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, Minnesota–Superior, 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 ! Years Owned ! Network affiliation | ||||
style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | KQDS-TV | 21 (17) | 1998-2024
| Fox | |
style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | KVRR | 15 (19) | 1983-2024
| Fox | |
style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | KJRR {{small|(Satellite of KVRR)}} | 7 (7) | 1988-2024
| Fox | |
style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | KNRR {{small|(Satellite of KVRR)}} | 12 (12) | 1986-2024
| Fox | |
style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | KBRR {{small|(Satellite of KVRR)}} | 10 (10) | 1985-2024 | Fox |
Former properties
=Television=
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! City of license/Market ! Station ! Years owned ! Current status | ||||
style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | KDLT-TV | 46 (21) | 1994–2019 | NBC affiliate owned by Gray Television |
style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | KDLV-TV {{small|(Satellite of KDLT-TV)}} | 5 (26) | 1997–2019 | NBC affiliate owned by Gray Television |
=Radio=
====Minnesota====
- KQDS, Duluth (now KJOQ)
- KQDS-FM, Duluth
- KAOD, Babbitt (simulcast KQDS-FM, now KZJZ)
- KBAJ, Deer River (simulcast KQDS-FM)
- WXXZ, Grand Marais (simulcast KQDS-FM, later WFNX)
- WWAX, Hermantown (now WWPE-FM)
- KZIO, Two Harbors
- KGHS, International Falls
- KSDM, International Falls
- KGPZ, Coleraine (now WDKE)
- KRBT, Eveleth
- WEVE-FM, Eveleth
- KFGI, Crosby
- KLKS, Breezy Point
- WWWI, Baxter
- WWWI-FM, Pillager
- KKIN, Aitkin
- KKIN-FM, Aitkin
- WCMP, Pine City
- WCMP-FM, Pine City