Minnesota Independant Public Radio

What is IPR?

• IPR is the second largest public radio network in the state of Minnesota and one of the largest public radio networks of its kind in the United States.

• IPR consists of 13 independently licensed and managed, locally responsive, community-based public radio stations in Minnesota.

• IPR covers nine-tenths of the state's area and 92% of the state's population with signals from its member stations.

• IPR has a combined listening audience of nearly 400,000 devoted listeners.

• IPR stations have no affiliation with MPR (Minnesota Public Radio) and receive no financial support from MPR.

• The stations comprising the IPR network are KAX E-FM (Grand Rapids), KBEM-FM (Twin Cities), KFAI-FM (Twin Cities), KMOJ-FM (Twin Cities), KMSU-FM and KMSK-FM (Mankato/Austin), KQAL-FM (Winona), KSRQ-FM (Thief River Falls), KUMD-FM (Duluth), KUMM-FM (Morris), KUOM-AM & FM (Radio K) (Twin Cities), KVSC-FM (St. Cloud), WCAL-FM and KMSE-FM (Northfield/Rochester) (MPR's acquisition of WCAL has not been completed) and WTIP-FM (Grand Marais).

AMPERS (Association of Minnesota Public Educational Radio Stations), founded in 1972, is the IPR parent organization whose purpose is to strengthen the IPR network member stations through mutual support and fund-raising, producing and sharing programming, and encouraging growth and advocacy at the state and national levels.