Connoisseur Media Agrees to Sell Watertown, SD Six-Station Cluster to Riverfront Broadcasting
Connoisseur Media has reached an agreement to sell its entire six-station cluster in Watertown, South Dakota, to Yankton-based Riverfront Broadcasting.
The stations included in the deal are:
- Country “New Country KS93” KSDR-FM Watertown
- Hot AC 96.1 KIXX Watertown
- Classic Country 96.9 KDLO-FM Milbank
- Classic Hits 104.3 KKSD Watertown
- Full Service 950 KWAT Watertown
- News/Talk 1480 KSDR Watertown
Riverfront Broadcasting currently owns 21 stations across six markets in South Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa. “We are very happy to bring local ownership and local focus back to these great stations in the Watertown Market,” said Riverfront President Carolyn Becker. “Jeff and the Connoisseur team have taken an approach of selling to local ownership and we are grateful for the opportunity.”
The transaction marks Connoisseur Media’s complete exit from South Dakota. The company has additional pending sales of its five stations in Brookings to local management and its two stations in Madison to Christensen Broadcasting.