KBMX (107.7 FM, MIX 108) is a

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radio station serving

Duluth, Minnesota , settlement_type = City , nicknames = Twin Ports (with Superior), Zenith City , motto = , image_skyline = , image_caption = Clockwise from top: urban Duluth skyline; Minnesota ...

, and

Superior, Wisconsin , native_name_lang = oj , nickname = , total_type = , motto = , image_skyline = Tower Avenue.jpg , imagesize = , image_caption = Downtown Superior , ima ...

. It is owned by

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. The studios and offices are with its three other sister stations at 14 E. Central Entrance, on the west side of Duluth.

History

The station started out with a country format simulcasting

WUSZ WUSZ "Radio USA" (99.9 FM broadcasting, FM) is a U.S. radio station in Hibbing, Minnesota, serving the Iron Range region. The station airs country music, and is owned by Midwest Communications. Sister Stations Midwest also owns Seven radio statio ...

99.9 then became "Z-Rock" (classic rock) before switching to

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as "The Point". After becoming a

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station as ''Mix 108'' on April 1, 2002, the station gradually evolved to a format which is Top 40 (CHR) that it airs to this day. The station had aired ''

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'' on weekends. Surviving competition from full-fledged Top 40/CHR station WWAX "92.1 The Beat" (now "Sasquatch 92.1") briefly, and later falling between the pop music spectrum of full-fledged Top 40/CHR KDWZ (now KDKE "102.5 Duke FM") and full-fledged Hot AC WWAX (as "Nu 92") Mix 108 serves as the

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/ CHR station for Duluth-Superior area competing against AM 970

WDUL WDUL (970 AM) is a radio station licensed in Superior, Wisconsin. The station is owned and operated by Midwest Communications, which owns six stations in Duluth, Minnesota. All the Duluth stations share the same studio location at 11 East Superio ...

"Hot 98.1".

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