CLICK ON YOUR BROWSER'S BACK BUTTON TO RETURN TO THE MAIN NEWS PAGE. From: "Charles Boehnke" <ccb3@prodigy.net> To: macpro@lava.net Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 12:20:38 -1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Brewer Priority: normal Taken from the Hawaii Tribune Herald, December 10, 1998 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- KBIG-FM, 3 other radio stations being sold to mainland firm. Popular station owed by Brewer for past 16 years. ---------------------------- By Hunter Bishop Tribune-Herald --------------------------- Brewer Broadcasting is planning to sell its four Big Island radio stations to a mainland firm. Brewer Broadcasting owner Phil Brewer said Wednesday that a mainland firm has offered to buy the radio stations for an undisclosed price. Brewer will sell its Hilo flagship station KBIG-FM, KKOA-FM, and KHLO-AM, all of which broadcast in East Hawaii, as well as its West Hawaii station, KLEO-FM.

CLICK ON YOUR BROWSER'S BACK BUTTON TO RETURN TO THE MAIN NEWS PAGE. From: "Charles Boehnke" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 12:20:38 -1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Brewer Priority: normal Taken from the Hawaii Tribune Herald, December 10, 1998 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- KBIG-FM, 3 other radio stations being sold to mainland firm. Popular station owed by Brewer for past 16 years. ---------------------------- By Hunter Bishop Tribune-Herald --------------------------- Brewer Broadcasting is planning to sell its four Big Island radio stations to a mainland firm. Brewer Broadcasting owner Phil Brewer said Wednesday that a mainland firm has offered to buy the radio stations for an undisclosed price. Brewer will sell its Hilo flagship station KBIG-FM, KKOA-FM, and KHLO-AM, all of which broadcast in East Hawaii, as well as its West Hawaii station, KLEO-FM.
he stations, Brewer said. Applications have been submitted to the Federeal Communications Commission for approval, which must be attained before the transfer can be completed. That apporval is expected in March, Brewer said. Emerald City partner Paul Robinason could not be reached for comment. But Brewer said the new owner intends to keep the current employees and continue to run the stations as they have been. Brewer purchased KBIG in 1982. "There's been dramatic growth since then," he said. The Big Island media company has grown from two employees in 1982 to 28 employees today. The two orginal employees, Jeanine Atebara and Rod Pacheco, are still with Brewer Broadcasting in Hilo. Following the purchase of KBIG, oneof the island's more popular stations, Brewer aquired KHLO in 1990 and built KLEO in 1992 and KKOA in 1996. The sale includes transmitter sites and studios in Hilo and Kona. Brewer said the Kona station broadcasts live most of the day.
Brewer. "I did well and Hawaii treated me well." Brewer said the radio industry has been "holding its own" on the Big Island in recent years, but with more than a dozen stations serving local markets, the Big Island is dense with competition for its size. "I think that offers diversity to the listeners," he said. Brewer expressed confidence in the prospecrtive new owners. "They are very good at what they do." # # # ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CLICK ON YOUR BROWSER'S BACK BUTTON TO RETURN TO THE MAIN NEWS PAGE.