Listeners to KMUN in Astoria will soon have to change stations to hear Terry Gross, Korva Coleman, Peter Sagal and other names associated with NPR programs.

The station is set to lose almost a quarter of its budget due to the end of federal funding for public radio and television stations. And in order to deal with those cuts, it will end its use of NPR shows in favor of locally produced music, talk and public affairs programs.

“We’ve carried NPR programming since 1987, that’s almost our whole life. We started broadcasting in 1983. At the time, there was no other broadcast of national/international news like that,” said Station Manager Susan Peterson.

KMUN is phasing out NPR shows, with the goal of saving money to make up for what it lost when the federal government ceased support for

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