{"id":57168,"date":"2025-11-17T18:56:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T18:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/57168\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T18:56:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T18:56:16","slug":"connoisseur-to-sell-bakersfield-cluster-talkers-magazine-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/57168\/","title":{"rendered":"Connoisseur to Sell Bakersfield Cluster \u2013 TALKERS magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Connoisseur Media enters into an agreement to sell its Bakersfield, California radio stations to local operator Frequency Broadcasting, Inc. The station group includes news\/talk KNZR-AM\/FM, CHR KLLY-FM, and rhythmic oldies KKBB-FM. This transaction is pending regulatory approval<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1006907\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/knzr.png\" alt=\"img\" width=\"253\" height=\"125\"\/> by the FCC and is expected to close early next year. Connoisseur Media says the sale is \u201canother 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.\u201d Connoisseur Media founder and CEO Jeff Warshaw says, \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<p>Share this with your network<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connoisseur Media enters into an agreement to sell its Bakersfield, California radio stations to local operator Frequency Broadcasting,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-57168","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\/57168","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=57168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}