Independence Rock Media Acquires Nine In Northern California

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Independence Rock Media Acquires Nine In Northern California - RadioInsight

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The affected stations in this deal are.

• Variety Hits “96.3 Jack-FM” KAJK Susanville
• Regional Mexican “Radio Mexicana” 99.7 KTOR Gerber
• Classic Country “100.3 The Outlaw” KHEX Concow
• Country “Double X Country” 100.7 KGXX Susanville
• Regional Mexican “La Gran X” 101.7 KEGE Hamilton City
• Talk 1370 KRAC Red Bluff/103.3 K277CE Fallon NV
• Sports 1490 KLZN/99.3 K257EK Susanville
• Standards 1490 KBLF/104.7 K284CL Red Bluff
• Spanish Christian 1560 KIQS/98.3 K252FN Willows

 

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Apparently IRM is in the process of acquiring KYCT 92.7 Shasta Lake per an FCC filing on 4/29/2021. The station was carrying a classic country music format at one time but never streamed. As a class A, it was running just 285 watts ERP from a South Fork Mountain site. The (fire) sale price was just $60,000. Redding is a heavily over-radio'd market for certain.

At least one station in the Redding market is going away soon... "Franken FM" KNNN-LP , marketed as "Hella Radio", on 87.75 will be facing the mandatory digital cutover TV deadline. For now, you can still hear KNNN-LP on the internet at : http://ice10.securenetsystems.net/KNNN

 

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KYCT continues to operate with a heavy load of local advertising for Redding-area businesses. . 92.7 still brands itself as "The Outlaw"

 

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Several of the Ind Rock Media signals are now streamed at indrockmedia.com:8000
Stream 6 is the KRAC/KBLF one where the Hunters (the owners) host the morning show. Not all the streams such as KYCT are present yet.

 

[Frequency1]

The sale to Independence has now been consummated.

 

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KYCT 92.7 Lake Shasta-Redding now carries the Cal Hunter's "Morning Show" in parallel with KRAC and KBLF. I suppose the rest of the time KYCT "The Outlaw" continues carrying country music.

 

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KYCT 92.7 Lake Shasta-Redding now carries the Cal Hunter's "Morning Show" in parallel with KRAC and KBLF. I suppose the rest of the time KYCT "The Outlaw" continues carrying country music.

KYCT 92.7 was one of my better logs during an Eskip event in wyoming a few years ago

Audio: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bI_CzLBKu8shjfbuMSs3pGQpas1LVXIM/view?usp=sharing

 

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Red Bluff related .. I saw a KRCR-TV story about the Papini kidnapping and the negative impact it had on stereotyping Hispanic women. The reporter interviewed Araceli Gutierrez of Red Bluff - she runs a "bilingual radio station." It turns out the "radio station" is online-only service called "Stereo Salvage" (http://stereosalvaje.com) . A check of their Shoutscast server this afternoon showed 40 listeners on line.
Darn it but "streaming internet audio" is not radio. There's no RF involved unless you're on a cellphone.

So perhaps Independence Media could spin off one of their local properties to these folks?

Story is here: Radio host in Red Bluff's Hispanic community discusses impact of Papini case