UMD finalizes sale of KUMD to WDSE-WRPT

The Duluth Superior Area Educational Television Corporation, a public media organization known as WDSE•WRPT based in Duluth, and the University of Minnesota Duluth have finalized their agreement for WDSE•WRPT to purchase UMD's radio station, KUMD 103.3 FM. 

As of Dec. 1, the station will be known as “The North 103.3 FM." The station’s call letters will become WDSE, while the frequency will remain 103.3 FM. There will be no immediate changes to the station’s programming and format, the station said in an official statement today, and current staff will remain in place. Opportunities for UMD students to be involved at the station will continue, including both on-air and behind-the-scenes work, and will be expanded into television as well. 

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