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Laura Knoll

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Laura came home to KGOU after a career in radio news at several commercial stations in Oklahoma City. As a Journalism student at OU, she received her early radio experience at KGOU. After graduating, she began her career at KNOR in Norman as a news reporter and anchor. Laura served as morning co-anchor at WKY in the mid-1980's, then worked at KTOK as morning news producer and general assignment reporter. In 2003 she joined the news department at KOMA.

Laura has won several awards for news writing from the Associated Press, Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters, the Society of Professional Journalists, and the Oklahoma Education Association. She has previously served on the board of the Society of Professional Journalists, Oklahoma Pro Chapter.

A Norman native and graduate of Moore High School, Laura earned her Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from the University of Oklahoma in 1983.

9:21 pm
Fri April 19, 2013

'The Hunt Is Over': Police Apprehend Marathon Bombing Suspect

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Police say they've captured Suspect #2 in Monday's bombing at the Boston Marathon.
Gunfire and explosions have been heard in the Boston suburb of Watertown, Mass., and police have converged on the area. The events there follow the shooting death late Thursday of a campus police officer at the nearby Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Awards
2:56 pm
Mon April 1, 2013

KGOU Student Broadcasters Win National Honors

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Meredith Everitt and Lauren Abram
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If you're familiar with KGOU's student-produced public affairs program Assignment: Radio, then you already know we have some talented student broadcasters taking the university course known internally as Radio News.

But to banish any doubts, here's proof: In the National Broadcasting Society (Alpha Epsilon Rho) annual student competition, Assignment: Radio reporters won national awards for their work in 2012.

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30th Anniversary
11:58 am
Wed March 20, 2013

KGOU and Me: Has It Been 30 Years Already?

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Michael Feldman brought Whad'ya Know? to OU's Holmberg Hall in the early 1990s.
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Tom Miller and Janet Evans were also student broadcasters ca. 1983.
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This room was News Control in 1983, used as a production room ca. 2005.
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News Control now, with Kurt Gwartney at the helm.
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Listenership has increased (average weekly audience)
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And so has fundraising (annual giving from individuals and businesses)
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Diane Rehm and husband John came to OKC when her first book came out.
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You Bet Your Garden's Mike McGrath came here for a Garden Party.
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Zorba Paster came to OKC as a guest of the Oklahome Medical Research Foundation.
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StoryCorps came for a month-long stay just a few years ago.
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On Jan. 1, 1983, KGOU became a non-commercial public radio station. I barely noticed.

I should have noticed. After all, I was working at KGOU as a volunteer student broadcaster, and for the past year and a half I’d been dragging my sleep-deprived self out of bed at 6 a.m. (an hour most college students deemed unthinkable)  to write and deliver two five-minute newscasts each morning. Still, I didn’t pay much attention.

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