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Connoisseur Media has announced the sale of its Bakersfield CA cluster to Danny and Kait Hill\u2019s Frequency Media for an undisclosed amount.<\/p>\nConnoisseur Media has announced the sale of its Bakersfield CA cluster to Danny and Kait Hill\u2019s Frequency Media for an undisclosed amount.<\/p>\n
The Hill\u2019s, which own \u201cRewind 98.1\/93.5<\/a>\u201d KRWI Woffard Heights\/K228GB Lakes Isabella and \u201cOutlaw Country 1140\/95.9<\/a>\u201d KVLI\/K240FH Lake Isabella, will add CHR \u201cLive 95.3<\/a>\u201d KLLY Olidale, Rhythmic AC \u201cGroove 99.3<\/a>\u201d KKBB Bakersfield, and News\/Talk 1560 KNZR<\/a> Bakersfield\/97.7 KNZR-FM Shafter. The Hills also host a syndicated morning show<\/a>.<\/p>\n Connoisseur says the sale is another step in the company\u2019s efforts to concentrate on markets where it can execute its successful playbook. It is one element in the strategic plan for the markets acquired in Connoisseur Media\u2019s acquisition of Alpha Media that took place in September.<\/p>\n Connoisseur CEO Jeff Warshaw said, \u201cBakersfield was a market that did not fit into the long-term plans we have for Connoisseur. 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\u201d<\/p>\n Prior to acquiring KRWI in 2019, Danny Hill spent two stints at KLLY as PD\/morning host first as Hot AC \u201cKelly 95.3\u201d through its relaunch as Rhythmic CHR \u201cEnergy 95.3\u201d from 2010-15. He would return from 2017-19 with time as VP\/Programming and General Manager for H Hawaii Media and Market Manager for Ingstad Family Media in Kansas in-between. Kait Hill began her radio career with Danny in Hawaii and has co-hosted their syndicated morning show since. She also voicetracked for additional stations across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connoisseur Media has announced the sale of its Bakersfield CA cluster to Danny and Kait Hill\u2019s Frequency Media…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-55644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55644","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=55644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Danny](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/dannykait-200x200.jpg\")
Kait Hill commented, \u201cWe have been working with the folks at Connoisseur for a while before their merger closed in September.\u201d Danny Hill added, \u201cWe are excited to be acquiring these stations to serve the Bakersfield community, which is where we live and our hometown.\u201d<\/p>\n