Editing KCMP (section)

===Sale of WCAL===
On August 11, 2004, St. Olaf College announced that it had decided to sell WCAL to enhance the institution's [[Financial endowment|endowment]]. At least eleven offers were reportedly received, but apparently only two were presented to the Board of Regents, including one from California-based [[EMF Broadcasting]], a non-commercial religious broadcaster which originates the [[K-Love]] network.

St. Olaf announced in August that it had decided to sell WCAL to Minnesota Public Radio.  MPR had made a bid for WCAL as early as 1971, shortly after NPR's formation. The station was now even more attractive to MPR, as it was the most powerful noncommercial signal in the state that wasn't a part of the MPR network. This prompted the formation of a group known as SaveWCAL that attempted to halt the sale to MPR. SaveWCAL argued that the station was a charitable trust held by St. Olaf, and the college should have at least asked a judge for permission to dissolve the trust before selling it to MPR. These efforts were unsuccessful.

The sale agreement for WCAL/KMSE was finalized by St. Olaf College and Minnesota Public Radio on Friday, November 19, 2004. The station ceased broadcasting from its Northfield studios at 10 p.m. two days later, and began [[simulcast]]ing Minnesota Public Radio's classical music stream. The two-day delay allowed for final broadcasts of Sunday religious services. A few WCAL employees were hired by MPR and some changes were made to MPR's classical music service in an attempt to appeal to former WCAL listeners. On February 1, 2005, the WCAL call sign was sold by MPR to the student-run [[college radio]] [[WCAL|station]] of California University of Pennsylvania.[https://web.archive.org/web/20070205134248/http://wcal.cup.edu/] [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?list=0&facid=63559]

Continued activism from SaveWCAL, however, resulted in a state district court judge characterizing the transaction [http://minnesotaindependent.com/view/donors-group-demands] as an illegal sale of a charitable trust by an irresponsible trustee [https://web.archive.org/web/20080617010607/http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2008/06/judge_in_wcal_c.php]. SaveWCAL has since requested that the [[Minnesota Attorney General]]'s office declare the sale void [https://web.archive.org/web/20090422005520/http://savewcal.net/2008/06/12/savewcal-demands-ag-enforce-minnesota-law/] and filed a Petition To Redress Breach of Trust [https://web.archive.org/web/20081021120051/http://savewcal.net/2008/09/25/savewcal-files-petition-redress-breach-trust/] in Rice County District Court on September 24, 2008. However, in 2009, another court ruled that SaveWCAL had waited too long to go to court.[https://web.archive.org/web/20101012213503/http://blogs.citypages.com/gimmenoise/2009/12/appeals_court_r.php]