KFJM (90.7 FM) is a

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station in

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airing an

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format with news in the mornings, jazz in the late evenings and blues and folk on the weekends. It carries programs from

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and Public Radio International. KFJM shares its coverage area with

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outlets KNTN and KQMN, both licensed to

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. This makes Grand Forks one of the smallest markets with competing NPR stations.

History

KFJY

KFJM signed on in 1995 as KFJY on 90.7 MHz. It was the

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's third radio station, joining the original KFJM, an AM station dating back to 1923, and KFJM-FM on 89.3 MHz, which had been established in 1976. KFJY simulcast KFJM with an

(AAA) format and jazz overnight. During April 1997, both stations went off the air as the floodwaters went through the transmitter site.

KFJM

On August 15, 1997, all three University of North Dakota stations changed call signs. KFJY inherited the historic KFJM call letters, while the original KFJM became

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and KFJM-FM on 89.3 MHz became KUND-FM. On July 31, 2002, KUND and KFJM went off the air due to shortages from public funding, although KUND-FM continued to be operated by Prairie Public Radio. The stations signed back on on August 6, 2002 with its AAA format featuring the long running "Into the Music with Mike Olson" along with NPR's '' The World Cafe with David Dye'', ''

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'', and Morning Edition from

. KUND was sold to Real Presence Radio, a

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organization, in 2004, which changed that station's call letters to

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. The sale financed a transmitter move for KFJM from the University of North Dakota campus to a tower located in the Grand Forks

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, which was completed on August 22, 2006. In 2006,

KDSU KDSU (91.9 FM) is a radio station licensed to Fargo, North Dakota. The station is owned by North Dakota State University, but is operated by Prairie Public Radio. It airs NPR news and talk programming for most of the day, but simulcasts KFJM's ' ...

91.9 FM in Fargo began

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ing some of KFJM's programming, including "Into the Music with Mike Olson" and '' The World Cafe with David Dye'' during the midday. KPPR 89.5 FM of Williston was added to the network in 2011 as Prairie Public moved the news and classical programming to new station KPPW 88.7. In September 2018, KFJM, along with KUND-FM, was sold by the University of North Dakota to

Prairie Public Radio Prairie Public is a network of ten North Dakota radio stations. It is a service of Prairie Public Broadcasting, in association with North Dakota State University in Fargo. Prairie Public maintains active studios in Grand Forks, Fargo, and Bism ...

."Station Sales Week Of 9/14: UND Exits Radio"
by Lance Venta, September 14, 2018 (radioinsight.com)

References

External links

KFJM website
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