This was worth it back in the days when Long Distance was a meaningful expense.
Kids today will never know the pleasure of getting a multipage phone bill around $500 when their girlfriends still have a semester of college left! When I worked for Sprint, people often talked about the days when long distance would just be a flat fee. They thought it was 10-20 years off. It happened about five years after I left, and it happened suddenly.
THe Colonel, Kermit is having a major medical procedure done and doesnt htink the stations can run without him. One son is congressman and doesnt want them and one kid of Colonel's that does want them isn't the right fit for operating the stations
Pretty sure my first semester at the University of Arkansas was Steve Womack's last. I never met him, but I seem to remember his name coming up occasionally in conversations with a couple friends in the Army ROTC program. I know the ROTC programs there were brutal compared to the ones I heard about after I transferred to the University of Missouri. Arkansas also only had Army and Air Force ROTC, no Navy. A couple people I knew in the ROTC program at Arkansas transferred because they wanted an easier program.
The licenses are for sale if someone wants them, but the AM site is worth a pretty big ass penny, being in a major residential area next to a school
Unless things have changed, the Womacks also farm on that site. Not that they'd never be interested in unloading it, but, if the family farm is successful and/or enjoyable for them, they might not have any interest in letting it go for the time being. Despite the growth in Washington and Benton Counties, most of the growth around Rogers seems to be centered on I-49 (which didn't even exist when I was there). I was there a few months ago visiting family, and downtown Rogers, while definitely not suffering, had more empty storefronts than it did a couple years earlier. That doesn't mean that AM site and family farm isn't going to be worth something to a developer, though.
Geez, I was looking at KURM-FM, and it's not very good. Class A with most of the coverage where there are few, or no population.
I guess one could consider it a rimshot to Springdale, catching the edge of Bentonville along the way. Unfortunately, I can't imagine they'll get much for this station.
It doesn't cover much of the populated area of Northwest Arkansas at all. I suppose it could catch the eye of a speculator, though. With that way that area is growing, I can't imagine it covering greenspace indefinitely. It was a move-in from South West City, MO. The AM licensed to South West City, KLTK 1140, made its own move into Northwest Arkansas a few years later and runs Spanish-language programming and has an FM translator around Bentonville. That translator probably serves a larger population than 100.3 serves. One of the big problems serving that area has been that Washington and Benton Counties were largely considered two distinct entities when the table of allotments was being created. Stations were generally designed to cover one or the other, but not both. KEZA 107.9 was the first commercial station signed on that could cover the whole area (and even down to Ft. Smith). I seem to remember KKEG wanted 107.9 so it could move there, but the station was ultimately awarded to Kim Hendren (a cousin of previous governor, Asa Hutchinson, who also owned a couple stations with his family). In the early 90's, the stations that could upgraded so they could cover the whole area, but many of them had to move further away from the population centers to upgrade. Those that are near Garfield are practically in Missouri, and I often had trouble picking them up on ordinary radios in Fayetteville. With all the moves and upgrades that happened 10-15 years earlier, 100.3 had fewer opportunities. It has to protect 100.7 in Ft. Smith, which the Hernreichs upgraded around 1990, as well as 100.1 in Kimberling City. It can't move very far in any direction that would benefit it.
