Claim: KATO, owned by the Sierra Broadcasting Company and notable for being the second radio station in Reno, eventually became KXEQ when it was sold to Rolando Collantes in 1991.
Evidence: Owned by the Sierra Broadcasting Company, KATO was a Don Lee/Mutual affiliate and broadcast with 250 watts from a transmitter at Sixth and Cassinella streets on the eastern edge of town. Reno got its second radio station when KATO signed on for the first time on July 9, 1946. As a debtor-in-possession, it sold KRCV to Rolando Collantes, owner of KSVN in Ogden, Utah and KGEN in Tulare, California, for $30,000 in 1991. KXEQ debuted on 1340 AM on December 14, 1991, as "La Super Q", with studios in a converted house on Linden Street.