388:. The station suffered a fire on April 5, 1964, that completely destroyed its studio and transmitter building on Smelter Avenue; several business records were protected in a filing cabinet, but the station lost its entire record library Hadlock sold the station to Leo Graybill of Great Falls in 1965. Graybill established Frontier Broadcasting to own the business, with stock in Frontier owned by his family. In the early 1970s, the Graybill family sold some stock to KUDI's general manager, Jerry Hartline.
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