KQAD

KQAD
City of license	Luverne, Minnesota
Broadcast area	Luverne-Rock Rapids
Slogan	Lite Favorites
Frequency	800 kHz
First air date	March 1, 1971
Format	Adult Contemporary
Power	500 watts day 80 watts night
Class	D
Facility ID	39259
Transmitter coordinates	43°39′1.00″N 96°10′19.00″W / 43.6502778°N 96.1719444°W / 43.6502778; -96.1719444
Owner	Digity, LLC (Digity 3E License, LLC)
Sister stations	KLQL

KQAD (800 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an adult contemporary format. Licensed to Luverne, Minnesota, USA, the station serves the Luverne and Rock Rapids areas. The station is currently owned by Digity, LLC, through licensee Digity 3E License, LLC.^[1] The station play lite hits from the 1960s to the present. Ron Cote hosts the morning show, Bruce Thalhuber is the afternoon host and Andy Gott is on evenings. The station covers local news from Luverne and Rock Rapids, and covers Luverne Cardinal High School sports, with "the Voice Of The Cardinals", Bruce Thalhuber.

Founding and early history

In the late 1960s well-known local newspaperman, Al McIntosh, became aware of an application pending at the FCC to locate an AM radio station in Luverne. This application was initiated by the owner of a radio station in York, NE, so McIntosh convinced four other local businessmen, Mort Skewes, Warren Schoon, Rollie Swanson, and Dominic Lippi, to join forces and submit a competing application to the FCC. These two applications were mutually exclusive, and sat in the hands of the FCC for upwards of two years before local stakeholders accelerated the process.^[2] In the spring of 1968 Paul Hedberg, an experienced owner of another radio station in southern Minnesota, joined the five businessmen from Luverne, and together they entered negotiations with their competitor to withdraw his application with the FCC. Soon thereafter the FCC granted the six-member ownership group, now organized as Siouxland Broadcasting, the construction permit for KQAD-AM.^[3] At its inception KQAD broadcast a pop music format, and was affiliated with the ABC Radio Network.^[4]

Six months after the debut of KQAD-AM, its sister station KQAD-FM went on the air. KQAD-FM is now known as KLQL.^[5]

References

↑ "KQAD Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
↑ Paul C. Hedberg, The Time of My Life (Spirit Lake, IA: University of Okoboji Press, 2014), 97.
↑ Hedberg, The Time of My Life, 98-99.
↑ Hedberg, The Time of My Life, 100.
↑ Hedberg, The Time of My Life, 99.

External links

Query the FCC's AM station database for KQAD

Radio-Locator Information on KQAD

Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for KQAD

Radio stations in Southwest Minnesota (Worthington–Marshall)

By AM frequency	730 800 1050 1190 1400

By FM frequency	89.3 89.9 91.7 93.5 94.7 95.1 98.7 99.7 101.1 103.3 104.3 105.1 105.7 106.1 107.5

By callsign	KARL KARZ KISD KITN KJOE KKCK KKOJ KLOH KLQL KMHL KNSG KNSW KQAD KRGM KRSW KUSQ KUXX KWOA KZTP K277AI

Nearby radio markets Brookings Fort Dodge Mankato–New Ulm–St. Peter Sioux City Sioux Falls Watertown Willmar Yankton–Vermillion See also List of radio stations in Minnesota

Radio stations in the Sioux Falls, South Dakota market

By AM frequency	570 730 800 1000 1050 1140 1230 1270 1320 1520

By FM frequency	88.1 89.1 89.7 90.1 90.5 90.9 92.5 93.9 94.5 95.7 96.5 97.3 98.7 99.1 99.7 100.1 100.5 101.1 101.9 102.7 103.7 104.7 106.9 107.9

By callsign	KAUR KBAD-FM KCSD KDEZ KELO KELO-FM KELQ KIHK KIKN-FM KISD KKCK KKLS-FM KLOH KLQL KMXC KNWC KNWC-FM KQAD KQSF KRRO KRSD KSFS KSOO KSOO-FM KSOU-FM KTWB KUSD KVCF KWOA KWSN KXRB KYBB KZOY WNAX

Nearby radio markets Brookings Huron–Mitchell Northeast Nebraska Omaha–Council Bluffs Sioux City SW Minnesota Watertown Yankton–Vermillion See also List of radio stations in South Dakota

Adult Contemporary radio stations in the state of Minnesota

Stations	KCAJ-FM – Roseau KCML – Saint Joseph KDAL-FM – Duluth KFML – Little Falls KKZY – Bemidji KMFY – Grand Rapids KOWZ-FM – Owatonna KQAD – Luverne KQKK – Walker KRVY-FM – Starbuck KSKK – Verndale KYBA – Rochester KZLT-FM – East Grand Forks WJJY-FM – Brainerd

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Minnesota

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