KOVC Radio to Celebrate 90 Years Over the Airwaves

VALLEY CITY, N.D. (NewsDakota.com) KOVC Radio hit the airwaves for the first time on October 19th 1936 in Valley City, North Dakota. Since then we ve been serving the area with news, weather, and a lot of local sports broadcasts. Back then, bands and musical artists would perform live broadcasts in the studio located at that time in the Rudolf Hotel. A 16-year-old girl from Wimbledon, North Dakota got her start singing on KOVC Radio, she went on to become a national and eventually an international music star and song writer. Her name was Norma Egstrom, you know her as Peggy Lee, now you know the rest of the story. A group of local businessmen got together to get an FCC license, purchases a studio, and more importantly a radio tower with engineers to put it all together back in 1936. Eventually Bob Ingstad Sr. would become the majority owner of the station, which has been family owned for 90 years. Thanks to all the local businesses who have supported us in the past and continue to su