KUMM

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KUMM

City of license	Morris, Minnesota
Branding	The U90 Alternative
Frequency	89.7 MHz
Format	Alternative
ERP	225 watts
HAAT	17.0 meters
Class	A
Facility ID	69219
Transmitter Coordinates	45°35′20.00″N 95°54′22.00″W / 45.5888889, -95.9061111
Owner	University of Minnesota Morris
Website	kumm.org

KUMM (89.7 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Alternative format. Licensed to Morris, Minnesota, USA. The station is currently owned by University of Minnesota Morris.^[1]

The station is a member of Minnesota's Independent Public Radio network. Some disc jockeys do not pronounce the call sign on the air as it sounds like slang for sperm but many others don't mind and even enjoy declaring the call sign. Either way, the image of a sperm cell does appear in the station logo, and the station's student staff find many unique ways of alluding to the call sign, such as the yearly "HomeKUMMing" event. In past years, the station's t-shirt design included such ribald slogans as "The Only Station That Puts KUMM In Your Ear" and the more recent, and tamer, slogan is "KUMM: Sowing the Seeds of New Music Since 1972." You can listen to KUMM live on the internet at www.kumm.org

Students, faculty, and members of the Morris community comprise the DJ's at KUMM. Show format is left entirely up to the individual DJ's, but Top 40 songs from the last 10 years are not allowed in order to keep the station alternative.

Station Manager	From	To
Ben Leonard	1996	1997
Gina Mauss	fall 1997
Michael Heuer	spring 1998
Abe Welle	1998	1999
Bronwyn Gamble	1999	2001
Travis Ryder	2001	2003
Sara Bremer	Fall 2006
Ricky Noren	Spring 2007
Sarah Vig	2007