KRNT Theater, Des Moines, IA

Effective March 17, 1935: KRNT - Register and Tribune building became the Columbia (CBS) affiliate in Des Moines In 1946 KRNT purchased Shrine Auditorium (built in 1927 by the Za-Ga-Zig Shrine Temple of Des Moines) for $150, 000.00. The Auditorium was located between 9th and 10th Streets on Pleasant Street, next door to the Northwestern Bell Telephone Company building. Shrine Auditorium's name was changed to KRNT Theater. New studios for KRNT were built next to the Auditorium, and in the late 1940s KRNT moved from the Register and Tribune building. The facility was known as the KRNT Center. It included facilities for television, and it was interconnected with KRNT Theater. On July 29, 1974, KRNT was purchased by Stauffer Communications, Inc. of Topeka, Kansas, for $1,150,000.00. KRNT continued under Stauffer operation until August 1988, when the station, along with its sister FM, KRNQ, was acquired by Saga Communications, Inc.