KCMP

KCMP (89.3 <a href="/facts/FM_band/524k5ptB">FM</a>, 89.3 the Current) is a radio station owned by <a href="/facts/Minnesota_Public_Radio/zTAzGD9S">Minnesota Public Radio</a> (MPR) that broadcasts an <a href="/facts/Adult_album_alternative/PKw7mdwh">adult album alternative</a> (AAA) music format including a significant rotation of songs by local artists. Licensed to <a href="/facts/Northfield,_Minnesota/lAgjWwUc">Northfield, Minnesota</a>, and covering the Minneapolis-St. Paul market, the station's studios are located at the MPR Broadcast Center on Cedar Street in <a href="/facts/Downtown_St._Paul/S214QGjK">downtown St. Paul</a>, while its transmitter is located atop the Vermillion Highlands near <a href="/facts/Coates,_Minnesota/xmQzJTtF">Coates</a>. The Current is also broadcast on stations in Rochester, Duluth-Superior, Pasadena-Los Angeles, translators around Minnesota, and online.
The Current, which has been broadcasting its AAA format since 2004, debuted after MPR purchased WCAL-FM, the radio station of <a href="/facts/St._Olaf_College/u5C6YxLE">St. Olaf College</a> in Northfield, in 2004. St. Olaf had put WCAL-FM on the air in 1968 as an extension of <a href="/facts/WCAL_(Minnesota)/ultEvllM">WCAL</a>, a part-time AM station established in 1922 and eventually shut down in 1991.

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