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Connoisseur Media has agreed to sell its six station cluster in Watertown SD to Yankton SD based Riverfront Broadcasting.<\/p>\nConnoisseur Media has agreed to sell its six station cluster in Watertown SD to Yankton SD based Riverfront Broadcasting.<\/p>\n
Riverfront will acquire Country \u201cNew Country KS93<\/a>\u201d KSDR-FM Watertown, Hot AC 96.1 KIXX<\/a> Watertown, Classic Country 96.9 KDLO-FM<\/a> Milbank, Classic Hits 104.3 KKSD<\/a> Watertown, Full Service 950 KWAT<\/a> Watertown, and News\/Talk 1480 KSDR<\/a> Watertown. <\/p>\n Riverfront currently owns 21 stations across six markets in South Dakota, Minneapolis and Iowa. President Carolyn Becker said, \u201cWe are very happy to bring local ownership and local focus back to these great stations in the Watertown Market. Jeff and the Connoisseur team have taken an approach of selling to local ownership and we are grateful for the opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n Connoisseur Media will exit South Dakota with this deal. It has pending sales of its five stations in Brookings to local management<\/a> and its pair in Madison SD to Christensen Broadcasting<\/a>.<\/p>\n Connoisseur CEO Jeff Warshaw commented, \u201cThe Watertown market was not a market we felt Connoisseur could make a material difference in with the focus and approach we bring to radio. As we have previously announced, we look for local, quality operators to purchase stations in markets Connoisseur is looking to exit. We have been talking with Carolyn Becker and her company for several months, and we think Riverfront Broadcasting, being a South Dakota based company, understands the local market and can carry on providing local content and will excel in serving the community.\u201d<\/p>\n Kalil & Co. Inc was the exclusive broker on the transaction. Connoisseur Media had legal representation by Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP, while Riverfront Broadcasting, LLC was represented by Marlow, Woodward & Huff, PLLC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connoisseur Media has agreed to sell its six station cluster in Watertown SD to Yankton SD based Riverfront…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":["post-641795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}