the president of contemporary media was michael s. rice. in 1994, rice was convicted of sexually abusing five teenagers in missouri. the next year, the federal communications commission opened a hearing to revoke the licenses of all of the stations owned by contemporary media and its sister companies, contemporary broadcasting and lake broadcasting. together, the companies also owned eldon's kbmx, as well as two additional unbuilt stations in the state and a cluster of three stations in terre haute, indiana.