KOUT (98.7 FM, "Kat Country 98.7") is a

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to serve

Rapid City, South Dakota Rapid City ( lkt, link=no, Mni Lúzahaŋ Otȟúŋwahe; "Swift Water City") is the second most populous city in South Dakota and the county seat of Pennington County. Named after Rapid Creek, where the settlement developed, it is in western So ...

. The station is owned by

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. It airs a

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format. The station was assigned the KOUT call letters by the

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on November 29,

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. Notable on-air personalities include "The Roadhouse" with Amy & Brandon, Dean Taylor on mid-days, Mark Houston, the last original Kat Country personality, on afternoons, and syndicated show
The Big Time with Whitney Allen
on evenings an
The Blair Garner Show
overnight.

Ownership

In May 1999, Triad Broadcasting reached a deal to acquire this station from brothers Jim and Tom Ingstad as part of a twelve-station deal valued at a reported $37.8 million. In July 2006,

Schurz Communications Schurz Communications is a South Bend, Indiana-based broadband media group and cloud services provider. It owned newspapers. History The company was founded in 1872 by Alfred B. Miller and Elmer Crockett with the creation of the ''South Bend ...

reached an agreement to buy this station from Triad Broadcasting Co. as part of a six-station deal valued at a reported $19 million. Schurz Communications created the Black Hills broadcast division, New Rushmore Radio, now known as Rushmore Media Company, Inc. Schurz Communications announced on September 14, 2015 that it would exit broadcasting and sell its television and radio stations, including KOUT, to

Gray Television Gray Television, Inc. is an American publicly traded television broadcasting company based in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1946 by James Harrison Gray as Gray Communications Systems, the company owns or operates 180 stations across the United St ...

for $442.5 million. Though Gray initially intended to keep Schurz' radio stations, on November 2, it announced that

would acquire KOUT and the other Rushmore Media Company radio stations for $2.2 million; the deal reunites the stations with

KBHB KBHB (810 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a farm/news related format. Licensed to Sturgis, South Dakota, United States, it serves the Rapid City area. The station is currently owned by HomeSlice Media Group and features programming from ...

and KKLS, which HomeSlice acquired from Schurz in 2014 following its purchase of

KOTA-TV KOTA-TV (channel 3) is a television station in Rapid City, South Dakota, United States, affiliated with ABC. It is owned by Gray Television alongside MeTV affiliate KHME (channel 23) and low-power Fox affiliate KEVN-LD (channel 7). The station ...

. The sale to HomeSlice Media was consummated on February 15, 2016 at a price of $2.5 million.

References

External links

KOUT official website

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