Due to space considerations, some information about the “Petitions to Deny” the license transfer of KFUO-99.1 FM from the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod to Gateway Creative Broadcasting - which were filed with the Federal Communications Commission late Monday afternoon - had…

The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod’s proposed sale of KFUO-99.1 FM to Gateway Creative Broadcasting hit some bumps on its road to approval by the Federal Communications Commission.

Two more “Petitions to Deny Assignment of License” to Gateway, also known as Joy FM,…

This just appeared in my email: a “petition to deny” has been filed with the Federal Communications Commission over the proposed sale of KFUO-99.1 FM from the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod to Gateway Creative Broadcasting, aka Joy FM.

The petitioners allege collusion…

The period for filing comments with the Federal Communications Commission concerning the plan of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod to sell KFUO-99.1 FM (aka “Classic99″) to Gateway Creative Broadcasting (aka “Joy FM”) comes to an end on Monday, November 30 (aka…

You may recall that Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod board member-paid counsel-spokesman Kermit Brashear put every LCMS employee under a gag order back in October: no one employed by the MoSyn except Brashear is allowed to speak publicly about the sale of KFUO-99.1 FM…

Yesterday on the Culture Club, I posted prominent Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod layman and attorney Robert Duesenberg’s first letter to LCMS president Gerald Kieschnick and board chairman Donald Muchow about Omaha lawyer-politician-lobbyist-MoSyn board member-paid counsel-spokesman Kermit Brashear. As noted, the response to…

“It’s not a done deal,” says Neal Rabe of Washington, Missouri.

Rabe is a member of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod; now retired, he worked for a Lutheran insurance company, and even worked for the Synod at one point in his career.…

Kermit Brashear (Lincoln Star Journal photo)

Kermit Allen Brashear, II
Age: 63 (b. 3/16/1944)
Hometown: Omaha, Nebraska
Occupation: lawyer-politician-lobbyist

Two members of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod’s board of directors have driven the sale of KFUO-99.1 FM to Joy FM, now in the comments phase of…

Several readers report they’ve had trouble finding the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod/Gateway Creative Broadcasting application to transfer KFUO-99.1 FM’s license from the MoSyn to Joy FM on the FCC’s website.

Another reader sent a link to the application: you can find it…

The license assignment applicationto transfer ownership of KFUO-99.1 FM from the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod to Gateway Creative Broadcasting, aka Joy FM, was accepted by the FCC on Tuesday, and industry experts are taking a look.

The filing starts the official comment…