With 25 watts from a mountain top above Santa Rosa, Calif., an FM translator that once served as the local affiliate of one of the nation’s leading Contemporary Christian noncomm networks has officially traded hands.
The buyer has its own religious programming, and its perfectly “broken.”
At 91.9 MHz from nearby Middletown, Calif., is Class B KLVR-FM 91.9, the originating station for the vast KLOVE network. To give KLOVE a boost in Santa Rosa, it used K276FY at 103.1 MHz.
That relationship has ended, as the translator owned by Joseph Fiori is being sold to One Ministries Inc.
The purchase price is $105,000, and gives One Ministries a Santa Rosa home for its Christian Talk & Teaching programming.
The balance will be paid in full some 30 days from the consummation date of the asset purchase agreement, shown as Oct. 8.
One Ministries is led by Keith Leitch.
According to a Form 345 filing made Wednesday (10/10) with the FCC, K276FY will now rebroadcast Class A KORB-FM 88.7, licensed to Hopland — a small town along U.S. 101 in Mendocino County, to the north of Santa Rosa.
This was confirmed on the website for KORB, branded as “Broken.FM.” It airs a Christian Rock format, with 103.1 MHz already a part of what is now a four-signal network of stations across the U.S. 101 corridor in Sonoma and Mendocino Counties.
