The various members of the Ingstad family are continuing to purchase stations around Fargo with the purchase of three stations from Dakota Broadcasting.
Brooke Ingstad’s Radio Wahpeton Breckenridge will acquire Classic Hits “106.9 The Eagle” KEGK Wahpeton ND from Dakota Broadcasting for $600,000. Brooke is in the process of acquiring Country 1450 KBMW Breckenridge from her father James Ingstad’s Radio Fargo-Moorhead and Classic Hits “92.7 The Drive” KZDR Kindred ND from her cousin Robert Ingstad III and moving it out of the Fargo market to Breckenridge MN.
Robert Ingstad will partner with his siblings Tallie Colville, Tami Ingstad Knudson, and Todd Ingstad to purchase Dakota’s Farm 890 KQLX and Country “Thunder 106.1” KQLX-FM Lisbon ND for $1 million under the name I3G Radio.
James Ingstad’s Radio Fargo-Moorhead owns five stations and two HD fed translators in the Fargo market. Outside of Midwest Communications four FMs, members of the Ingstad family will own every commercial FM in the Fargo market. Other members of the Ingstad family own stations throughout the northern tier of the country.