Station News

WKAR and Michigan State University entered the era of radio broadcasting on August 18, 1922! Join us this August as we celebrate 95 years making a difference in your capital region. 

Celebrating mid-Michigan’s long running high school game show with season full of surprises.

WKAR Evergreen Partner Julie Pierce is the happy winner of an Epiphone PR-150 acoustic guitar signed by blues guitar great Joe Bonamassa.

Julie is a longtime WKAR donor and has plans to begin taking guitar lessons soon. The TV GiveAway was part of a recent fundraising campaign that raised over $60,000 in support of quality television for mid-Michigan.

The WKAR News staff won several awards from the Michigan Associated Press Media Editors. 

Partnership will bring DSO concerts to capital area listeners, MSU concerts to southeast Michigan

EAST LANSING, Mich. --- Thanks to a new partnership between radio stations WKAR in East Lansing and WRCJ in Detroit, classical music lovers in the capital region will be able to hear Detroit Symphony Orchestra concerts live, and listeners in Detroit will be able to tune in concert performances from Michigan State University's College of Music.

BackStage Pass, Faces of Flint, Flint news coverage among Best in Category winners

MARCH 3, 2017, EAST LANSING, Mich. --- Susi Elkins has been named director of Broadcasting and general manager of WKAR Public Media at Michigan State University, effective immediately.

Roughly 1,500 people visited the WKAR Public Media studios at Michigan State University’s College of Communication Arts and Sciences on Saturday, January 14 to celebrate the launch of a new, free, localized 24-hour kids channel and multiplatform services from WKAR Public Media. 

Curious Crew fans can now further explore science and become a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) scientist through the STEM Game Crew website. The new site is a companion to the WKAR original television series Curious Crew and is currently in the beta stages.

A new research project asks how children can be encouraged to think of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) as possible careers.

A collaboration between WKAR Public Media and the MSU College of Communication Arts and Sciences (ComArtSci), the research explores the impact of a science program designed for elementary and middle-school students on their perceptions of science and a possible career in STEM.

WKAR Evergreen Partner Marvin Dunn is the happy winner of a Les Paul Special II electric guitar signed by blues guitar great Joe Bonamassa. 

WKAR's Susi Elkins and Mike Mihalus honored with Michigan Emmy® award for Children's Program.

7p Sat. Jun. 18 Live from MotorCity Casino Sound Board Theater | WKAR and MSU are nominated for a total of 18 awards. WATCH LIVE HERE

Emmy award-winning actor Timothy Busfield will join the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University (MSU) as an artist in residence, effective June 15.

The 38th annual Emmy® nominees have been announced by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences – Michigan, and both WKAR and Michigan State University (MSU) have received nominations.