KNUJ-FM (107.3
FM) is a radio station in
Sleepy Eye, Minnesota
Sleepy Eye is a small city in rural Brown County, Minnesota, United States. The city is named after a famed local Dakota chief from the 1800s. The population was 3,599 at the 2010 census.
History
Sleepy Eye took its name from Sleepy Eye La ...
. The station airs a
classic hits
Classic hits is a radio format which generally includes songs from the top 40 music charts from the late 1960s to the early 2000s, with music from the 1980s serving as the core of the format. Music that was popularized by MTV in the early 1980 ...
format, as "SAM 107.3", and is owned by James Ingstad. KNUJ also has an
AM sister station,
KNUJ 860 AM.
History
*''See also
KNUJ''
The KNUJ-FM call letters were originally on
93.1 FM.
KNUJ-FM signed on in June 1995, as "BRaT 107.3." The 4,000-watt station licensed to nearby
Sleepy Eye played
adult contemporary
Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quie ...
music. Both stations simulcast from 6–8:30 am, Monday through Friday, and shorter hours on Saturday. A month later,
KNSG in
Springfield, Minnesota
Springfield is a city in Brown County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 2,152 at the 2010 census.
U.S. Highway 14 serves as a main route in the community. This location is in the middle of some of Minnesota's most productive far ...
signed on the air.
On August 14, 1998,
Cumulus Broadcasting
Cumulus Media, Inc. is an American broadcasting company and is the third largest owner and operator of AM and FM radio stations in the United States behind Audacy and iHeartMedia. As of June 2019, Cumulus lists ownership of 428 stations in 87 ...
purchased many stations from Ingstad. Two years later, Cumulus turned around and sold some of the stations, including KNUJ and KNUJ-FM to
Clear Channel. The sale became effective on October 2, 2000.
Ingstad obtained the three stations again from Clear Channel in February 2003, as part of a trade for a station in
Bismarck, North Dakota. KNSG was spun off to Linder Radio.
KNUJ-FM changed its format to
adult hits in June 2005, picking up a satellite-fed syndicated format from
Westwood One
Westwood One is an American radio network owned by Cumulus Media. The company syndicates talk, music, and sports programming.
The company takes its name from an earlier network also named Westwood One, a company founded in 1978. The compan ...
, and becoming "SAM 107.3." After the shutdown of the Sam FM network, KNUJ shifted to classic hits during the Labor Day weekend of 2015.
Programming
Both KNUJ and KNUJ-FM simulcast a common morning show weekdays. KNUJ-FM also broadcasts a live local news show from Sleepy Eye following the show.
External links
KNUJ and KNUJ-FM
Radio stations in Minnesota
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