KQLO (1590 AM) was a radio station broadcasting a Spanish-language news/talk format. Formerly licensed to Sun Valley, Nevada, United States, it served the Reno, Nevada area. The station, which broadcast from 1984 to 2011, was last owned by Jireh Media, Inc. History Early years George L. Chambers, who owned two FM radio stations in California, put KYOR—a 1,000-watt, daytime-only station—on the air on January 1, 1984, and sold it that same year to KSRN (104.5 FM) owner RAESCO, Inc., for $127,000. The call letters were changed to KSRN, and a format of country music with some specialty Spanish-language programs was instituted on October 22. In late 1985, the KSRN stations were sold to Olympic Broadcasting of Seattle for $2.11 million. In January 1987, KSRN-FM relaunched as country KIIQ "Kick FM", and the middle-of-the-road sound long associated with the 104.5 frequency moved to 1590 AM. The separate format was short-lived; on November 6, 1987, the call letters were changed to KIIQ, and the AM began simulcasting the FM. In 1988, KIIQ took on the call letters KHIT after Olympic Broadcasting sold the station it owned that used those call letters in San Francisco. That same year, the stations were sold to Euphonic Broadcasting, owned by Terry Gillingham, in a $2.5 million transaction. Gillingham flipped KHIT to talk, but the station trailed KOH (630 AM) in the ratings. The cluster was also falling on hard financial times. In October 1990, Gillingham missed a mortgage payment to BayBanks of Boston, which appointed a receiver to manage the affairs of the business. BayBanks wielded the axe and made major cost cuts. On January 22, 1991—even in the middle of the Gulf War—the station dropped all of its talk programs and began simulcasting KIIQ again. In June, the live disc jockeys on the country format were fired and replaced with programming from the Satellite Music Network, again on the receiver's orders. KIIQ and KHIT, remaining a simulcast the whole time, were sold out of receivership to Radio Associates, Inc., in 1991, and then to Lotus Communications in 1993. It remained a simulcast until 1995, when Lotus opted to purchase the higher-powered 630 AM facility in Reno to replace 1590 AM. In purchasing Olympic Broadcasters's 630 station, the sale was structured such that Wagenvoord Advertising Group would buy half of that station, then trade it for KHIT. Under Wagenvoord, 1590 became a talk station using the