Its licensee name is Prairie Winds Broadcasting, but in its home market of Aberdeen, S.D., the state’s third-largest city, it operates as Hub City Radio.
Here, it owns six full-power radio stations and two FM translators. Now, a third FM translator is being added to the mix.
The seller? An entity that’s poised to assume ownership of Ed Stolz‘s former FM properties.
Hub City, led by President Brian Lundquist, is purchasing K233BN at 94.5 MHz in Aberdeen from VCY America, the Milwaukee-based broadcast ministry.
At present, the FM translator is used to rebroadcast KVCH-FM 88.7 in Huron, S.D., offering Biblical teaching, sacred music, and informative news.
That’s poised to change, with Hub City offering $10,000 for the facility.
Terms of the agreement also call for the cancellation of a tower agreement signed between Hub City and VCY in July 2012, cancelling a $5,789 bill VCY hasn’t paid to Hub City for use of the facility.
For VCY, it has up to five years to find another broadcast license for continuation of coverage in Aberdeen. Once complete, the tower is theirs for rental, with the current terms of $765 a month kicking in at year three of a five-year agreement that sees monthly payment reduced to $1 for the next 24 months.
Prairie Winds owns such Aberdeen stations as “106.7 Point FM,” “The Rock 94.1,” and “Pheasant Country 103.7.” It also operates a five-station group under the Big Stone Radio name, with stations serving South Dakota towns including Watertown and Milbank and the Minnesota community of Ortonville.
