An Alabama man is buying a silent FM station northwest of Bismarck.
An asset purchase agreement filed with the FCC says William Glass will pay Synergy Broadcast North Dakota LLC $20,000 for KLTQ/97.9 (Beulah). The agreement lists the license and a few pieces of equipment as being included in the deal, but does not mention a transmitter or antenna.
Glass has no other broadcast interests.
KLTQ, which received its license in 2011, has been silent since last summer and faces a statutory deadline of August 16, 2019, to return to the air. Synergy told the FCC last year, in a request for special temporary authority to remain silent, that it had taken KLTQ off the air for financial reasons as it sought a buyer.
Digital Syndicate Network, which owns Sports-formatted KDKT/1410 (Beulah), at one time had an agreement to buy KLTQ. The deal was never consummated and Synergy asked the FCC to dismiss the application to transfer the license last November.
KLTQ was last known to have been relaying KDKT before it went silent; FCC filings indicate KDKT signed on FM translator K293CS/106.5 around the same time KLTQ went off the air.
KLTQ is licensed for 6kW/96m (class A) but was most recently using 100 Watts under special temporary authority.
Beulah is a community of about 3,000 people that’s 60 miles northwest of Bismarck by air. Translators relaying KDKT and a Mandan Christian radio station provide the only city-grade FM signals to Beulah besides KLTQ.