Red River Broadcasting

{{Short description|American television and radio broadcast company}}

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Red River Broadcasting was a television broadcasting company based in Fargo, North Dakota. It operated Fox affiliates in the Fargo, North Dakota and Duluth, MinnesotaSuperior, Wisconsin television markets.

Curtis Squire, Inc., a holding company in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, owned 100% of Red River Broadcasting. The company, which formerly owned Regis Corporation, is owned by Anita, Bill, David, Drew, and James Kunin.{{cite web |title=Ownership Structure Exhibit - Red River Broadcast Co. LLC (Feb. 2018) |url=https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/api/download/attachment/25076f9161d979950161dd1331db14b5 |publisher=Federal Communications Commission |accessdate=7 October 2019 |format=PDF |date=28 February 2018}} Kathy Lau is the COO.{{cite web |title=Red River Broadcasting's COO Named in Top List of Women in Business |url=https://www.kvrr.com/2017/02/28/red-river-broadcastings-coo-named-top-list-women-business/ |website=KVRR Local News |accessdate=7 October 2019 |date=28 February 2017}}

In addition to television stations, Red River Broadcasting once operated radio stations through a sister company named Red Rock Radio. At its height, Red Rock Radio owned a total of 25 stations in Minnesota and Wisconsin.{{cite web |title=Broadcasting News-May 2017 |url=http://www.northpine.com/broadcast/archive/news0517.html |website=Upper Midwest Broadcasting |accessdate=7 October 2019 |date=3 May 2017}} However, following the death of Myron Kunin in 2013, his surviving family members decided to liquidate his broadcasting assets and sold the stations to various buyers.{{cite news |last1=Brochu |first1=Ron |title=The big radio reshuffle |url=http://www.businessnorth.com/businessnorth_exclusives/the-big-radio-reshuffle/article_33b68d84-ce10-11e7-94c6-c7f549e653b7.html |accessdate=7 October 2019 |work=BusinessNorth |date=20 November 2017 |language=en}}

Final properties

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! City of license/Market

! Station

! Channel
TV (RF)

! Years Owned

! Network affiliation

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| Duluth, Minnesota - Superior, Wisconsin

KQDS-TV21 (17)1998-2024

| Fox

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| Fargo, North Dakota

KVRR15 (19)1983-2024

| Fox

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| Jamestown, North Dakota

KJRR
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7 (7)1988-2024

| Fox

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| Pembina, North Dakota

KNRR
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12 (12)1986-2024

| Fox

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| Thief River Falls, Minnesota -
Grand Forks, North Dakota

KBRR
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10 (10)1985-2024Fox

Former properties

=Television=

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! City of license/Market

! Station

! Channel
TV (RF)

! Years owned

! Current status

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| Sioux Falls, South Dakota

KDLT-TV46 (21)1994–2019NBC affiliate owned by Gray Television
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| Mitchell, South Dakota

KDLV-TV
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5 (26)1997–2019NBC affiliate owned by Gray Television

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