CapRadio

The latest North State and California news on our airwaves for Monday, July 7, 2025.

CapRadio Board Members approved the end of its operating agreements with NSPR and KHSU. The Sacramento-based station plans to transfer both public radio stations to their license holders by November.

Management of NSPR in Chico and KHSU in Humboldt County would return to their individual license holders, Chico State Enterprises and Cal Poly Humboldt, respectively.

The latest North State and California news on our airwaves for Monday, June 30, 2025.

Former GM Jun Reina’s attorney responded to CapRadio’s lawsuit claiming any financial error was “made in good faith and not intentional.”

The document, reviewed by a CapRadio reporter, names Reina – who ran CapRadio from 2021-2023 – as the recipient of at least $460,000 in “unsupported” payments or reimbursements from the station.

The university contracted independent accounting firm CliftonLarsonAllen to conduct the examination and write the summary of its findings that was released to the public on Monday. It was removed on Thursday evening.

A summary of the highly anticipated report, released Monday, answers questions that have dogged the financially troubled station for a year. A criminal investigation by the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office is expected to follow.

After a financial backer of CapRadio donated one of its broadcasting towers to KVIE following calls for a merger between the two public media stations, management of the Sacramento NPR member station argues they ‘definitively’ own the tower.

CapRadio’s Vicki Gonzalez asked CapRadio Interim General Manager Tom Karlo for an end-of-year update on unprecedented financial challenges facing the news and music stations, following a devastating audit commissioned by the CSU system.