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KMSC is also the call letters for a student run radio station at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa, known as "Fusion 88.3." The station offers Siouxland's 100,000 residents a blend of cutting edge music and artists. The station's 24-hour broadcast day also includes specialty programming, news and weather updates.

Morningside College student radio station KMSC FM 88.3 received the Eric Sevareid Award for first place in the category of student radio play-by-play at the Northwest Broadcast News Association (NBNA) Midwest Journalism Conference held March 31 and April 1 at Minneapolis, Minn. KMSC received the award for its football broadcast of Morningside’s 35-13 victory against Hastings College on Oct. 29. Casey Gibbs, a senior from Garnavillo, Iowa, and former student Josh Creekmore of Hartington, Neb., were the student broadcasters

KMSC 88.3 is headed up by Morningside Professor Mark Heistad, formerly of Minnesota Public Radio Heistad also worked at KUNI/KHKE in Cedar Falls, Iowa, and was a frequent contributor to National Public Radio's Morning Edition and All Things Considered.

KMSC went on the air in April, 1978 as a “Class D” non-commercial/educational FM station operating at 88.3 megahertz with a power of 10 watts. KMSC is actually a revival of a student-built station with the call letters KFMR that broadcast from Morningside between 1923 and 1928. KFMR was among the earliest educational stations in the country (the very first educational stations at the Universities of Minnesota and Wisconsin went on the air in 1922).Not much else is known about KFMR, though an entry in one Morningside yearbook of the 1920s does demand that all classroom lectures be broadcast over the station so that students could “attend class” while staying in bed. Going back a bit further in history, the Morningside archives contain a few references to a “Marconi station” at Morningside built in the nineteen-teens by some physics students. This was a pre-broadcast radio station capable only of sending Morse code signals. The archives are silent on how this station was used.

KMSC at Morningside College is the only radio station authorized by the FCC to use these call letters. KMSC at Morningside College is a student-run radio station in Sioux City, Iowa, known as "Fusion 88.3." The station offers Siouxland's 100,000-plus residents a blend of cutting edge alternative music and artists. The station's 24-hour broadcast day also includes specialty programming (hip-hop, R&B, Christian, heavy metal, etc), news, Morningside sports and weather updates.

KMSC has a track record of broadcasting political events live, including Sioux City appearances by presidential candidates. Recent political broadcasts have featured Senators Christopher Dodd, Barack Obama and John McCain. We're hoping to see some other candidates on campus soon. On election night KMSC marshals some 60 Mass Comm, PoliSci and other students for a marathon "count the vote" broadcast.

KMSC received the Eric Sevareid Award for first place in the category of student radio play-by-play from the Northwest Broadcast News Association (NBNA) at the Midwest Journalism Conference in 2006.

KMSC has twice (2004 and 2006) been voted a "Siouxland Choice" radio station by readers of the Weekender newspaper, ranking this underfunded bunch of students among the three most popular radio stations in the market twice in recent years. Take that corporate radio.

KMSC encourages musicians and bands traveling to or through the Siouxland area to contact the station about live or live-on-tape concert sessions, which are generally scheduled once a month.

KMSC's faculty adviser is Associate Professor of Mass Communication Mark Heistad, formerly of Minnesota Public Radio and KUNI/KHKE at the University of Northern Iowa. Heistad was a frequent contributor to National Public Radio's Morning Edition and All Things Considered in the 1980s. Heistad previously taught at the University of St. Thomas (St. Paul, MN), The University of Minnesota (Twin Cities, MN) and Penn State University (University Park, PA).

KMSC is integrated into the Morningside Mass Communication curriculum through the Audio Production course (Comm 104), the Sportscasting course (Comm 260) and the Seminar in Media and Democracy (Comm 225/425).

KMSC's on-air control room, production room and offices are currently located in the HJF Learning Center, on the back side of the college library. There are plans underfoot to move the principle control room to the nearby and defunct observatory building. Stay Tuned.

KMSC Fusion 88.3 Morningside College

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