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mmmm ■ ■Two radio stations purchasedBy BOB WERLE YThe Yuma Daily SunA Texas firm plans to buy Yuma radio stations KTTI-FM and KBLU-AM in a deal totaling about $2 million, it was announced today.Sun Country Broadcasting Inc. of Tyler, Texas will be the new owner, according to Jim Evans, founder and president of Purr Broadcasting Inc., owner of KTTI. Evans will remain as the chief executive officer of the new firmBob Crites, president of ('rites Broadcasting Corp , owner of KBLU, said he is retiring from broadcasting.KTTI is the No 1 station in theYuma market, according to Arbitron Surveys, and KBLU is No. 2, Evans said.We are getting Yuma’s No. 1 and 2 radio stations under the same ownership and in the same building,” he said The two stations will keep their own entities with separate sales staffs. All this, naturally, is pending FCC approval, but we are very confident of that .Evans said a new building in the neighborhood of 5,000 square feet’ will be built on the property just off 1st Street between 19th and 20th avenues KBLU’s two transmitting towers are on the property, with studios in the Tower Plaza Shopping Center, 4th Avenue and 14th Street, Evans said'The KTTI building at 843 Avenue B will be sold and the tower there dismantled,’’ he added. Programming of both stationswill remain much the same as they are now — KTTI country and KBLU contemporary Evans added that more emphasis will be put on promotion and community involvementDale Palmer, president of Sun Country Broadcasting, flew to Yuma Tuesday and was meeting with station staffs today. Evans said the staffs learned of the sale at a meeting Tuesday night. He said no changes are planning in personnel.Sun Country also has stations in Tyler and Beaumont, Texas.
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Yuma Sun
Yuma, Arizona, US
Wed, May 18, 1983
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