Editing KCMP (section)

==Format==
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The modern "third service" for MPR (the organization already operates "news and information" and classical music networks) programs a wide range of music. The KCMP "anti-format" was announced in December 2004, along with the station's new program director Steve Nelson and music director Thorn Skroch.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.citypages.com/2005-03-02/news/a-real-rock-n-roll-radio-station-for-your-pledge-of-just-10-a-month/2|title=A Real Rock 'n' Roll Radio Station... for Your Pledge of Just $10 a Month?|date=March 2, 2005|publisher=City Pages|access-date=March 28, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402164028/http://www.citypages.com/2005-03-02/news/a-real-rock-n-roll-radio-station-for-your-pledge-of-just-10-a-month/2/|archive-date=April 2, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> KCMP is modeled on noncommercial alternative stations established earlier, including [[KEXP]] (Seattle),<ref>{{cite news|last1=Johnson|first1=Gene|title=Tiny Seattle station emerges as leading force in indie radio|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/products/services/2005-10-16-kexp-radio_x.htm|access-date=June 22, 2016|work=USA Today|date=October 16, 2005}}</ref> [[KCRW]] (Los Angeles), the pioneering [[WXPN]] (Philadelphia),<ref>{{cite web|last1=Barton|first1=Jack|title=NON-COMM Strategies With WXPN PD Bruce Warren|url=http://fmqb.com/article.asp?id=1695344|publisher=FMBQ|access-date=November 2, 2016|date=February 12, 2010}}</ref>