Less than three months after closing on their acquisition of the facility, Big Toe Media has surrendered the license of 590 KLIS Wood River IL/St. Louis MO to the FCC.
Big Toe Media, led by Dave Greene and Conrad Thompson, agreed to acquire the former KFNS from Zobrist Media last year for $250,000 and relaunched the station on June 1, 2025 as “The Lou Information Station” KLIS. The station was promoted as carrying a mix of programming covering multiple subjects including current events, local sports, business, music, wellness and mental health, food, entertainment and comedy with contributors including FanDuel Sports Midwest’s Jim Hayes, former St. Louis Blues player Cam Janssen, former KPNT host Tony Patrico, City Lifestyle magazine owners Kelley Lamm and Gordon Montgomery, St. Louis American Sports Editor Earl Austin Jr., and longtime St. Louis personality Charlie ‘Tuna’ Edwards. The station also featured the syndicated Dave Ramsey and “America Tonight with Kate Delaney”. The sale closed on December 23.
The 590 facility in St. Louis has had its share of financial issues over the past decade plus. KFNS was the primary all-Sports station in the market until Hubbard’s launch of “101 ESPN” WXOS in 2009. The station flipped to Hot Talk in 2013 as “590 The Man” and then went silent in November 2014 ahead of a failed sale out of bankruptcy to a religious group. The Sports format returned in November 2015 via LMA just days prior to when the license would have expired. Zobrist Media would acquire the station in 2021 for $450,000. All local programming was eliminated in June 2024.
