Near Creech Air Force Base, due north of Las Vegas on U.S. 95, listeners to a noncommercial secular radio station on March 21 experienced a programming change.
On that date, Las Vegas Public Radio completed the initial conversion of what was KQQY-FM to KJPT, at 90.1 MHz. Now, paperwork has been submitted with the FCC that seeks its approval of the station’s sale.
Online streaming of KJPT is now available, with a 48kw broadcast facility still to come as LVPR is selling KJPT to Portsonic Communications of Kingman, Ariz.
The cost? $0.00, as there is no cash consideration for the transfer of control of the facility.
What is Portsonic? It is a U.S. Department of Defense contractor “who is Socially and Economically Disadvantaged as business defined by the Small Business Administration.”
Leading Portsonic is Greg LaPorta, as President. And, he happens to be President of LVPR and holds 34% of the voting interest in the organization.
Thus, the deal is semi-internal, as it involves a LVPR executive acquiring full control of the facility.
