Northwest Public Broadcasting

Northwest Public Broadcasting (NWPB) is the public radio and television service of Washington State University, licensed to the university and operated as a community service of the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication. Its roots go back to KWSU, which first broadcast on December 10, 1922, and the radio and television services merged under the NWPB name in 2018. The organization is a member of NPR and PBS, and its main offices are in the Murrow Communications Center on the WSU campus in Pullman, with satellite studios in Richland, Moscow, Lakewood, Tacoma and Wenatchee.

NWPB's radio network of some twenty stations and translators runs two main services, NPR News and NPR and Classical Music, plus a jazz service on KJEM 89.9 FM in Pullman and KOHO 101.1 FM in Leavenworth, and it produces local news in English and Spanish, podcasts and programs such as Press A to Play. On television, KTNW channel 31 in Richland carries PBS programming and local productions; KWSU-TV in Pullman went off the air at the end of 2025 after federal public broadcasting funding ended and the organization cut $1.8 million from its budget. In all NWPB counts 38 transmitters and eight program services reaching nearly 80 percent of Washington and parts of Oregon, Idaho and British Columbia, about 3.6 million people in 44 counties.

NWPB has a staff of about thirty in content and news, engineering, development and membership, marketing and administration. Its positions are Washington State University jobs, posted on the university's Workday careers site and linked from nwpb.org/careers, and WSU is an equal opportunity employer.