{"id":53518,"date":"2025-11-14T21:43:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/53518\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T21:43:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:43:35","slug":"connoisseur-to-sell-bakersfield-stations-to-frequency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/53518\/","title":{"rendered":"Connoisseur to Sell Bakersfield Stations to Frequency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Connoisseur to Sell Bakersfield Stations to Frequency<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/images.radio-online.com\/images\/logos\/ConnoisseurMediaxl.png\" class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return hs.expand(this)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ConnoisseurMediaXL.png\" style=\"min-height:147px; max-height:147px;\" alt=\"Connoisseur Media\" title=\"Click to enlarge\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Connoisseur Media<\/p>\n<p class=\"story\">Connoisseur Media has reached an agreement to sell its Bakersfield, CA cluster to Frequency Broadcasting, a locally owned company operated by Kaitlyn and Danny Hill. Under the deal, Frequency will acquire KLLY-FM, KKBB-FM, and KNZR-AM &amp; FM. The transaction is subject to FCC approval and is expected to close early next year. The move follows Connoisseur&#8217;s acquisition of several markets from Alpha Media in September. <\/p>\n<p class=\"story\"> &#8220;Bakersfield was a market that did not fit into the long-term plans we have for Connoisseur,&#8221; said Founder and CEO Jeff Warshaw. &#8220;We looked for a local operator that we felt could devote the time and energy that Bakersfield deserves. We are confident that we have found that in Frequency and the Hill family operation.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"story\"> Frequency Broadcasting already owns two stations in the market: Outlaw Country 95.9 FM\/1140 AM and Rewind 98.1 FM\/93.5 FM. &#8220;We have been working with the folks at Connoisseur for a while before their merger closed in September,&#8221; said Kait Hill. &#8220;We are excited to be acquiring these stations to serve the Bakersfield community, which is where we live and our hometown,&#8221; added Danny Hill. <\/p>\n<p class=\"story\"> Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP represented Connoisseur Media in the transaction, while Frequency Broadcasting was represented by Smithwick &amp; Belendiuk, P.C.&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connoisseur to Sell Bakersfield Stations to Frequency Connoisseur Media Connoisseur Media has reached an agreement to sell its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,21616,6222,21612,20718,21611,21614,6220,21615,21613],"class_list":["post-53518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-podcast-news","tag-radio-industry","tag-radio-industry-news","tag-radio-news","tag-radio-promotion","tag-radio-show-prep","tag-radio-station","tag-radio-station-data","tag-radio-stations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}