KDMC-FM (88.7 FM) is a

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licensed to

Van Buren, Missouri Van Buren is a city in Carter County, Missouri, United States. It is the county seat and largest city in Carter County. Van Buren was founded in 1833 as the county seat of Ripley County and was named after then Vice President of the United Stat ...

, United States. The station is currently owned by

Southeast Missouri State University Southeast Missouri State University (Southeast or SEMO) is a public university in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. In addition to the main campus, the university has four regional campuses offering full degree programs and a secondary campus housing t ...

and simulcasts its

KRCU KRCU (90.9 MHz) is a non-commercial, listener-supported, public radio station owned by Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau. It airs a radio format of news, talk, jazz and classical music. Programming is simulcast on two ot ...

public radio station based in

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History

The

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issued a

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for the station on May 29, 1998. The station was assigned the KBIY

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on August 10, 1998, and received its license to cover on June 26, 2001. Under its original owner, the New Life Evangelistic Center, KBIY was part of the Here's Help Network of

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programming. New Life sold the station to

for $45,000 in 2019; the station was to be used to bring

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to the

Poplar Bluff Poplar Bluff is a city in Butler County in southeastern Missouri, United States. It is the county seat of Butler County and is known as "The Gateway to the Ozarks" among other names. The population was 16,225 at the 2020 census. The Poplar Bluf ...

area, with the transmitter to be moved to Elsinore, Missouri. Under new call letters KDMC-FM—previously associated with the former student-run station at the Cape Girardeau campus—the station returned to the air on May 14, 2020. On April 1, 2021, the FCC granted KDMC a frequency change from 91.3 FM to 88.7 FM and moved its transmitter to

Ellsinore, Missouri Ellsinore is a town in Carter County, Missouri, United States. The 2020 U.S. Census showed Ellsinore with a population of 416. History The site of the town of Ellsinore was originally patented on April 15, 1857, by Robert Patterson just two yea ...

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