I found it.. it was Senator John Decamp, here's some excerpts from two archived article about the station..
Former state senator DeCamp to start radio stationBy JEFF KORBELIK / Lincoln Journal Star
Dec 29, 2009
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..DeCamp, a 68-year-old Lincoln attorney and former state senator who lives in Clatonia, said he'll launch KOLD in mid-January, first on the Internet and later on the radio dial at 1710 AM. The low-power, 24-hour commercial station will feature 1950s and '60s music in the mornings, progressive talk in the afternoons and such classic radio shows as "The Shadow" and "The Jack Benny Show" in the evenings and overnight...
...Because it's low-power -- operating at one-half watt -- KOLD is not required to be licensed by the Federal Communications Commission... ..The station will operate from the second floor of a building owned by DeCamp on North 11th Street in downtown Lincoln. Much of the equipment, including a sound board and computer servers already are in place.
DeCamp will put up seven antennas in Lincoln and several more in towns including Wilber, Crete, Hallam, Wahoo, Clatonia and Waverly. He declined to say how much the venture is costing him.
"I have no idea," he joked. "It's like most other things I do."... DeCamp said he's launching the radio station because no other station is playing the kind of music he enjoys... "We're going to have some fun and see what we can do."
JAnother..
KOLD begins streaming Monday morningJournal Star Jan 10, 2010
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KOLD 1710 AM is up and running -- sort of. The new radio station currently is available only on the Internet.. ..The station also will be available soon, if not already, at
www.kold1710.comKOLD hopes to be on the AM dial later this spring in Lincoln and surrounding communities once antennas are in place, according to Communications Director Barry Reutzel...
..Reutzel said he's aware of local radio message boards with posts saying DeCamp's venture is illegal. He said KOLD has checked regularly with the Federal Communications Commission - as recently as last week -- to make sure everything is OK with its signal and call letters. "We've been very careful to toe the line (with the FCC) on this," he said.
And for some backstop about Decamp...
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"...During 16 years in office, former state Senator John DeCamp was cited, even by his enemies at the World Herald, as one of the most effective legislators in Nebraska history. A highly decorated Vietnam War veteran, in 1975 he initiated Operation Baby Lift, which evacuated 2,800 orphaned Vietnamese children. He practices law in Lincoln, Nebraska, is married, and is the father of four children.. ..Today, Senator DeCamp is the lawyer for two victim-witnesses in the Franklin case, Paul Bonacci and Alisha Owen.
DeCamp is known for his tendency to "overturn the apple cart," and powerful people shake in their boots when DeCamp files an aggressive civil rights suit. There is a method behind this approach, in a state where cowardly cover-up and pitiful inaction have become all too common...
...While still in Vietnam, DeCamp became the first person ever to win election to the Nebraska Legislature, while serving in combat abroad. ..he was not known to agree to any political deal that would compromise his principles. Senator DeCamp was regarded as powerful, but not politically "owned."..
.. As a Vietnam veteran with thirty percent disability, DeCamp has been the attorney and state lobbyist for both the Disabled American Veterans and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and a national committeeman of the VFW and member of the American Legion.
John DeCamp has emphasized that in his mind, his experience in saving the defenseless children who were victims of war, and his commitment to save children victimized by the pedophile ring, are equivalent... DeCamp has been the target of energetic and systematic efforts to bankrupt him, by behind-the-scenes pressures to deprive him of law and lobbying clients, as a result of his Franklin-related work... ..
