It has a 100kw Class 1 license and boasts a signal that reaches Kansas City and Topeka, Kansas. However, in recent years this FM has been a Top 40 station devoting its coverage to Northeast Kansas from the home of the University of Kansas, in Lawrence.
Now, a change is in the works for KKSW-FM, as a new owner will take possession of the station pending regulatory approval.
Great Plains Media has signed off on an agreement that will see the facility at 105.9 MHz be sold to Reyes Media Group.
An amount of $2.25 million has been agreed to by the parties.
Terms call for an escrow deposit of $112,500 be made with Fowler Media Consulting as Escrow Agent by September 30. A partial escrow deposit of $50,000 is already in Fowler’s hands.
Fowler is Great Plains’ broker in this transaction.
Should the remaining $62,500 not be timely deposited, Great Plains Media may unilaterally request dismissal of the FCC Application; Reyes and its officers, directors or shareholders will not take any action to oppose the dismissal of the FCC Application.
Furthermore, the $50,000 payment will remain in Great Plains’ possession as a termination payment.
A generation of radio listeners have known KKSW as “105.9 KISS FM.” The Top 40 format and branding came in early 2012. Great Plains Media has been the owner since 2005, when the station was spun from Zimmer Radio Group; at the time it had a Hot Adult Contemporary format.
However, the station across the 1980s and much of the 1990s was KLZR, airing an Alternative format as “105.9 The Lazer.”
Under Reyes’ ownership, KKSW is expected to adopt a format of appeal to the growing Hispanic population in Northeast Kansas and in the Kansas City metropolitan area. Reyes’ properties there include two AMs (one leased from Audacy Inc.), and an additional AM in Mission, Kansas.
