Rochester, Minnesota

Rochester is a city located in Olmsted County, Minnesota. As of 2005 census estimates, the city had a total population of 97,806, and is Minnesota's third largest city, Rochester is best known as the home of the Mayo Clinic medical center, which now has satellite clinics in several other American cities. The clinic and IBM's Rochester campus are the two biggest private employers in the city. Rochester is the county seat of Olmsted County6. The city is about 80 miles southeast of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul.

Media

The city newspaper is the Rochester Post-Bulletin http://www.postbulletin.com/, and papers from the Twin Cities area are also available. There are two television stations based in Rochester, KTTC channel 10 (NBC) and KXLT channel 47 (Fox). They share studios as part of a special agreement between Quincy Newspapers and Shockley Broadcasting. A number of other channels can be received, though reception varies in the area because the city is spread through a series of valleys. KAAL channel 6 (ABC) in Austin, Minnesota and KIMT http://www.kimt.com/ channel 3 (CBS) in Mason City, Iowa are among the stations that serve the market.

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Newspaper - Rochester Post-Bulletin - Television station - KTTC - NBC - KXLT - Fox - Shockley Broadcasting - Valley - KAAL - ABC - Austin, Minnesota - KIMT - CBS - Mason City, Iowa

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Rochester is on the fringe of the broadcast area of many Twin Cities radio and television stations, and signals from Iowa and Wisconsin reach the area as well. Radio broadcasters in the local market include:

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Radio - Television - Iowa - Wisconsin

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• Clear Channel Communications
• KWEB 1270 AM (sports), a KFAN-AM http://www.kfan.com/ affiliate
• KRCH http://www.laser1017.net/ "Laser 101.7" FM (rock music)
• Cumulus Media
• KROC 1340 AM (news/talk)
• KOLM 1520 AM
• KWWK http://www.kwwkfm.com/ 96.5 FM (country)
• KYBA http://www.y105fm.com/ 105.3 FM
• KROC 106.9 FM (pop music)
• Minnesota Public Radio
• KZSE 90.7 FM (news/talk)
• KLSE 91.7 FM (classical)
• KMSE 88.7 FM (eclectic, translator of KCMP 89.3)
• KRPR 89.9 FM, Rochester Public Radio
• KFSI 92.9 FM, Faith Sound
• KNXR 97.5 FM, United Audio Corporation