If -- and it's a big if -- Stolz can clear out enough of the past due bills to fire up KREV again, he doesn't need to make a deal with Austin, or anyone else, to program it. There are plenty of programming sources that are free to a station through barter (I happen to be one of them ... it's how I am able to focus a lot of my time on small- and unrated-market clients) but perhaps none of them want to do business with Ed either.
I now find myself wondering if 92.7 (or the rest of the Stolz "empire" in Las Vegas and Palm Springs) will return to the air before I die.