Jamar instead sold KBIL in 1983 to Triangle Texas Media of Tyler. The new owners inherited the second-most-listened-to station in town; two years later, however, they sued Jamar and the manufacturer of the transmitter for misrepresentations. It claimed Jamar inflated cash flow figures for the station and thus overvalued it by at least $500,000 and that CSI Electronics had produced a defective transmitter and would not fix it. The civil case went to a jury trial in 1987. In 1984, Triangle Texas acquired a daytime-only AM station, KHOS (1420 AM), and renamed it KBIL. By 1990, KBIL AM had split off again with an oldies format.
