FORKS — Mayor Nedra Reed said Tuesday she was assured by the new owners of the Forks’ two radio stations that the stations will be back on the air by this weekend.
Reed said a representative of Dallas, Texas, group, First Broadcasting Investment Partners LLC would be in Forks on Jan. 1 to meet with her about the stations. The company took the stations off the air shortly after finalizing the purchase Dec. 18.
The First Broadcast partnership applied for a Federal Communications Commission license on Sept. 3 to buy the station formerly owned by Al, Danitsa, Arthur and Marcia Nearhoff.
Al Nearhoff, who bought the radio station in 1996, died March 17.
KLLM is the only FM station based on the North Olympic Peninsula and has been broadcasting since the late 1980s. KVAC first broadcast in 1967.
Reed has voiced concerns on behalf of the city of Forks that the city was without an emergency broadcast system with the stations closed.
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The rest of the story appears in Wednesday’s Peninsula Daily News.
