Prairie Public's radio service is a network of ten radio frequencies inNorth Dakota. It is a service ofPrairie Public Broadcasting based inFargo.

Prairie Public maintains active studios in Fargo andBismarck. It is a member station ofNational Public Radio (NPR) and provides NPR news and programming, local and regional news, and two distinct music formats: the News and Classical network, and theadult album alternative formatted Roots, Rock, and Jazz network.

Prairie Public produces and broadcastsMain Street, a weekday interview show hosted by Ashley Thornberg and Craig Blumenshine,^[2][3]Dakota Datebook,Into the Music with Mike Olson,Prebys on Classics, andWhy?, hosted by UND philosophy professor Dr. Jack Weinstein.^[4] Prairie Public is also the distributor forListening to America with Clay Jenkinson.

Prairie Public offers news programming on weekday mornings and afternoons from its newsrooms in Bismarck and Fargo. It also airs news from NPR.

Prairie Public is a member station ofNational Public Radio, airing programs such asAll Things Considered, and also carries programming fromPublic Radio International (such asThe World) andAmerican Public Media, as well as fromPublic Radio Exchange (such asThis American Life).

Prairie Public's radio network offers two programming services. The primary News and Classical network originating fromKCND inBismarck is carried on most stations, and split into eastern and western schedules. Theadult album alternative formatted Roots, Rock, and Jazz network originating fromKFJM inGrand Forks has gradually expanded its programming to additional stations since its launch in 2002.KDSU inFargo carries a combination of both networks, airing Roots, Rock and Jazz programming when the rest of the main network airs classical music.

The primary network of Prairie Public airsclassical music, news, talk, and weekend specialty shows, includingjazz.

KFJM originates Prairie Public's second music format, a mixture ofadult album alternative,blues,folk, andjazz. The network is rebroadcast full-time on KPPR Williston and theHD-2 channel of Prairie Public's other full-power News and Classical stations.KDSU of Fargo broadcasts the network midday weekdays and overnights.^[5]

Prairie Public has 10 full power stations and 5 low-powertranslators broadcasting across North Dakota, northwest Minnesota, and eastern Montana.

Prairie Public's full power stations broadcastHD Radio signals, adding full-digital simulcasts of their analog channel, plus the Roots, Rock, and Jazz network on subchannel "HD-2" of the News and Classical stations.

Shaw Cable'sWinnipeg system carried Prairie Public's News and Classical service at 107.9 FM (viaKUND-FM), until Shaw discontinued FM distribution in 2012.^[6]

Prairie Public's News and Classical network is carried onMTS Ultimate TV acrossManitoba, on channel 733.^[7]

Prairie Public was established on February 1, 1999 as the North Dakota Public Radio network. It consisted of three partners — Prairie Public Broadcasting, the North Dakota State University, and the University of North Dakota^[8] — with the goal of providing a full public radio service to all of North Dakota.

At the time of North Dakota Public Radio's formation, the University of North Dakota operated three stations in Grand Forks:KUND (AM),KUND-FM (89.3 FM) which dated to 1976, andKFJM (90.7 FM) which started in 1995. KUND (AM) had been established, as KFJM, in 1923 as one of the first college radio stations in the United States. It left the network after it was sold in 2004. North Dakota State University's station, KDSU (91.9 FM) in Fargo dated to 1966. These stations were early members ofNPR, but this left western North Dakota without public radio.Prairie Public Television had broadened its mission to include radio in the late 1970s, and in 1981KCND inBismarck signed on as the first public radio station in the western part of the state, under the on-air name of Prairie Public Radio. Between 1981 and 1993, four more stations signed on.

On September 26, 2006, North Dakota Public Radio was renamed Prairie Public, chosen to achieve brand consistency with Prairie Public Broadcasting's television and other operations.^[9]

In 2009,KPPD signed on as a full-power station for the Devils Lake region, andHD Radio was rolled out to all Prairie Public full-power stations. In 2012,KPPW signed on as the new full-power News and Classical network station for Williston, with KPPR moving to the Roots, Rock, and Jazz network.^[10]

In September 2018, KFJM and KUND-FM were sold by the University of North Dakota to Prairie Public Broadcasting.^[11]

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