On Guthrie Peak to the far Northeast of Tucson, near Arizona’s border with New Mexico, lies the tower for a noncommercial radio station that’s presently dark.
This facility has been owned by Cochise Community Radio Corporation, a company that the FCC has been less than pleased with in recent months. Now, Cochise is shedding a station that’s received its fair share of troubles.
In May, Cochise received Consent Decrees from the FCC, with one ordering the operation to donate the license for an FM in the Grand Canyon State to a non-profit organization.
The other involved several license renewal applications, including one for KSFQ-FM 90.9 in Thatcher, Ariz. KSFQ was one of nine Cochise stations to receive short-term renewal grants, and was ordered to “promptly” resume operation to remain in FCC compliance. According to radio-locator.com, KSFQ is still dark.
Thus, Cochise is donating KSFQ to Good News Radio Broadcasting, an Arizona non-profit led by President Doug Martin.
Martin has attributable interest in five other Arizona properties, including KCEE-AM, KGMS-AM and KVOI-AM in Tucson.
KGMS-AM airs a religious format, and it is expected that it will use KSFQ as a simulcast partner.
Cochise is represented by Susan Marshall of Fletcher Heald & Hildreth.
In other TRANSACTIONS TODAY:
- Great Plains Christian Radio is acquiring K222AK in Hugoton, Kan., and K223BS in Ness City, Kan., for $7,250 at closing from Kanza Society Inc. The buyer is led by Board President Joel Herndon.
