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Red River Broadcasting was a television broadcasting company based in Fargo, North Dakota. It operated Fox affiliates in the Fargo, North Dakota and Duluth, Minnesota–Superior, Wisconsin television markets.
Curtis Squire, Inc., a holding company in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, owned 100% of Red River Broadcasting. The company, which formerly owned Regis Corporation, is owned by Anita, Bill, David, Drew, and James Kunin. Kathy Lau is the COO.
In addition to television stations, Red River Broadcasting once operated radio stations through a sister company named Red Rock Radio. At its height, Red Rock Radio owned a total of 25 stations in Minnesota and Wisconsin. However, following the death of Myron Kunin in 2013, his surviving family members decided to liquidate his broadcasting assets and sold the stations to various buyers.
Final properties
| City of license/Market | Station | Channel TV (RF) |
Years Owned | Network affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duluth, Minnesota - Superior, Wisconsin | KQDS-TV | 21 (17) | 1998-2024 | Fox |
| Fargo, North Dakota | KVRR | 15 (19) | 1983-2024 | Fox |
| Jamestown, North Dakota | KJRR (Satellite of KVRR) |
7 (7) | 1988-2024 | Fox |
| Pembina, North Dakota | KNRR (Satellite of KVRR) |
12 (12) | 1986-2024 | Fox |
| Thief River Falls, Minnesota - Grand Forks, North Dakota |
KBRR (Satellite of KVRR) |
10 (10) | 1985-2024 | Fox |
Former properties
Television
| City of license/Market | Station | Channel TV (RF) |
Years owned | Current status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sioux Falls, South Dakota | KDLT-TV | 46 (21) | 1994–2019 | NBC affiliate owned by Gray Television |
| Mitchell, South Dakota | KDLV-TV (Satellite of KDLT-TV) |
5 (26) | 1997–2019 | NBC affiliate owned by Gray Television |
Radio
Minnesota
- KQDS, Duluth (now KJOQ)
- KQDS-FM, Duluth
- KAOD, Babbitt (simulcast KQDS-FM, now KZJZ)
- KBAJ, Deer River (simulcast KQDS-FM)
- WXXZ, Grand Marais (simulcast KQDS-FM, later WFNX)
- WWAX, Hermantown (now WWPE-FM)
- KZIO, Two Harbors
- KGHS, International Falls
- KSDM, International Falls
- KGPZ, Coleraine (now WDKE)
- KRBT, Eveleth
- WEVE-FM, Eveleth
- KFGI, Crosby
- KLKS, Breezy Point
- WWWI, Baxter
- WWWI-FM, Pillager
- KKIN, Aitkin
- KKIN-FM, Aitkin
- WCMP, Pine City
- WCMP-FM, Pine City
Wisconsin
References
- "Ownership Structure Exhibit - Red River Broadcast Co. LLC (Feb. 2018)" (PDF). Federal Communications Commission. 28 February 2018. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
- "Red River Broadcasting's COO Named in Top List of Women in Business". KVRR Local News. 28 February 2017. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
- "Broadcasting News-May 2017". Upper Midwest Broadcasting. 3 May 2017. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
- Brochu, Ron (20 November 2017). "The big radio reshuffle". BusinessNorth. Retrieved 7 October 2019.