KNXR is an easy-listening FM radio station in Rochester, Minnesota

Rochester, Minnesota

Rochester is a city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and is the county seat of Olmsted County. Located on both banks of the Zumbro River, The city has a population of 106,769 according to the 2010 United States Census, making it Minnesota's third-largest city and the largest outside of the...

, US. It was founded by president and general manager Thomas H. Jones, and was first heard Christmas Eve 1965. The station has always played easy listening

Easy listening

Easy listening is a broad style of popular music and radio format that emerged in the 1950s, evolving out of big band music, and related to MOR music as played on many AM radio stations. It encompasses the exotica, beautiful music, light music, lounge music, ambient music, and space age pop genres...

 music, and features John Doremus

John Doremus

John Doremus was an American radio personality, best known for his radio syndication of "The Passing Parade", a series of short stories of remarkable but relatively unknown episodes throughout history.In the late 1950s he acquired the rights to the series, which until then had been a television...

' program Patterns in Music weeknights from 7 to 10.

The KNXR studios are located on the south side of Rochester, at 1620 Greenview Drive SW.

The KNXR Tower

The station broadcasts from a 950ft tower located directly east of Rochester, off County Highway 9. The tower is shared with 4 other area radio stations.