IDAHO FALLS — An Idaho Falls businessman who already owns a health-care products company with $650 million in annual sales is thinking about expanding — into radio.
Frank Vandersloot, president of Melaleuca Inc., is in talks with Salt Lake-based Bonneville International to buy the media company's six eastern Idaho F-M and A-M stations.
Those stations are KBLI-ESPN 1620 AM, K-Bear 101, Z103, KLCE "Classy 97," 105.5 "The Hawk," and KSSL 160 AM/KSLJ 690 AM.
The six stations are being discussed as a package, the Utah company said.
Bonneville has characterized the negotiations as "very preliminary."
"We anticipate a mutually satisfactory conclusion to these negotiations," said David K. Redd, a Bonneville spokesman.
Vandersloot didn't immediately return phone calls from the Idaho Falls Post Register seeking comment on the proposed transaction.