{{Short description, American radio broadcasting company
Tri-County Broadcasting is a radio broadcasting company located in Sauk Rapids, Minnesota. It was founded by Herbert M. Hoppe, long time local radio broadcaster who started out building small AM stations. The stations serve the St. Cloud, Minnesota regional market.
Tri-County Broadcasting currently operates six radio stations in the area:
* WXYG AM 540 / K232GA FM 94.3 "Album Rock 540 The Goat" -
Album Rock
Album-oriented rock (AOR, originally called album-oriented radio) is an FM broadcasting, FM radio format created in the United States in the late 1960s that focuses on the full repertoire of Rock music, rock albums and is currently associated ...
Sports Radio
Sports radio (or sports talk radio) is a radio format devoted entirely to discussion and broadcasting of sport, sporting events. A widespread programming genre that has a narrow audience appeal, sports radio is characterized by an often-low comed ...
* WVAL AM 800 / W272EG FM 102.3 "AM 800 WVAL" - Classic Country
* WMIN AM 1010 / W266DT FM 101.1 "Uptown 1010" -
Adult Standards
Adult standards (also sometimes known as the nostalgia or Big Band format) is a North American radio format heard primarily on AM or class A FM stations.
Adult standards started in the 1950s and is aimed at "mature" adults, meaning mainly tho ...
Active Rock
Active rock is a radio format used by many commercial radio stations across the United States and Canada. Active rock stations play a balance of new hard rock songs with valued classic rock favorites, normally with an emphasis on the harder edge o ...
* WHMH-HD2 FM 101.7 / W297BO FM 107.3 "Album Rock 540 The Goat" -
Album Rock
Album-oriented rock (AOR, originally called album-oriented radio) is an FM broadcasting, FM radio format created in the United States in the late 1960s that focuses on the full repertoire of Rock music, rock albums and is currently associated ...
( WXYG simulcast)
* WHMH-HD3 FM 101.7 / W293CS FM 106.5 "The Point" -
Alternative Rock
Alternative rock (also known as alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a category of rock music that evolved from the independent music underground of the 1970s. Alternative rock acts achieved mainstream success in the 1990s w ...
* WHMH-HD4 FM 101.7 / W266DT FM 101.1 "Uptown 1010" -
Adult Standards
Adult standards (also sometimes known as the nostalgia or Big Band format) is a North American radio format heard primarily on AM or class A FM stations.
Adult standards started in the 1950s and is aimed at "mature" adults, meaning mainly tho ...
simulcast
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All the stations are located at "The Red House", 1010 2nd Street North in Sauk Rapids, Minnesota. All the AM transmitters and towers share a site east of the studios, northeast of Highway 10 and Golden Spike Road. WHMH's tower is behind the studio, shared with translators for WXYG and WHMH-HD3.