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KTCO (98.9 FM, "Kat Country 98.9") is a
radio station Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based rad ...
in
Duluth, Minnesota Duluth ( ) is a Port, port city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and the county seat of St. Louis County, Minnesota, St. Louis County. Located on Lake Superior in Minnesota's Arrowhead Region, the city is a hub for cargo shipping. The population ...
, airing 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. KTCO 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 ...
, which also owns
KDKE KDKE (102.5 FM, "Duke FM") is a classic country radio station located in Duluth, Minnesota (licensed to Superior, Wisconsin). KDKE is owned by Midwest Communications, which also owns WDSM, WDUL, KDAL, KDAL-FM and KTCO in Duluth. All the Dulu ...
,
WDSM WDSM (710 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Superior, Wisconsin, serving the Duluth-Superior area of Northeastern Minnesota and Northwestern Wisconsin. WDSM is owned and operated by Midwest Communications and broadcasts a sports ...
,
WDUL WDUL (970 Hertz, kHz) is a commercial broadcasting, commercial AM broadcasting, AM radio station city of license, licensed to Superior, Wisconsin. It airs a contemporary hit radio radio format, format and is owned and operated by Midwest Communi ...
, KDAL, and
KDAL-FM KDAL-FM (95.7 MHz, "My 95.7") is an American radio station in Duluth, Minnesota, airing an adult contemporary format. KDAL-FM is owned by Midwest Communications, which also owns KDKE, WDSM, WDUL, KDAL, and KTCO in Duluth. All the Duluth stati ...
in Duluth. All the Duluth stations share the same studio location at 11 East Superior St. Suite 380, downtown Duluth. From 1974 to 1994, this frequency respectively aired
Top 40 In the music industry, the Top 40 is a list of the 40 currently most popular songs in a particular genre. It is the best-selling or most frequently broadcast popular music. Record charts have traditionally consisted of a total of 40 songs. "To ...
,
soft rock Soft rock (also known as light rock or mellow rock) is a form of rock music that originated in the late 1960s in the United States and the United Kingdom which smoothed over the edges of singer-songwriter and pop rock, relying on simple, mel ...
, and
classic rock Classic rock is a radio format that developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s. In the United States, it comprises rock music ranging generally from the mid-1960s through the early-1990s, primarily focusing on comm ...
, as "99 WAKX." The station originally went on air in 1972 as a beautiful music station, KPIR-FM "Pier 99." Its main competitor is
Townsquare Media Townsquare Media, Inc. (formerly Regent Communications until 2010) is an American radio network and media company based in Purchase, New York. The company started in radio and expanded into digital media toward the end of the 2000s, starting wit ...
's
KKCB KKCB (105.1 FM, "B105") is a radio station in Duluth, Minnesota, owned by Townsquare Media, airing a country music format. The 105.1 frequency came into use in January 1966 when WWJC-FM launched. WWJC and its successor, WGGR, were primarily b ...
"B105".


External links


Kat Country 98.9 KTCO official website
* Country radio stations in the United States Radio stations in Duluth, Minnesota Radio stations established in 1974 Midwest Communications radio stations {{Minnesota-radio-station-stub