Editing Prairie Public Radio (section)

==History==
Prairie Public was established on February 1, 1999 as the North Dakota Public Radio network. It consisted of three partners — Prairie Public Broadcasting, the North Dakota State University, and the University of North Dakota<ref>[https://www.srg.org/governance/CAB/NDPR-CAB.html "Community Advisory Board Profile: North Dakota Public Radio] (srg.org)</ref> — with the goal of providing a full public radio service to all of North Dakota.

At the time of North Dakota Public Radio's formation, the University of North Dakota operated three stations in Grand Forks: [[KWTL|KUND (AM)]], [[KUND-FM]] (89.3 FM) which dated to 1976, and [[KFJM]] (90.7 FM) which started in 1995. KUND (AM) had been established, as KFJM, in 1923 as one of the first college radio stations in the United States. It left the network after it was sold in 2004. North Dakota State University's station, KDSU (91.9 FM) in Fargo dated to 1966. These stations were early members of [[National Public Radio|NPR]], but this left western North Dakota without public radio. [[Prairie Public Television]] had broadened its mission to include radio in the late 1970s, and in 1981 [[KCND]] in [[Bismarck, North Dakota|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 September 26, 2006, North Dakota Public Radio was renamed Prairie Public, chosen to achieve brand consistency with Prairie Public Broadcasting's television and other operations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.prairiepublic.org/home/about/2000s|title=Prairie Public Broadcasting » 2000s|website=www.prairiepublic.org|access-date=21 August 2018}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kinney |first=Jim |date=2023-08-30 |title=New England Public Media will move classical music off main stations, focusing on news and talk |url=https://www.masslive.com/news/2023/08/new-england-public-media-will-move-classical-music-off-main-stations-focusing-on-news-and-talk.html |access-date=2023-09-26 |website=masslive |language=en}}</ref>

In September 2018, KFJM and KUND-FM were sold by the University of North Dakota to Prairie Public Broadcasting.<ref>[https://radioinsight.com/headlines/170544/station-sales-week-of-9-14-und-exits-radio/ "Station Sales Week Of 9/14: UND Exits Radio"] by Lance Venta, September 14, 2018 (radioinsight.com)</ref>