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Prairie Public is a network of 10 radio stations in the state of North Dakota. Prairie Public's radio network provides NPR news and programming, local and regional news, and two distinct music formats, the ''News and Classical'' network and the adult album alternative formatted ''Roots, Rock, and Jazz'' network. It is a service of Prairie Public Broadcasting, in association with North Dakota State University in Fargo and the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks. Prairie Public maintains active studios in Grand Forks, Fargo, and Bismarck. ==History== KUND's lineage can be traced to 1923, when KUND (now KWTL) signed on from the University of North Dakota, one of the first college radio stations in the United States. KUND moved to several frequencies over the years before finally settling on 1370 AM. By the 1970s, it had adopted the on-air name of ''Northern Lights Public Radio''. It added two FM stations in 1980〔https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=69127&Callsign=KUND-FM〕 and 1995.〔https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=69406&Callsign=KFJM〕 The two stations briefly went off the air in 1997 due to flooding in the transmitter. In August of that year, KFJM was renamed KUND-FM, and UND's college radio station, KFJY, became the new KFJM.〔http://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Mass_Media/Public_Notices/Call_Sign_Changes/pnmm7171.txt〕 In 1952, students at North Dakota Agricultural College signed on KDSC, a carrier current station. It began using the KDSU calls sometime in the early 1960s, when NDAC became North Dakota State University. The station went off the air in 1964 due to technical difficulties, but returned in 1966 as a fully licensed FM station. It originally tried to satisfy all tastes, airing jazz, blues, folk music, classical music, rock and opera. By 1981, however, it had evolved into a more traditional public radio station, airing news and jazz during the week and specialty programming on weekends. Both stations were early members of NPR, but this still left western North Dakota without public radio. Prairie Public Television broadened its mission to include radio in the late 1970s, and in 1981 KCND in Bismarck signed on as the first public radio station in the western part of the state, under the on-air name of ''Prairie Public Radio''. Between 1981 and 1993, four more stations signed on. On February 1, 1999; Prairie Public Radio, KDSU and KUND merged to form ''North Dakota Public Radio,'' with the goal of providing a full public radio service to all of North Dakota. In 2004, KUND-AM was sold by the University of North Dakota, leaving the network. On September 26, 2006, the service reverted to the Prairie Public name, chosen to achieve brand consistency with Prairie Public Broadcasting's television and other operations.〔http://www.prairiepublic.org/home/about/2000s〕 In 2009, KPPD signed on as a full-power station for the Devils Lake region, and HD Radio was rolled out to all Prairie Public full-power stations. In 2012, KPPW signed on as the new full-power ''News and Classical'' network station for Williston, with KPPR moving to the ''Roots, Rock, and Jazz'' network. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Prairie Public Radio」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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