Connoisseur Media has reached an agreement to sell its Bakersfield, California stations \u2013 KLLY-FM, KKBB-FM, and KNZR-AM\/FM \u2013 to Frequency Broadcasting, a locally owned company. The deal, which requires FCC approval, is expected to close early next year.<\/p>\n
The sale is part of Connoisseur\u2019s broader strategy to focus on markets where it can implement its proven operational playbook, following its acquisition of Alpha Media in September. \u201cBakersfield was a market that did not fit into our long-term plans,\u201d said Jeff Warshaw, Connoisseur\u2019s Founder and CEO. \u201cWe looked for a local operator that could devote the time and energy the market deserves, and we\u2019re confident we found that in Frequency and the Hill family operation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Frequency Broadcasting is owned by Kaitlyn and Danny Hill, who also operate \u201cOutlaw Country\u201d KVLI\/K240FH (1140\/95.9) and hot AC \u201cRewind 98.1\/93.5\u201d KRWI\/K228GB in Bakersfield.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been working with Connoisseur for a while before their merger closed,\u201d Kaitlyn Hill said. \u201cWe\u2019re excited to acquire these stations to better serve the Bakersfield community, our hometown,\u201d added Danny Hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connoisseur Media has reached an agreement to sell its Bakersfield, California stations \u2013 KLLY-FM, KKBB-FM, and KNZR-AM\/FM \u2013…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,20299,100],"class_list":["post-56572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-free","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56572","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=56572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}