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Nebraska Public Media says K209FS/89.7 (Columbus) is going off the air for what could be an outage of eight months or longer. The network’s news release says its radio service will be off the air in Columbus until it either finds a new tower location for K209FS or is ready to sign on new station KUNE-FM/88.7 (Columbus). In the meantime, it’s telling Columbus listeners to try the fringe signal of KXNE/89.3 (Norfolk) or use its web stream. Columbus has a population of about 24,000.
Iowa Public Radio’s broadcast outages page notes that the HD signal on KUNI/90.9 (Cedar Falls) is currently down, with no known timeframe for restoration.
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Ren Clayton recently joined CBS owned-and-operated WCCO-TV/4 (Minneapolis) as weekend sports anchor and sports reporter.
Chris Shaffer, chief meteorologist at WCCO-TV, is taking on a weekend job at Oldies outlet WDGY/740 (Hudson-St. Paul). “Saturdays with Shaffer” will air from 10 a.m. to Noon starting July 8.
Nicole Agee has stepped away from the anchor desk at Gray ABC affiliate KCRG-TV/9 (Cedar Rapids) to transition to a recruiting job with Gray.
Brian Sines has joined Leighton Broadcasting’s group of five radio stations in Winona as general manager, departing Townsquare Media’s group in Cedar Rapids.
HisAir recently reported that Katie Henslin is joining PraiseLive (KNOF/95.3 St. Paul-Minneapolis) as the station’s new Minneapolis operations director.
FOX 11 (WLUK Green Bay) reports that longtime manager Pat Krohlow has died. Krohlow started at the station as a photojournalist and worked as assignment editor, news director, and marketing director before retiring in 2010. He was 76.
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