Townsquare Media has taken KFIL/1060 (Preston, Minn.) off the air, its second AM station in the region to fall silent.
KFIL, a 1kW daytimer, went off the air July 1.
“Due to economic conditions in the market, the licensee was forced to take the station off the air temporarily,” the station stated in its FCC filing seeking special temporary authority to remain silent. Federal law allows it to remain off the air for up to a year.
KFIL had carried a mix of Polka, syndicated agricultural programming and Conservative Talk, and simulcasts of sister Classic Country station KFIL-FM/103.1 (Chatfield).
KFIL signed on in 1966 and added KFIL-FM in 1971. Townsquare closed the longtime KFIL/KFIL-FM studio in Preston in 2024 and moved KFIL-FM’s operations to Rochester.
Meanwhile, Townsquare’s KOLM/1520 (Rochester) went off the air in April 2025 and returned its license one year later. The company continues to operate one other AM station and seven FM stations in the region.