KSJN (99.5 FM) is the flagship station of Minnesota Public Radio's classical music network, serving the Twin Cities region. Throughout the 1980s, 99.5 was best known as WLOL, a top-rated CHR station.
Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota built and began operating the first station in the network, KSJR (90.1 FM), in January 1967. In April the same year, KSJN went on the air in the Twin Cities area at 91.1 FM. The fledgling organizatio...
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KSJN (99.5 FM) is the flagship station of Minnesota Public Radio's classical music network, serving the Twin Cities region. Throughout the 1980s, 99.5 was best known as WLOL, a top-rated CHR station.
Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota built and began operating the first station in the network, KSJR (90.1 FM), in January 1967. In April the same year, KSJN went on the air in the Twin Cities area at 91.1 FM. The fledgling organization was initially known as Saint John's University Broadcasting, then as Minnesota Educational Radio, and finally as Minnesota Public Radio.
In 1969 and 1970, MPR assisted in the formation of National Public Radio and was a founding member of the organization. Four years later, in 1974, the network began live broadcasting of Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion, one of the best-known programs on American public radio.
MPR established a dedicated news/talk service in 1980, when it purchased WLOL (1330 AM) and established KSJN's AM signal....
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