NPR announces demise of (apparently) long-deleted public AM station

[dan.strassberg@att.net]

NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday opened today with the 
announcement of the demise of public radio stations KFJM 
and KFJM-FM Grand Forks ND, the victim of budget cuts at 
the U of North Dakota, which operated what the report 
suggested were "the stations," but what in recent years 
has apparently been only "the station." The FCC FM 
database lists a KFJM (FM) 90.7 in Grand Forks (2.4 kW 
at 47' AAT). No doubt, there once was a KFJM (AM), but 
there is none in the AM database and most likely has not 
been one for years. Probably, the University put out a 
news release that described the station's history, which 
includes broadcasts of polka and big-band music as well 
as farm reports, and someone at NPR misinterpreted the 
release to the effect that the AM station has been 
operating up to the present. Apparently not. 

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