It closed in April 1993 when the final operator decided to sell the land for real estate development, though it was sold twice as part of package deals with other Lincoln-area stations before the license was deleted in early 1997.
A group of four men doing business as the Lancaster County Broadcasting Company obtained a construction permit to build a new radio station in Lincoln on May 1, 1963, to operate with 5,000 watts using a directional antenna.
KHAT AM, meanwhile, took on a big band music format,[12] utilizing the "Stardust" syndicated network; a local talk show hosted by station manager Cathy Fife was added in 1992.
[14] Rock Steady then filed to sell its Lincoln cluster first to a company owned by Kraig G. Fox in 1995,[15] but this sale fell through, and Triathlon Broadcasting stepped in to make the purchase of the three stations in 1996.
[16] Triathlon, however, was up against the clock: the Telecommunications Act of 1996 had introduced a new one-year time limit for a station to be silent,[17] and the cost of rebuilding the five-tower array necessary for KHAT's directional pattern caused the company not to pursue the project.