WCPC Houston MS goes for 200K

[oldiesstation]

MISSISSIPPI

WCPC-AM/Houston (Tupelo)
PRICE: $200,000
TERMS: Asset sale
BUYER: Wilkins Communications Network Inc., headed by President Robert Wilkins. Phone: 864-585-1885. It owns 14 other stations. This represents its entry into this market.
SELLER: WCPC Broadcasting, headed by President Robin Mathis. Phone: 662-456-3071
FREQUENCY: 940 kHz
POWER: 50kw day/250 watts night
FORMAT: Country/Gospel
COMMENT: WCPC Broadcasting Co. Inc.'s WCPC-AM/Houston, MS to Wilkins Communications Network Inc. for $200,000 including a $10,000 escrow deposit.

 

[NE Miss Radio]

This transfer would seem to mark the end of a 50-plus year career of a real gentleman owner/operator, Mr. Robin Mathis. We were (friendly) competitors and I can tell you that I can't remember a nicer person in radio.

Enjoy your retirement, Mr. Robin. You earned it.

 

[PaulBWalkerJr]

I want an aircheck of them before they drop the current local format... can anyone help??

[email protected]

 

[aeulgr1]

This transfer would seem to mark the end of a 50-plus year career of a real gentleman owner/operator, Mr. Robin Mathis. We were (friendly) competitors and I can tell you that I can't remember a nicer person in radio.

Enjoy your retirement, Mr. Robin. You earned it.

Once again, all I can say is SAD!!!

 

[markoni]

Wow talk about a GIANT in Mississippi Radio... I listened to WCPC in the 60s mannnnn! There are not many who can keep a station goin' that long!

 

[RFLA]

Sorry to hear someone leaving radio like that but as they said wish a great retirement for him.

One thing I did notice. The actual purchaser is Cajun Radio Corp., which was a company that was formed to try to buy a Louisiana station but later failed but is owned by Wilkins)

I'm wondering if it will be a full on format flip, or like Wilkins agreed to at first in the Louisiana property, to run a mix of the former format as well as his Wilkins programming.

RFLA