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KSJR-FM
KSJR-FM (90.1 FM) is a radio station licensed to Collegeville, Minnesota, and serving the St. Cloud area. The station is owned by Minnesota Public Radio (MPR), and airs MPR's " Classical Music Network," originating from the Twin Cities. The station has inserts at least once an hour for local underwriting and weather. KSJR was the birthplace of MPR. It signed on from the campus of Saint John's University on January 22, 1967. However, it soon became apparent that the station needed to reach the Twin Cities, an hour southeast, if it had any chance of surviving, as the St. Cloud/ Stearns County area was not nearly large enough for the station to be viable. KSJR tripled its power in hopes of reaching the valuable Twin Cities market. Even then, it barely covered Minneapolis and missed St. Paul. The station's young general manager, Bill Kling, then persuaded Saint John's to sign on a repeater for the Twin Cities, KSJN. By 1969, however, the operation was still awash in debt, so S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KSJN
KSJN (99.5 FM broadcasting, FM, "YourClassical MPR") is the flagship station of Minnesota Public Radio's European classical music, classical music network, serving the Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Twin Cities region. KSJN's studios are located at the MPR Broadcast Center on Cedar Street in downtown St. Paul, while its transmitter is located on the KMSP Tower in Shoreview, Minnesota, Shoreview. The 99.5 frequency was established as commercial radio station WLOL-FM in 1957; the station achieved its most success as a top-rated contemporary hit radio, Top 40/CHR station during the 1980s. It was purchased by MPR in 1991. Background KSJN intellectual unit College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University, Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota, Collegeville, near St. Cloud, Minnesota, St. Cloud, built and began operating the first station in the network, KSJR-FM (90.1), in January 1967 in radio, 1967. By 1968, however, it was obvious that there weren't enough listeners in the i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |