KARP-FM

KARP-FM broadcasts a full-service country music format to the greater Glencoe, Minnesota, area.{{cite web |work=Arbitron |url=http://www.arbitron.com/radio_stations/station_information.htm |title=Station Information Profile |access-date=July 5, 2009}} In addition to its usual music programming, the station airs local news, weather bulletins, high school football, and community affairs programming. KARP-FM airs Major League Baseball games as a member of the Minnesota Twins Radio Network.{{cite web |publisher=The Official Site of the Minnesota Twins |title=Twins Radio Network |url=http://mlb.mlb.com/min/schedule/trn.jsp |access-date=July 5, 2009}}{{cite news |first=Karen |last=Youso |work=Minneapolis Star-Tribune |title=Fixit: Tips for a Twins fan who loses radio signal |url=http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/homegarden/11311206.html |date=June 19, 2007 |access-date=July 5, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081010094154/http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/homegarden/11311206.html |archive-date=October 10, 2008 |url-status=dead }}

The station began licensed operation with 3,000 watts of effective radiated power at 107.1 MHz on June 6, 1968, as KDUZ-FM, a sister station to KDUZ (1260 AM).{{cite book |title=Broadcasting Yearbook 1979 |date=1979 |chapter=Directory of Radio Stations in the United States and Canada |publisher=Broadcasting Publications, Inc |location=Washington, DC |page=C-117}} Because KDUZ was a daytimer, able to broadcast only from sunrise to sunset, KDUZ-FM operated as a simulcast during the day then continued the mix of middle of the road and country music on its own the rest of the night and overnight.

KDUZ-FM was launched under the ownership of the North American Broadcasting Company, part of the Tedesco Group, under company president Albert S. Tedesco.{{cite book |title=Broadcasting Yearbook 1969 |date=1969 |page=B-91 |chapter=The Facilities of Radio |publisher=Broadcasting Publications, Inc |location=Washington, DC}} Other key staffers included general manager and news director Heinz R. Fruck, chief engineer Darrell Gander, and program director. These positions would remain stable through the end of the 1970s, with the exception of the program director slot which saw at least four people hold the position in that decade.

On February 7, 1986, the station had the Federal Communications Commission change its call sign to KKJR.{{cite web |title=Call Sign History |url=http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=49139&Callsign=KARP |work=FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database |access-date=July 5, 2009}}

After a successful petition for rule making in 1997,{{cite web |publisher=Federal Communications Commission |title=Report and Order (MM Docket No. 97-114) |url=http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Mass_Media/Orders/1997/da972472.txt |date=December 5, 1997}} KKJR filed an application with the FCC in April 1998 seeking permission to change the height of its broadcast tower, the antenna's height above average terrain, the location of its transmitter, the station's class from A to C3, and its broadcast frequency from 107.1 to 106.9 MHz.{{cite web |publisher=FCC Media Bureau |title=Application Search Details (BPH-19980420IF) |url=http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=266016 |date=October 8, 1998}} The station also sought to change its community of license from Hutchinson to Dassel, Minnesota.{{cite news |work=Upper Midwest Broadcasting |title=News Archive: March 1999 |url=http://www.northpine.com/broadcast/archive/news0399.htm |date=March 1999}} The FCC granted the station a construction permit to make these changes on October 8, 1998.

The station made the switch to the new facility and frequency, operating under program test authority, in March 1999. With the changes came a flip from country music to a satellite-fed hot adult contemporary music format branded as "The Flame".{{citation |work=Minneapolis Star Tribune |title=State's rural radio stations breathe C&W |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-62567553.html |date=October 12, 1998 |access-date=July 5, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026060641/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-62567553.html |archive-date=October 26, 2012 |url-status=dead }} The station received its license to cover these changes on July 6, 1999.{{cite web |publisher=FCC Media Bureau |title=Application Search Details (BLH-19990405KB) |url=http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=283569 |date=July 6, 1999}}

In February 2000, North American Broadcasting Company, Inc., reached an agreement to sell this station and sister station KDUZ (1260 AM) to Iowa City Broadcasting Company, Inc., for a reported sale price of $2 million.{{cite news |work=Broadcasting & Cable |title=Changing Hands |url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-27559138_ITM |date=February 28, 2000}} The deal was approved by the FCC on March 22, 2000, and the transaction was consummated on March 31, 2000.{{cite web |publisher=FCC Media Bureau |title=Application Search Details (BAL-20000208AAE) |url=http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=432650 |date=March 31, 2000}} At the time of the sale, KKJR was playing a country music format. The new owners had the call sign changed to KARP-FM on June 15, 2000.

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• [http://www.karpradio.com/ KARP-FM official website]

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