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watts. Southwest attempted to sell the station in 1985 to Elmer Dancy, owner of an oil company, for $ 385,000, offering to finance the purchase if the seller could not arrange financing. However, Dancy ultimately could not work financially, and the bank foreclosed on the station; Southwest repurchased the station in 1991 after filing to receive the license from the bankruptcy trustee two years earlier.
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the new station and prompting over 8,000 phone calls, before revealing the stunt was designed to promote KPBA as mostly music. Kent held a majority stake in KPBA until 1964, when Bruce
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October 16, 1957, beginning commercial operation on October 22. The station was owned by W. L. Kent, trading as Radio Pine Bluff, and operated during the daytime with 1,000 watts. Four days in, on October 25, it played the same record over and over for six hours, drawing hundreds to
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Southwest Communications purchased the outlet for $ 307,000. Under Southwest, KYDE was an urban radio station programmed to serve the African American community in Pine Bluff. It also received approval to begin broadcasting at night with 500
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