 KXAK, a contemporary Christian music station initially owned by Harold S. Schwartz and Associates, had been years in the making; the Federal Communications Commission had granted the permit in December 1979, but the station had suffered an unexpected setback when county commissioners denied the station's application to build a transmitter site in 1983 after KDEF, to which KXAK would have been adjacent, objected.In 1986, a year after putting KXAK on the air, Schwartz sold its network of religious radio stations to management in a $9 million buyout; the new owners operated as the Mid-America Gospel Radio Network.Mid-America Gospel sold KXAK for $425,000 to the Daytona Group in 1987.