late 1915 a supercharged experimental version of the RAF 1a was developed, the engine being flown in a B.E.2c improving the climb from taking 36 minutes to reach 8,500 ft without the supercharger, to reaching 11,500 ft in the same time.http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/aircraft/50719-increasing-charge-2.html Variants RAF 1 RAF 1a (standard engine for aircraft using this powerplant) RAF 1b (uprated version slated for installation in the B.E.2e - reliability problems precluded production)Hare (1990) p. 115 RAF 1c RAF 1e Applications List from Lumsden *Airco DH.6 *Armstrong Whitworth F.K.2 *Armstrong Whitworth F.K.3 *Boulton Paul P.6 *Boulton Paul P.9 *de Havilland DH.51 (prototype) *Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2 *Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.9 (For a brief period following WWI examples were fitted to several privately owned aircraft due to the engine's cheapness and comparative fuel economy - one was even found in a privately owned S.E.5a). Specifications (RAF 1a)See alsoReferences=NotesBibliography * * Hare, Paul R. The Royal Aircraft Factory. London: Putnam, 1990. * Lumsden, Alec. British Piston Engines and their Aircraft. Marlborough, Wiltshire: Airlife Publishing, 2003. . Category:1910s aircraft piston engines "