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KFJM

Grand Forks, North Dakota
Broadcast area	Grand Forks, North Dakota
Frequency	90.7 MHz
Branding	Prairie Public Radio
Programming
Format	College/Public; Adult album alternative
Affiliations	Prairie Public Radio, NPR
Ownership
Owner	Prairie Public Radio (Prairie Public Broadcasting, Inc.)
Sister stations	KUND-FM
History
First air date	1995
Former call signs	KFJY (1995–1997)
Technical information
Facility ID	69406
Class	A
ERP	4,000 watts
HAAT	34 meters
Links
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	www.prairiepublic.org

KFJM (90.7 FM) is a public radio station in Grand Forks, North Dakota airing an adult album alternative format with news in the mornings, jazz in the late evenings and blues and folk on the weekends. It carries programs from NPR and Public Radio International. KFJM shares its coverage area with Minnesota Public Radio outlets KNTN and KQMN, both licensed to Thief River Falls, Minnesota. This makes Grand Forks one of the smallest markets with competing NPR stations.

History

KFJY

KFJM signed on in 1995 as KFJY on 90.7 MHz. It was the University of North Dakota's third radio station, joining the original KFJM, an AM station dating back to 1923, and KFJM-FM on 89.3 MHz, which had been established in 1976. KFJY simulcast KFJM with an adult album alternative (AAA) format and jazz overnight. During April 1997, both stations went off the air as the floodwaters went through the transmitter site.

KFJM

On August 15, 1997, all three University of North Dakota stations changed call signs. KFJY inherited the historic KFJM call letters, while the original KFJM became KUND and KFJM-FM on 89.3 MHz became KUND-FM.

On July 31, 2002, KUND and KFJM went off the air due to shortages from public funding, although KUND-FM continued to be operated by Prairie Public Radio. The stations signed back on on August 6, 2002 with its AAA format featuring the long running "Into the Music with Mike Olson" along with NPR's The World Cafe with David Dye, American Routes, and Morning Edition from NPR.

KUND was sold to Real Presence Radio, a Roman Catholic organization, in 2004, which changed that station's call letters to KWTL. The sale financed a transmitter move for KFJM from the University of North Dakota campus to a tower located in the Grand Forks industrial park, which was completed on August 22, 2006.

In 2006, KDSU 91.9 FM in Fargo began simulcasting some of KFJM's programming, including "Into the Music with Mike Olson" and The World Cafe with David Dye during the midday. KPPR 89.5 FM of Williston was added to the network in 2011 as Prairie Public moved the news and classical programming to new station KPPW 88.7.

In September 2018, KFJM, along with KUND-FM, was sold by the University of North Dakota to Prairie Public Radio.

References

1. "New or Modified Call Signs", "Mass Media Bureau Call Sign Actions" (Report No. 312, August 15, 1997).
2. "Radio Will Cease Operations On July 31" by Charles Kupchella, University Newsletter, Vol 39 No. 30, June 14, 2002.
3. "Station Sales Week Of 9/14: UND Exits Radio" by Lance Venta, September 14, 2018 (radioinsight.com)

External links

• KFJM website

• Facility details for Facility ID 69406 (KFJM) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
• KFJM in Nielsen Audio's FM station database

47°54′18″N 97°06′54″W / 47.905°N 97.115°W / 47.905; -97.115

• Radio stations in Grand Forks, North Dakota
• Prairie Public Radio
• Adult album alternative radio stations in the United States
• NPR member stations
• Radio stations established in 1995
• Thief River Falls, Minnesota