KFGM-FM (101.5 FM) is a

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licensed to serve

Frenchtown, Montana Frenchtown is a census-designated place (CDP) in Missoula County, Montana, United States. It is part of the 'Missoula, Montana Metropolitan Statistical Area'. The population was 1,825 at the 2010 census, an increase from its population of 883 i ...

. The station is owned by a nonprofit, Missoula Community Radio, with studios in the Missoula Public Library and a transmitter on Mount Dean Stone.

History

The station signed on in 2007 as KXGZ "Grizz Country 101.5", a

country music Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...

format with added coverage of

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athletics simulcast with KGVO (1290 AM). The station was assigned the KVWE call letters by the

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on March 25, 2009, when the station changed to adult contemporary as "The View". This was dropped on March 1, 2012, when the station changed to simulcasting KGVO's news-talk format and adopted the call sign KGVO-FM. The station changed its call sign to KAMM-FM on December 15, 2016, in a prelude to a format flip: on February 2, 2017, KGVO's FM simulcast moved to translator 98.3 K252FP and KLYQ on February 2 as the renamed KAMM-FM flipped to

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as "Alt 101.5". On June 17, 2022, owner

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announced that it would move the "Alternative Missoula" branding to 95.7 K239AP in Missoula—fed by

KGGL KGGL (93.3 FM, "Eagle 93.3") is a commercial radio station in Missoula, Montana, airing a country music format. It is owned by Townsquare Media. History KDXT On October 15, 1975, Rex Jensen filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ...

's third HD Radio sub-channel—as KAMM-FM would be donated to Missoula Community Radio, which moved its programming from 105.5 KFGM-LP. The donation was made as part of required divestitures for Townsquare's acquisition of Cherry Creek Media. KFGM-LP had begun broadcasting on January 1, 2017, and moved into a space at the Missoula Public Library, shared with Missoula Community Access Television, simultaneous with the frequency change; MCR had been identified because a Townsquare representative and one of KFGM's founders both had kids on the same lacrosse team.

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KVWE tower photos
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{{Missoula, Montana FGM-FM Community radio stations in the United States Missoula County, Montana Radio stations established in 2007 2007 establishments in Montana