WCMP-FM (100.9
MHz
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, "Cool Country 100.9 FM") is a
radio station
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licensed
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to serve
Pine City, Minnesota
Pine City is a city in and the county seat of Pine County, in east central Minnesota, United States. The population was 3,130 at the 2020 census. A portion of the city is located on the Mille Lacs Indian Reservation. Founded as a railway town, ...
. It airs a
country music
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format.
It is owned by Alan R. Quarnstrom, through licensee Q Media Properties, and has studios at 15429 Pokegama Lake Rd. This facility is shared with sister station
WCMP.
The station was assigned the WCMP-FM call letters by the
Federal Communications Commission
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on August 9,
1979
Events
January
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,
originally at 92.1 FM.
Ownership
In July 2001, Quarnstrom Media Group LLC (Alan R. Quarnstrom, president) agreed to purchase WCMP and WCMP-FM from Pine City Broadcasting Co. Inc., for a reported sale price of $1.25 million. The deal was approved by the FCC on August 23, 2001, and consummated on September 4, 2001.
In June 2007,
Red Rock Radio Corp. (Romeo "Ro" Grignon, president) reached an agreement to purchase WCMP and WCMP-FM from Alan Quarnstrom for a reported sale price of $1.6 million. The deal was approved by the FCC on July 20, 2007, and consummated on August 1, 2007.
On September 16, 2016, Red Rock Radio announced that it would sell WCMP and WCMP-FM to Q Media Properties, putting the stations back under the control of Alan Quarnstrom;
the sale was completed on November 30, 2016 at a purchase price of $300,000.
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