93.1 KATO Hits (KATO-FM) serves Mankato and the Minnesota River Valley from its license in New Ulm, Minnesota. The station first signed on in 1966 and today, branding itself '93.1 KATO Hits,' plays classic hits — the pop and rock staples of the seventies, eighties and nineties — at a full 100,000 watts. Owned by the Linder Radio Group, it is one of southern Minnesota's big-signal fixtures.