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KMRS

KMRS (1230 AM) is a full-service radio station, licensed to Morris, Minnesota. It provides "live" local news, information, weather, and sports 18 hours a day. It is owned by Iowa City Broadcasting Company, Inc. KMRS covers area news and events with a full-time news director, and is affiliated with ABC, MN News Network and the Linder Farm Network. It's the local home of the Minnesota Vikings and the Minnesota Twins. It is located at 46671 State Hwy 28, along with sister station KKOK-FM. KMRS was founded by Clifford Hedberg, co-publisher of the newspaper in nearby Cokato, MN, in 1956. In the late 1950s radio stations were rapidly filling the landscape in many rural portions of the United States, and this was the case in west-central Minnesota when Hedberg decid… more »