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Northwest Arkansas KURM officially sold

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KURM 790 AM and it's associated translator have been sold to Lykins Broadcasting, LLC for $250,000. John Lykins is the principal of Rox Radio Group.

According to the contracts, the buyer will be leasing the land from KERM Inc.
 
Truth be told, $700,000 for the whole ball of wax was more than I thought they'd get for it. $250,000 for an AM license and an FM translator that doesn’t get out of Booger County without getting the land sounds like paying too much to me.
 
KilowattKat said:
It will be interesting to see what they do with it. At least it didn't end up in the hands of a God caster, thank goodness...
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I can get behind that. I'm also glad it's not being permanently exiled to the annals of history.

Rox Radio, BTW, has reimaged itself as 479 Media. It has its own branded app and everything now. And, to think, when I first arrived in Arkansas for college in January 1994, the entire state was the 501!
 
I'm impressed at the longevity of The X which is now a Rox station. A lot of smaller market alternatives came and went, but they seem to have developed a formula that works and stayed viable. Good for them.
 


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