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KNOW-FM (91.1 FM) is the flagship
Flagship

A flagship is the lead ship in a fleet of vessels, a designation given on account of being either the largest, fastest, newest, most heavily armed or, for publicity purposes, the most well known....
 radio station
Radio station

This article is about radio broadcasting, for other uses see Radio .Radio broadcasting is an audio broadcasting service, traditionally broadcast through the air as radio waves from a transmitter to an antenna and a thus to a receiving device....
 of Minnesota Public Radio
Minnesota Public Radio

Minnesota Public Radio , a 501 non-profit organization, is one of the premier public radio stations producing programming for radio, Internet and face-to-face audiences in the United States....
's "news and information" network, primarily broadcasting a talk radio
Talk radio

Talk radio is a radio format containing discussion about topical issues. Most shows are regularly hosted by a single individual, and often feature interviews with a number of different guests....
 format to the Minneapolis-St. Paul
Minneapolis-St. Paul

Minneapolis-Saint Paul is the most populous List of United States urban areas in the state of Minnesota, United States, and is composed of 186 cities and townships....
 market. The frequency had previously gone under the call sign
Call sign

In broadcasting and radio communications, a call sign is a unique designation for a transmitting station. In some countries they are used as names for broadcasting stations, but in many other countries they are not....
 KSJN
KSJN

KSJN is the flagship station of Minnesota Public Radio's European classical music network, serving the Minneapolis-Saint Paul region. Throughout the 1980s, 99.5 was best known as WLOL , a top-rated Contemporary hit radio station....
, but the purchase of a commercial station at 99.5 MHz in 1991
1991 in radio

The year 1991 in radio broadcasting involved some significant events....
 allowed MPR to broadcast distinct talk radio and classical music services.

WLOL 1330 AM was purchased by MPR in 1980
1980 in radio

The year 1980 in radio broadcasting involved some significant events....
 and carried the KSJN call sign until 1989
1989 in radio

The year 1989 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting....
 when the KNOW letters became available.






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KNOW-FM (91.1 FM) is the flagship
Flagship

A flagship is the lead ship in a fleet of vessels, a designation given on account of being either the largest, fastest, newest, most heavily armed or, for publicity purposes, the most well known....
 radio station
Radio station

This article is about radio broadcasting, for other uses see Radio .Radio broadcasting is an audio broadcasting service, traditionally broadcast through the air as radio waves from a transmitter to an antenna and a thus to a receiving device....
 of Minnesota Public Radio
Minnesota Public Radio

Minnesota Public Radio , a 501 non-profit organization, is one of the premier public radio stations producing programming for radio, Internet and face-to-face audiences in the United States....
's "news and information" network, primarily broadcasting a talk radio
Talk radio

Talk radio is a radio format containing discussion about topical issues. Most shows are regularly hosted by a single individual, and often feature interviews with a number of different guests....
 format to the Minneapolis-St. Paul
Minneapolis-St. Paul

Minneapolis-Saint Paul is the most populous List of United States urban areas in the state of Minnesota, United States, and is composed of 186 cities and townships....
 market. The frequency had previously gone under the call sign
Call sign

In broadcasting and radio communications, a call sign is a unique designation for a transmitting station. In some countries they are used as names for broadcasting stations, but in many other countries they are not....
 KSJN
KSJN

KSJN is the flagship station of Minnesota Public Radio's European classical music network, serving the Minneapolis-Saint Paul region. Throughout the 1980s, 99.5 was best known as WLOL , a top-rated Contemporary hit radio station....
, but the purchase of a commercial station at 99.5 MHz in 1991
1991 in radio

The year 1991 in radio broadcasting involved some significant events....
 allowed MPR to broadcast distinct talk radio and classical music services.

WLOL 1330 AM was purchased by MPR in 1980
1980 in radio

The year 1980 in radio broadcasting involved some significant events....
 and carried the KSJN call sign until 1989
1989 in radio

The year 1989 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting....
 when the KNOW letters became available. The AM signal was later spun off into a for-profit subsidiary to help fund the public broadcaster, and was eventually sold off. As of 2005
2005 in radio

The year 2005 in radio broadcasting involved some significant events....
 it goes under the original WLOL name.

In the 1970s, KSJN 91.1 FM and WLOL 99.5 cooperated in an experimental use of quadraphonic
Quadraphonic

Quadraphonic sound – the most-widely-used early term for what is now called 4.0 stereo – uses four channels in which speakers are positioned at the four corners of the listening space, reproducing signals that are independent of one another....
 stereo
Stereophonic sound

Stereophonic sound, commonly called stereo, is the reproduction of sound, using two or more independent Sound recording and reproduction channels, through a symmetrical configuration of loudspeakers, in such a way as to create a pleasant and natural impression of sound heard from various directions, as in natural hearing....
, with each station carrying two channels of audio. However, this "quadcast" had some undesirable "ping-pong" effects, much like early stereo broadcasts using the same method did. Somewhat ironically, KNOW currently broadcasts primarily in monaural
Monaural

Monaural sound reproduction is single-channel. Typically there is only one microphone, one loudspeaker, or, in the case of headphones or multiple loudspeakers, they are fed from a common Signalling path, and in the case of multiple microphones, mixed into a single signal path at some stage....
 as its schedule is not music-focused.

Austin, Texas

The callsign KNOW was also used by a major adult contemporary radio station in Austin, Texas
Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Travis County, Texas. Situated in Central Texas and part of the Southwestern United States, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 16th-largest in the United States....
, located at 1490 kHz. The station signed off in 1989 after operating for 50 years. The Spanish station KFON
KFON

KFON is an Austin, Texas, Texas, radio station, licensed to Austin, Texas, and is owned by BMP Radio. The station simulcasts a Spanish language music format from Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex station KNOR-FM ....
 assumed the frequency in 1993.

See also

  • KCMP
    KCMP

    KCMP , also known as 89.3 The Current, is a radio station owned by Minnesota Public Radio that broadcasts an eclectic music format including a significant rotation of songs by local artists....
    , MPR's eclectic
    Eclecticism in music

    Eclecticism is used to describe the combination in a single work of elements from different historical styles.Eclecticism plays an important role in critical discussions and evaluations but is somehow distant from the actual forms of the artefacts to which it is applied, and its meaning is thus rather indistinct....
     music
    Music

    Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
     station
  • KSJN
    KSJN

    KSJN is the flagship station of Minnesota Public Radio's European classical music network, serving the Minneapolis-Saint Paul region. Throughout the 1980s, 99.5 was best known as WLOL , a top-rated Contemporary hit radio station....
    , MPR's classical music station


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