A court has ruled that Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) cannot have about $120,000 several people left for KPLU when they died. You may recall that station was going to be sold to The University of Washington before The Friends of KPLU raised enough money to buy the station and keep it going. It is now KNKX. The University says the donors bequested the funds for the station they listened to, KPLU, not KNKX.
According to The Seattle Times, the new owners argued that the donors wanted to support their local public-radio station, not the university. Stephen Tan, chairman of the station’s board of directors, said “They supported KPLU, because that’s the radio station that they listened to.” KNKX sued last month in King County Superior Court, and on Thursday, Commissioner Henry Judson said the station should get the money. The order he signed gives Friends of 88.5 FM — the group that runs the station — the three bequests and any others made to “KPLU.”
