KHLY

KHLY (1440 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Hailey, Idaho. The station is currently owned by Scott Parker, through licensee Sun Valley Media Group, LLC.

KHLY
CityHailey, Idaho
Broadcast areaBlaine County, Idaho
Frequency1440 kHz
Programming
FormatNews-Talk
AffiliationsPremier Networks, Fox News Radio
Ownership
OwnerScott Parker
(Sun Valley Media Group, LLC)
History
First air date
December 1, 2005
Former call signs
KBET (2002-2003)
KPTO (2003-2005)
KBET (2005)
KPTO (2005-2019)
Call sign meaning
K-HLY short for Hailey
Technical information
Facility ID129638
ClassB
Power270 watts day
107 watts night
Transmitter coordinates
43°32′59″N 114°19′17″W
Translator(s)103.7 K279DA (Sun Valley)

History

The call sign, “KHLY” was first assigned to the World War II, Liberty Ship, SS PIERRE L’ENFANT, O.N. 243687 by the United States Coast Guard (USCG) , built in 1943.[1] The ship was sold in 1946 to commercial interests and after several owners, eventually grounded on the Black Sea near Tuapse and declared a total loss in 1970.

Almost 50 years later, and upon the request of Sun Valley Media Group LLC to use this call sign for a new commercial AM radio station at Hailey, Idaho, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the USCG released this call sign on September 5, 2019. Following that action, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) then assigned these call letters to the AM radio station in Hailey.

The AM frequency was first licensed as KBET, on January 25, 2002 at Pocatello, Idaho, and renewed on December 1, 2005.[2]

In 2008, the radio industry website 100000watts.com reported that KPTO had gone silent. In 2009, the Fifth District Court in Washington County, Utah appointed a receiver to take over KPTO for US Capital, of Boulder, Colorado - who foreclosed on Legacy Media, then owner of KPTO, along with several other stations. In 2013, the receiver sold the station for $41,000 to Ted Austin's Main Street Broadcasting, LLC in a District Court-approved sale.

In 2014, KPTO was sold for $75,000 to Freedom's Voice Broadcasting Corporation, co-owned by Tim Aalders and Anthony Bean. Aalders, soon after paid $32,000 and assumed sole ownership of the station under Freedom's Voice Radio LLC. Effective March 27, 2017, Aadlers sold the station for $22,000 to Scott Parker's Sun Valley Media Group, LLC.

Parker moved the station more than 100 miles (northwest) from Bannock County to Blaine County, Idaho. The station's call sign of "KPTO" was changed to “KHLY” on September 12, 2019, to reflect its new community of license of Hailey, where a new radio tower was constructed. Parker also signed-on an FM translator station (K279DA) in Sun Valley, which re-broadcasts the station on 103.7 MHz. Programming was re-launched on January 1, 2020.

References
  1. "SS Pierre L'Enefant". United States Coast Guard Dept of Homeland Security, USCS.
  2. "KHLY Call Sign History". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.


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