Rocking M Radio, Inc. a Kansas corporation is proud to announce the acquisition of fourteen radio stations from NRG Media, LLC a Delaware limited liability company, based in Cedar Rapids, IA.
Rocking M Radio is purchasing the following stations: KXXX-AM (Colby), KQLS-FM (Colby); KGNO-AM (Dodge City), KOLS-FM (Dodge City), KZRD-FM (Dodge City), KSSH-FM (Dodge City); KZLS-FM (Great Bend); KNNS-AM (Larned), KGTR-FM (Larned); KYUU-AM (Liberal), KSLS-FM (Liberal); KWLS-AM (Pratt); KQNS-FM (Salina) and KILS-FM (Salina).
Rocking M Radio is owned by Doris and Monte Miller and their son Christopher Miller. Doris and Monte have been involved in the newspaper and broadcasting business in Kansas for over 43 years. The Miller’s have decided to re-enter the broadcasting business in Kansas with the purchase of the NRG radio stations.
Doris Miller said, “We are looking forward to starting a new chapter in our family history of ownership of media properties in Kansas, this will be a great opportunity to bring our management expertise to these terrific radio stations.”
With this purchase, Rocking M Radio becomes the largest single owner of radio stations in the state of Kansas with 14 radio stations. The Miller family has long been associated with the media business in Kansas.
The Millers returned from the West Coast to Kansas in 1974, publishing newspapers in and around Lawrence for many years. They entered the commercial television business in 1988 when they built full power KMCI-TV, UHF channel 38, licensed to Lawrence, KS and part of the Kansas City television market. They managed the station until they sold it in 2000 to Scripps-Howard Broadcasting, Cincinnati, OH, owner of KSHB-TV 41, the NBC television affiliate in Kansas City.
Monte Miller’s grandfather returned from the Colorado gold rush in 1900 to buy The Belleville Telescope a weekly newspaper. A. Q. Miller, Sr.’s ownership of the Telescope was passed on to his son the late Merle Miller of Belleville. Monte’s brother Mark Miller is the 3rd generation of the Millers to publish The Belleville Telescope. A.Q. Miller, Sr.’s dedication to journalism in the state of Kansas was memorialized when KansasStateUniversity named its journalism and mass communications school the “A.Q.MillerFamilySchool of Journalism and Mass Communications.”
“We would like to thank NRG Media, Mary Quass, and her staff for affording us the opportunity to purchase these radio stations, and we look forward to continuing and expanding what NRG has started,” explained Monte Miller.
Mary Quass, President/CEO of NRG Media, LLC said, “We look forward to transferring the ownership of our Kansas radio stations to Rocking M Radio and the Miller family. NRG Media is based on our principal of Great Local Radio, and we are excited that these radio stations will continue to lead their communities under the Miller family’s commitment to the local Kansas communities that they serve.”
Christopher Miller, CEO and President of Gammon Media Brokers, LLC, of Paradise Valley, AZ, represented Rocking M Radio in the acquisition of these stations
