Red River Broadcasting
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.[1] Kathy Lau is the COO.[2]
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.[3] 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.[4]
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.