KSNR

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KSNR
City of license	Thief River Falls, Minnesota
Broadcast area	Grand Forks-East Grand Forks
Branding	100.3 Cat Country
Slogan	Today's Country and Your All Time Favorites
Frequency	100.3 FM (MHz)
First air date	1983
Format	Commercial; Country
ERP	100,000 watts
HAAT	172 m
Class	C1
Owner	Clear Channel (Citicasters Licenses, L.P.)
Sister stations	KJKJ, KKXL, KKXL-FM, KQHT, KSNR
Webcast	Listen Live!
Website	http://www.thecatfm.com/

KSNR (100.3 FM, "100.3 Cat Country") is a radio station broadcasting a country format. Licensed to Thief River Falls, Minnesota, it serves the Grand Forks, North Dakota metropolitan area. It first began broadcasting in 1983. The station is currently owned by Clear Channel Communications.

The station also broadcasts play-by-play coverage of North Dakota men's and women's basketball home games. 100.3 Cat Country competes with Leighton Broadcasting's KYCK.

[edit] History

KSNR signed on in 1983 serving Thief River Falls, Minnesota with an oldies format concentrating on 50s and 60s "Golden Oldies" format. The station attracted listeners in Grand Forks, North Dakota, since the signal could be heard on most radios and KSNR was the only oldies station in the area.

KSNR later became "Kool 100.3", and began playing 1970s era music, and moved its studios to Grand Forks after being sold. KSNR also played Christmas music from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas Day annually until the format change in 2005. In 2000, Clear Channel Communications bought out KSNR and several other stations, and the format was changed to play 1960s and 1970s era music. It also became the flagship station for University of North Dakota "Fighting Sioux" basketball play-by-play broadcasts.

Kool 100.3 switched to country music as "Cat Country" in October, 2005, competing with Leighton Broadcasting's heritage country station, 97 KYCK and classic country station KNOX-FM "Rooster 94.7". In 2006, co-owned classic hits (a mixture of oldies and classic rock formats) station KQHT "96.1 The Fox" began shifting towards to an oldies format.

[edit] External links

• 100.3 Cat Country website
• UND Fighting Sioux game broadcast info
• Query the FCC's FM station database for KSNR
• Radio Locator information on KSNR

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