KHLY
KHLY (1440 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Hailey, Idaho. The station is currently owned by Scott Parker, through licensee Sun Valley Media Group, LLC. History. The call sign, “KHLY” was first assigned to the World War II, Liberty Ship, SS PIERRE L’ENFANT, O.N. 243687 by the United States Coast Guard (USCG) , built in 1943. The ship was sold in 1946 to commercial interests and after several owners, eventually grounded on the Black Sea near Tuapse and declared a total loss in 1970. Almost 50 years later, and upon the request of Sun Valley Media Group LLC  to use this call sign for a new commercial AM radio station at Hailey, Idaho, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the USCG released this call sign on September 5, 2019. Following that action, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) then assigned these call letters to the AM radio station in Hailey. The AM frequency was first licensed as KBET, on January 25, 2002 at Pocatello, Idaho, and renewed on December 1, 2005. On December 18, 2008, radio industry website 100000watts.com reported that KPTO had gone silent. On May 29, 2009, the Fifth District Court in Washington County, Utah appointed  a receiver to take over KPTO for US Capital, Incorporated of Boulder, Colorado. The investment company foreclosed on Legacy Media, owner of KPTO, along with several other stations. On November 19, 2013, the receiver sold the station for $41,000 to Ted Austin's Main Street Broadcasting, LLC in a District Court-approved sale, which was conditioned upon the FCC renewing the station's license. On May 16, 2014, KPTO was subsequently sold for $75,000 by Main Street to Freedom's Voice Broadcasting Corporation, co-owned by Tim Aalders and Anthony Bean. On June 17, 2014, Aalders paid $ 32,000 and assumed sole ownership of the station under Freedom's Voice Radio LLC. Effective March 27, 2017, Aadlers sold the station for $22,000 to current owner, Sun Valley Media Group, LLC, headed by Scott Parker. Parker moved the station more than 100 miles (northwest) from Bannock County to Blaine County, Idaho. The station's call sign of "KPTO" was changed to “KHLY” on September 12, 2019, to reflect its new community of license of Hailey, where a new radio tower was constructed. Parker also signed-on an FM translator station (K279DA) in Sun Valley, which re-broadcasts the  station on 103.7 MHz. Programming was re-launched on January 1, 2020.