KQDX (106.3

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) is a radio station licensed to

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. The station serves the Hibbing area as a simulcast of

KQDS-FM KQDS-FM (94.9 Hertz, MHz, "95 KQDS") is a classic rock music formatted radio station located in Duluth, Minnesota. Established in 1976 as KAOH-FM, the station is owned by Midwest Communications, and follows a format similar to that of the wel ...

, a

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station in

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. KQDX is owned by

Midwest Communications Midwest Communications, Inc. is a Wausau, Wisconsin–based radio broadcasting company. It owns 82 radio stations located primarily within the Midwest United States, in Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, Il ...

. KQDX is part of a Midwest cluster of stations on the

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that also includes WMFG,

WNMT WNMT (650 AM) is a talk radio station in Hibbing, Minnesota. WNMT is owned by Midwest Communications. Midwest owns five radio stations on the Iron Range; KQDX, WMFG, WNMT, WTBX, and WUSZ. All five stations share the same studio location at 80 ...

WTBX WTBX (93.9 FM broadcasting, FM) is a U.S. radio station in Hibbing, Minnesota, serving the Iron Range region. The station is owned by Midwest Communications and airs a hybrid format of hot adult contemporary and modern adult contemporary. WTBX b ...

and

WUSZ WUSZ (99.9 Hertz, MHz "Radio USA") is a commercial radio, commercial FM radio station city of license, licensed to Virginia, Minnesota, and serving the Iron Range region. It is owned by Midwest Communications and it airs a country music, country ...

. All stations share the same studio location at 807 W. 37th Street, Hibbing.

History

The station went on the air as WMFG-FM, the FM sister station to WMFG (1240 AM), in 1971. It dropped the "-FM" suffix when the AM station became WGGR in 1983, but returned to the WMFG-FM call sign on August 5, 1987. WMFG-FM previously carried a classic hits format as "106.3 Classic Hits". On January 1, 2017, as the result of an acquisition by owner Midwest Communications, WMFG-FM flipped to classic rock as a simulcast of

.Red Rock Sales Lead to Multiple Flips in Northern Minnesota
/ref> On February 14, 2025, WMFG-FM changed its call sign to KQDX to match parent station KQDS-FM.

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* Classic rock radio stations in the United States Radio stations in Minnesota Radio stations established in 1971 1971 establishments in Minnesota Midwest Communications radio stations Hibbing, Minnesota {{Minnesota-radio-station-stub