Cliff Dumas’ Alaska First Media is acquiring the nine stations and fourteen translators in Juneau, Ketchikan, and Sitka AK from the bankruptcy receiver of BTC USA Holdings Management as the stalking horse bidder.
Dumas, who owned 80% of BTC USA Holdings Management prior to the bankruptcy, will pay $1,280,797.59 for the properties with $380,797.59 allocated for the stations and licenses and $900,000 for the real estate property. The company had entered receivership in early 2025 after defaulting on a loan from ATB Financial for $8,155,974.17 Canadian. The company, which operates as Local First Media Group, purchased Frontier Media LLC’s stations in Alaska and Texarkana AR/TX in October 2022 for $1.3 million and agreed to purchase J&J Broadcasting’s five stations in northern Michigan in November 2022 for the same price but never closed on that deal.
Dumas will reacquire the following stations:
Juneau
- Country “Taku 105” 105.1 KTKU Juneau
- Hot AC “Mix 106” 106.3 KSUP Juneau
- Sports “Hawk 107.9” K300AB Juneau/KSUP-HD2
- News/Talk 630 KJNO/97.5 K248DQ Juneau
- Full Service Oldies 800 KINY/94.9 K235DA/103.5 K278GE Juneau and additional translators 103.9 K280DX Angoon, 103.7 K279AF Haines, 103.9 K280ED Hoonah, 103.5 K278GE Kake and 104.7 K284AM Skagway
- Classic Hits “93.3/1330 KXJ” KXXJ/K227DP Juneau
Ketchikan
- “Gateway Country” 106.7 KGTW Ketchikan/98.3 K252EJ Wrangell/99.5 K258AD Craig
- Talk/AC 930 KTKN/93.3 K227DQ/97.5 K248AI Ketchikan
Sitka
The company also operates Rock 99.9 KFMJ Ketchikan.
Dumas previously has held roles that include hosting mornings for KUZZ Bakersfield, KRST Albuquerque, and KSON San Diego, and serving as Chief Content Officer of Pattison Media’s Everything Podcasts. He is a member of the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame for hosting mornings at KHAM Hamilton and CISS-FM Toronto, was the voice of CMT Canada and the Canadian Country Music Awards, and produced and hosted many Canadian Country music specials.
