KMSC-FM

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KMSC is also the call letters for a student run radio station at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa, known as "Fusion 88.3." The station offers Siouxland's 100,000 residents a blend of cutting edge music and artists. The station's 24-hour broadcast day also includes specialty programming, news and weather updates.

Morningside College student radio station KMSC FM 88.3 received the Eric Sevareid Award for first place in the category of student radio play-by-play at the Northwest Broadcast News Association (NBNA) Midwest Journalism Conference held March 31 and April 1 at Minneapolis, Minn. KMSC received the award for its football broadcast of Morningside’s 35-13 victory against Hastings College on Oct. 29. Casey Gibbs, a senior from Garnavillo, Iowa, and former student Josh Creekmore of Hartington, Neb., were the student broadcasters

KMSC 88.3 is headed up by Morningside Professor Mark Heistad, formerly of Minnesota Public Radio Heistad also worked at KUNI/KHKE in Cedar Falls, Iowa, and was a frequent contributor to National Public Radio's Morning Edition and All Things Considered.

KMSC went on the air in April, 1978 as a “Class D” non-commercial/educational FM station operating at 88.3 megahertz with a power of 10 watts. KMSC is actually a revival of a student-built station with the call letters KFMR that broadcast from Morningside between 1923 and 1928. KFMR was among the earliest educational stations in the country (the very first educational stations at the Universities of Minnesota and Wisconsin went on the air in 1922).Not much else is known about KFMR, though an entry in one Morningside yearbook of the 1920s does demand that all classroom lectures be broadcast over the station so that students could “attend class” while staying in bed. Going back a bit further in history, the Morningside archives contain a few references to a “Marconi station” at Morningside built in the nineteen-teens by some physics students. This was a pre-broadcast radio station capable only of sending Morse code signals. The archives are silent on how this station was used.