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| Broadcast area | Grand Forks, North Dakota |
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| Frequency | 100.3MHz |
| Branding | 100.3 Cat Country |
| Programming | |
| Format | Country |
| Affiliations | Premiere Networks |
| Ownership | |
| Owner |
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| KJKJ,KKXL,KKXL-FM,KQHT | |
| History | |
First air date | 1976 |
Former call signs | KOSN (1976–1983) |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 73625 |
| Class | C1 |
| ERP | 100,000watts |
| HAAT | 172 meters (564 ft) |
| Links | |
Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen live (viaiHeartRadio) |
| Website | thecatfm.iheart.com |
KSNR (100.3FM, "100.3 Cat Country") is acommercialradio station serving theGrand Forks, North Dakota area broadcasting acountry music format.Licensed toFisher, Minnesota, KSNR first began broadcasting in 1976 under thecall signKOSN inThief River Falls. The station is currently owned byiHeartMedia. The station's main competitor isLeighton Broadcasting's97 KYCK (97.1 FM).
KSNR also broadcastsUniversity of North Dakota men's and women's basketball home games, while sister stationKQHT "96.1 The Fox" broadcastsUniversity of North Dakota men's ice hockey andfootball games as theflagship station, and sister stationKKXL-AM "1440 The Fan" broadcastsUniversity of North Dakota women's ice hockey.
The station began life at 99.3 FM as KOSN inThief River Falls, Minnesota in 1976. KOSN broadcast only 3,000 watts. The station changed call letters to KSNR in 1983 as it flipped to anoldies format, concentrating on 50s and 60s "Golden Oldies" format. After upgrading to 100,000 watts at 100.3 FM in 1987, the station attracted listeners inGrand Forks, North Dakota, since the signal could be heard on most radios and KSNR was the only oldies station in the area until 1990.
KSNR later became "Kool 100.3" in 1995 from studios in Grand Forks afterKNOX-FM flipped fromOldies as "Kool 94.7" toClassic Country as "Real Country 94.7", and KSNR as "Kool 100.3" also began playing 1970s era music after being sold. KSNR also playedChristmas music fromThanksgiving Day toChristmas Day annually until the format change in 2005. In 2000,Clear Channel Communications bought out KSNR and several other stations, and the format was changed to play 1960s and 1970s era music. It also became theflagship station forUniversity of North Dakota basketball play-by-play broadcasts.
Kool 100.3 switched tocountry music as "Cat Country" in October 2005, competing withLeighton Broadcasting'sheritage country stationKYCK andclassic country stationKNOX-FM "Rooster 94.7". In 2006, sister stationclassic rockKQHT "96.1 The Fox" began shifting towards to an updatedclassic hits version of the former "Kool 100.3"oldies format.
In 2005, KSNR changed itscity of license fromThief River Falls toFisher, which would allow it to move its transmitter tower closer toGrand Forks in the future.
In the fall of 2012, all local personalities were removed from Cat Country in favor ofBobby Bones Show in the morning andPremium Choice radio personalities in all other dayparts. The previous local morning show was moved to sister stationKQHT "96.1 The Fox", which carries an updatedclassic hits version of the former "Kool 100.3"oldies format. In 2016, Cat Country brought back some local personalities previously heard on the station.
On October 29, 2018, it was announced that, asiHeartMedia would lose its grandfathered ownership limits in theBrunswick and Grand Forks markets as part of its bankruptcy restructuring, the company would placeKSNR andWHFX into the newly formed Sun & Snow Station Trust, under the oversight of former Backyard Broadcasting CEO Barry Drake, as preparation for an eventual sale of the signals.[2] On December 23, 2020, iHeart filed to reclaim KSNR from the Sun & Snow Station Trust;[3] the re-assignment of the license was consummated on March 29, 2021.
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