KVRR

KVRR (channel 15) is a television station in Fargo, North Dakota, United States, affiliated with the Fox network.

KVRR also handles master control and some internal operations for sister station and fellow Fox affiliate KQDS-TV in Duluth, Minnesota.

KVRR was the flagship television property of previous owner Red River Broadcasting, which owned the station from its inception until its sale to Coastal in 2024.

On November 30, 2021, Forum Communications (owner of WDAY/WDAZ) announced its intent to purchase KVRR and its satellites, as well as KQDS, from Red River Broadcasting for $24 million.

Forum had sought a waiver from the FCC allowing it to own a second top–four ranked full-power station in the Fargo–Grand Forks market, though it would not consolidate the newsrooms of WDAY and KVRR.

[5] On December 1, 2023, it was announced that Red River would sell the stations to the Coastal Television Broadcasting Group;[1] the sale was completed on April 5, 2024.

[13][14] Although it can be received in several rural counties in North Dakota and Minnesota, the station's largest potential audience lies in the urban centers of southern Manitoba, including Altona, Morden and Winkler, and fringe coverage of Winnipeg.

As with most programming, KVRR's newscasts are simulcast on satellite stations KJRR, KBRR and KNRR, with separate Grand Forks area commercials occasionally inserted on KBRR/KNRR.

On February 5, 2014, KVRR became the third and last television news operation in the Fargo–Grand Forks market (after KXJB-TV 4/KVLY 11 and WDAY 6/WDAZ 8) to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition.

These stations fully simulcast KVRR, but KBRR and KNRR occasionally air separate commercials for Grand Forks and the northern portion of the viewing area.

KVRR and its satellite stations originally relayed its programming on a large network of translators throughout eastern North Dakota and west-central Minnesota.

KVRR originally maintained translators in north-central Alexandria, Bemidji, Grand Rapids, Red Lake (relaying KBRR), and Walker, Minnesota.

The Grand Rapids translator now carries sister station KQDS-TV in Duluth, whose master control and non-news programming originates from Fargo.

The Alexandria, Red Lake and Walker translators, owned by private groups, now carry stations from the Twin Cities.

KVRR studio in Fargo, North Dakota.
KVRR's last logo while branded simply "Fox", used from March 2014 through early 2015.
Previous KVRR FOX News logo until 2014.
KVRR tower in Tansem, Minnesota .