Montana Public Radio
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Montana Public Radio (MTPR) is a network of public radio stations serving the U.S. state of Montana, primarily the western part of the state. The network is owned by the University of Montana, and its studios are located in the Performing Arts and Radio-TV (PARTV) Building on the university's campus in southeast Missoula, with a satellite facility on the campus of Great Falls College Montana State University in south-central Great Falls. The network is affiliated with National Public Radio. Programming originates from flagship station KUFM (89.1 FM) in Missoula.
History
Montana Public Radio began in 1965 when KUFM in Missoula signed on as a 10-watt campus radio station. In 1974, it became a member of National Public Radio.
Starting in the late 1970s, it began building translators across western Montana. Its first full-power satellite, in Great Falls, signed on in 1984. In 1999, a signal extension project funded mostly by a federal grant made it possible to sign on new stations in Kalispell and Hamilton and upgrade translators in Butte and Helena to full-power stations.
Montana Public Radio's Browning transmitter, KUFB, was built in late 2024 as part of a partnership with the Blackfeet Tribe that also saw the expansion of the tribe's radio station, Thunder Radio, into a five-station network.[1]
Stations
Montana Public Radio consists of ten full-power stations and several translators:
| Call sign | Frequency | City of license | Facility ID | ERP (W) |
Height (m (ft)) |
Transmitter coordinates |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KUFB | 88.9 FM | Browning, Montana | Template:FID | 700 | 127 m (417 ft) | Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. |
| KAPC | 91.3 FM | Butte, Montana | Template:FID | 800 | 571 m (1,873 ft) | Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. |
| KUMD | 90.9 FM | Deer Lodge, Montana | Template:FID | 650 | 231 m (758 ft) | Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. |
| KDWG | 90.9 FM | Dillon, Montana | Template:FID | 850 | −72 m (−236 ft) | Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. |
| KGPR | 89.9 FM | Great Falls, Montana | Template:FID | 9,500 | 90 m (300 ft) | Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. |
| KUFN | 91.9 FM | Hamilton, Montana | Template:FID | 900 | 130 m (430 ft) | Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. |
| KUHM | 91.7 FM | Helena, Montana | Template:FID | 910 | 232 m (761 ft) | Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. |
| KUKL | 90.1 FM | Kalispell, Montana | Template:FID | 1,830 | 786 m (2,579 ft) | Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. |
| KUFL | 90.5 FM | Libby, Montana | Template:FID | 1,000 | −318 m (−1,043 ft) | Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. |
| KUFM[a] | 89.1 FM | Missoula, Montana | Template:FID | 14,500 | 754 m (2,474 ft) | Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. |
| KPJH | 89.5 FM | Polson, Montana | Template:FID | 130 | 570 m (1,870 ft) | Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. |
| KUMS | 89.7 FM | White Sulphur Springs, Montana | Template:FID | 150 | 74 m (243 ft) | Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. |
Notes:
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- ^ Flagship station; for this station's translators, see KUFM (FM) § Translators
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Heavy Runner, Martina (February 18, 2025). "Thunder Radio takes to the airwaves throughout Blackfeet Country". Cut Bank Pioneer Press. Retrieved March 14, 2026.
External links
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