Big Toe Media has surrendered the license for 590 KLIS (Wood River, IL/St. Louis, MO) to the FCC, less than three months after closing its acquisition of the station.
The company, led by Dave Greene and Conrad Thompson, purchased the former KFNS from Zobrist Media for $250,000 last year. It relaunched the station on June 1, 2025, as “The Lou Information Station” KLIS, featuring a broad talk format covering current events, local sports, business, music, wellness, mental health, food, entertainment, and comedy.
Contributors included Jim Hayes (FanDuel Sports Midwest), former St. Louis Blues player Cam Janssen, former KPNT host Tony Patrico, City Lifestyle magazine owners Kelley Lamm and Gordon Montgomery, St. Louis American Sports Editor Earl Austin Jr., and longtime St. Louis personality Charlie ‘Tuna’ Edwards.
The lineup also carried syndicated shows like Dave Ramsey and “America Tonight with Kate Delaney.” The sale closed on December 23, 2025.
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The 590 frequency in the St. Louis market has faced ongoing challenges. It served as the primary all-sports outlet until Hubbard launched “101 ESPN” WXOS in 2009. It shifted to hot talk as “590 The Man” in 2013, went silent in November 2014 amid a failed bankruptcy sale to a religious group, briefly returned to sports via LMA in November 2015 to avoid license expiration, and was acquired by Zobrist Media in 2021 for $450,000.
All local programming ended in June 2024 before the Big Toe transition.