KSVR is a radio station

Radio station

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 broadcasting a Regional Mexican

Regional Mexican

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 and Variety

Variety (radio)

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 format. Licensed to Mount Vernon, Washington

Mount Vernon, Washington

Mount Vernon is a city in Skagit County, Washington, United States. The population was 31,743 at the 2010 census. It is one of two principal cities of and included in the Mount Vernon-Anacortes, Washington Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is the county seat of Skagit County...

, USA, the station serves the Mount Vernon area. The station is currently owned by Board of Trustees of Skagit Valley College.

History

The station started in May 1973, as KSVR, at 90.1 FM. In March 1997, Washington State University turned on a new channel serving Port Angeles Washington and Victoria British Columbia, also on 90.1FM. The signal completely wiped out the KSVR signal in Skagit Valley. Over the next 6 months, a battle to "make KSVR right" was waged between the listeners in Skagit County and WSU. When 150 MeCha convention students peacefully protested in front of the WSU presidents house, the next day, Skagit Valley College got a call saying that WSU would help to repair the situation. WSU then proceeded to build a new station at 91.7, and named it KTHY-FM, beginning on 1999-12-21, although it was not on the air yet. On 2002-09-20, the station call sign exchange was filed with FCC, to change 91.7 to KSVR, and to change the 90.1 signal to KMWS, and on 2002-11-27 the 91.7fm signal formally changed to the current KSVR.. This was a very confusing few months for KSVR, which actually was a different call sign for a couple months. No matter what the Wiki says, KSVR was never called KMWS. That is the name of the new WSU service they got when they took the old 90.1 FM channel from Skagit Valley College, and gave it the new 91.7FM. (KMWS continues to broadcast from Burlington, but they changed its 90.1 channel to 89.9FM--confusing huh?) KSVR (Skagit Valley Radio) has been on 91.7 since 2002.