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KARP-FM (106.9 FM, "Hit 106") is a
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to serve
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, United States. The station, which began broadcasting in 1968, is currently owned by Iowa City Broadcasting Company.


Programming

KARP-FM broadcasts a full-service
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format to the greater
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, area. In addition to its usual music programming, the station airs
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, weather bulletins,
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, and community affairs programming. KARP-FM airs
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games as a member of the
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Radio Network.


History


KDUZ-FM

The station began licensed operation with 3,000
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s of
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at 107.1
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on June 6, 1968, as KDUZ-FM, a
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to KDUZ (1260 AM). Because KDUZ was a
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, able to broadcast only from sunrise to sunset, KDUZ-FM operated as a
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during the day then continued the mix of middle of the road and
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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. Other key staffers included
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and
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Heinz R. Fruck,
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Darrell Gander, and
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. 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.


KKJR

On February 7, 1986, the station had the
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change its
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to KKJR. After a successful petition for rule making in 1997, KKJR filed an application with the FCC in April 1998 seeking permission to change the height of its broadcast tower, the antenna's
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, the location of its transmitter, the station's class from A to C3, and its broadcast frequency from 107.1 to 106.9
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. The station also sought to change its
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from Hutchinson to
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. The FCC granted the station a
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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
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to a satellite-fed
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music format branded as "The Flame". The station received its license to cover these changes on July 6, 1999.


KARP-FM

In February 2000, North American Broadcasting Company, Inc., reached an agreement to sell this station and
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KDUZ (1260 AM) to Iowa City Broadcasting Company, Inc., for a reported sale price of $2 million. The deal was approved by the FCC on March 22, 2000, and the transaction was consummated on March 31, 2000. At the time of the sale, KKJR was playing a
country music Country (also called country and western) is a popular music, music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and American southwest, the Southwest. First produced in the 1920s, country music is p ...
format. The new owners had the call sign changed to KARP-FM on June 15, 2000.


References


External links


KARP-FM official website
{{Country Radio Stations in Minnesota Radio stations in Minnesota Country radio stations in the United States Meeker County, Minnesota Radio stations established in 1968