KXLG (99.1 FM) is a radio station serving the Watertown, South Dakota area ( licensed to serve Milbank, South Dakota). The station is owned by TMRG Broadcasting, LLC. It airs soft adult contemporary music to fill time between local business advertising features. The advertising features often include live on-site broadcasts or telephone "interviews" with local business operators.

History

The station signed on in 1981 originally serving the

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area. It most recently had a country format as KZNC ''Kissin Country 99''. In December 2003, Dakota Communications Ltd. (Duane Butt, president) reached an agreement to acquire this station and

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from Three Eagles Communications as part of a two-station deal for a reported $400,000. Dakota Communications has operated Huron's other two licensed radio stations, KOKK and KORN-FM, since 1975. A group of long-time Watertown area radio veterans acquired this license to form a new station in 2009. The station was assigned the KXLG call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on April 14 of that year. In September 2009, the station was moved to Watertown, South Dakota ( licensed to

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) and flipped to the current adult contemporary/local advertising feature format. From 2009 to 2014, KXLG broadcast from the Old Post Office, a historic building in Watertown. On April 1, 2012 the license was transferred to TMRG Broadcasting, LLC. Comedian Timmy Williams joined KXLG as an announcer in 2015.

References

External links

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Old KXLG website
* {{Adult Contemporary Radio Stations in South Dakota XLG Soft adult contemporary radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 1975