as part of a prepackaged bankruptcy filing, the lenders took over the license of four cumulus media partners stations; two in the kansas city metro area (kchz and kmjk) and the two rimshot signals in the houston metro, khjk and kfnc in november 2011. station broker larry patrick emerged as the majority owner of the stations and set out to sell the stations to recover the value for the lenders. while cumulus lost the licenses in bankruptcy, they continued to program the stations under an lma. cumulus had the opportunity to buy the stations back, but ultimately the highest bidder for kfnc was david gow, owner of sports-formatted am station kgow and the highest bidder for khjk was the educational media foundation, a christian broadcaster. kfnc remained affiliated with espn radio following the sale to gow and no major programming changes occurred.