For more than two decades, he had been an operator of radio stations serving one of the most bucolic viticultural regions of the Golden State — the wine-producing Santa Ynez Valley of northern Santa Barbara County. On June 15, 2022, the future of those facilities came into question as the owner, Shawn Knight, died following a paragliding accident.
On March 8, one of the Knight Broadcasting properties was sold to Stefan Carpenter and Erron Vela’s Santa Ynez Valley Media. Now, a new licensee has come forward for Knight’s “Mix 96.7,” and all signs point to a noncommercial conversion of this Class A FM.
