NOTE: Video above is from February 15, 2025

ST. LOUIS — On Wednesday morning, a court hearing took place regarding the sale of KDHX to Gateway Creative Broadcasting Inc., which owns two Christian networks, K-LOVE Inc. and JOY! FM.

More than a dozen listeners and former volunteers for KDHX sent a request to a federal bankruptcy judge in an attempt to stop the sale of KDHX to K-LOVE Inc. ahead of Wednesday’s hearing that could approve the final sale.

In early April, KDHX, the 88.1 FM radio station, began broadcasting for a Christian network, K-LOVE, Inc., following the station’s bankruptcy. Last month, the community radio station announced it had sold its FCC license and broadcast tower in an agreement signed with K-LOVE Inc.

According to our partners at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Gateway Creative Broadcasting Inc., which also owns 99.1 JOY! FM, filed a motion in U.S. Bankruptcy Court on Monday offering to buy KDHX’s assets for $5.5 million, which is over a million more than what K-LOVE initially offered.

In March, K-LOVE agreed with KDHX to buy the assets for $4.35 million. The Post-Dispatch reports the price would increase to $4.85 million if the sale could be completed in less than 6 months and decrease to $4.6 million if it could be done in six months to one year.

In a filing on Monday, Gateway said it had first offered to purchase the KDHX license and assets for the $5.5 million back in December. The letter of intent from December also included a $400,000 loan so the station could continue broadcasting until the sale was complete.

The Post-Dispatch reports that Gateway’s filing on Monday included a $500,000 loan and said it would be equal to or better than the term of the loan made by K-LOVE.

In March, KDHX filed for Chapter Eleven bankruptcy, which stemmed from a period when the radio station lost 24 of its 80 volunteer disc jockeys in September 2023 due to firings or walkouts, impacting its revenue.