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Estherville Radio Stations Get New Local Owner

Posted on August 19, 2021 by Jon Ellis

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.

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