The radio stations in Estherville, Iowa, are getting new local owners.
Documents filed with the FCC indicate Matt and Jessica Beaver’s Beaver Broadcasting is buying KILR-FM/95.9 and KILR/1070 from Roger Jacobson’s Jacobson Broadcasting for $1.5 million plus 50% of accounts receivable at the time of closing. The deal also includes KILR translator K247CJ/97.3.
KILR-FM is “Killer Bee Country” while KILR and K247CJ carry syndicated Conservative Talk.
The stations serve an area along the Minnesota-Iowa border, with KILR-FM’s signal rimshotting Spirit Lake, Iowa, and Fairmont and Jackson, Minn.