PORT ANGELES — A second commercial Port Angeles radio station will focus on music rather than talk when it debuts in mid-July.
KSTI-FM will start to operate at 102.1 megahertz with a classic top-40 music format at 6 a.m. July 15, said Brown M. Maloney, owner of Radio Pacific that will own and operate the station.
Radio Pacific operates KONP AM-FM in Port Angeles. KONP’s primary programming is talk radio, including such syndicated personalities as Rush Limbaugh. It also carries news shows and sports events such as Seattle Mariners, Seattle Seahawks and high school games.
The North Olympic Peninsula’s only other commercial radio stations are KFKB-AM and KBDB-FM, owned by Forks Broadcasting Inc. in Forks.
Noncommercial radio stations KSQM-FM and KPTZ-FM operate out of Sequim and Port Townsend, respectively.
Maloney said KSTI’s musical lineup will feature hit music from the late 1960s into the early 1990s.
Radio Pacific acquired the license for the 102.1 FM frequency from Vicksburg, Miss.-based Owensville Communications, which had won the frequency in a 2012 Federal Communications Commission auction.
Owensville owner Mark Jones approached Maloney about Radio Pacific acquiring the license.
“I am most pleased that Mark first offered us the opportunity to purchase this FM frequency,” Maloney said in a statement Tuesday.
“Mark, who owns two radio stations in his hometown of Vicksburg, has come to know and love Port Angeles.”
Concurrent with the acquisition of KSTI, Maloney said KONP station manager Todd Ortloff will become general manager of both stations.
The KSTI studios will operate out of office space next door to KONP in a building owned by Maloney at 721 E. First St.