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KFNS Sold

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Kent

Radioinsight reported it earlier in the week. The St. Louis Post Dispatch has a bit more detail on the sale of KFNS and the history of the station since KEZK 590 switched to all sports around 30 years ago. Interesting, though maybe not surprising, that the new owners seem to see the deal as more of a real estate transaction than as a radio station purchase.

www.stltoday.com

Sports-talk radio station KFNS to be sold and change format, call letters

Athletics still will be a big part of the conversation, but so will business, the economy, entertainment, food and culture.
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The reported sale price is approximately $250K, which includes the tower property. You have to wonder what the price would have been without the land.
 
All the successful talk stations have a heritage with the format. Not sure how a standalone AM format change is going to pull this off.
 
Wasn't something similar tried with "590 The Man"? A decade ago?

I will laugh endlessly if Kevin Slaten winds up as a part of this.
 
Mark Roberts said:
KLOU has had those calls since 1988, when CBS still owned it.
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And here's the launch of it. CBS killed KHTR despite it being third in the market at the time. I spent part of the summer right before the flip at a summer camp near St. Louis. The camp counselors tended to set the radios to Y98, and I'd sneak around and change them to 103.3. At 13, I wanted Randy Wright's job so badly! Getting to compete against him some 20 years later was a dream!

103.3 KHTR Becomes KLOU - Format Change Archive

Previous Format: CHR “Hitradio 103” KHTR New Format: Oldies “Oldies 103.3” KLOU Date & Time Of Change: November 4, 1988 at 12:00am More Info: Wikipedia Aircheck Contributed by Kent Ahrens
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Kent said:
And here's the launch of it. CBS killed KHTR despite it being third in the market at the time. I spent part of the summer right before the flip at a summer camp near St. Louis. The camp counselors tended to set the radios to Y98, and I'd sneak around and change them to 103.3. At 13, I wanted Randy Wright's job so badly! Getting to compete against him some 20 years later was a dream!

103.3 KHTR Becomes KLOU - Format Change Archive

Previous Format: CHR “Hitradio 103” KHTR New Format: Oldies “Oldies 103.3” KLOU Date & Time Of Change: November 4, 1988 at 12:00am More Info: Wikipedia Aircheck Contributed by Kent Ahrens
formatchangearchive.com
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Bob Hyland sure sounded excited about the changeover. My sarcasm aside, I don't think he was too thrilled when KHTR came along, either.
 
The station is an affiliate of America Tonight with Kate Delaney. They do not have a program schedule on the station website yet, but she announced it at the top of her show tonight.
 
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