KCLA

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KCLA
City of license Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Branding Classic 1400
Frequency 1400 kHz
Format Nostalgia
Power 1,000 watts (unlimited)
Class C
Facility ID 33725
Transmitter Coordinates 34°11′33.00″N 92°2′42.00″W / 34.1925, -92.045
Callsign meaning CLAssic
Affiliations Jones Radio Network
Owner Community Broadcast Group Inc.
(M.R.S. Ventures, Inc.)
Sister stations KOTN, KPBQ-FM, KZYP

KCLA (1400 AM, "Classic 1400") is a radio station broadcasting a Nostalgia format. Licensed to Pine Bluff, Arkansas, USA. The station is currently owned by Community Broadcast Group Inc. and licensed to M.R.S. Ventures, Inc.[1] KCLA features programming from Jones Radio Network.

[edit] Ownership

In April 2002, Tyler, Texas based Community Broadcast Group Inc., through its MRS Ventures subsidiary, purchased four Pine Bluff radio stations from the Deane family's SeArk Radio and Delta Radio of Pine Bluff. Delta Radio, owned by W.M. "Buddy" and Helen Deane, sold AM station KOTN. SeArk Radio, owned by their daughter Dawn Deane, sold FM stations KPBQ-FM and KZYP plus AM station KCLA.[2] KOTN sold for a reported for $350,000 and the other three sold for a combined $1.05 million.[3]

Buddy Deane moved to Pine Bluff from Baltimore, where he had hosted a dance-show known as the Buddy Deane Show, in 1964.[4] (This show was parodied as the Corny Collins Show by John Waters in the film Hairspray.)[5] Deane retired from broadcasting in May 2003 after completing the sale of his family's radio stations and passed away shortly thereafter in July 2003.[6]

[edit] References

  1. ^ KCLA Facility Record. United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  2. ^ "Community Broadcast Group Inc. buys 4 Pine Bluff stations", Arkansas Business, 2002-04-22. 
  3. ^ "Changing Hands", Broadcasting & Cable, 2002-04-29. 
  4. ^ "Big Pine Bluff radio deal", Arkansas Business, 2003-05-12. 
  5. ^ Waters, John [1986]. "Ladies and Gentlemen…The Nicest Kids in Town!", Shock Value: The Obsessions of John Waters, 1st Edition (in English), New York, NY: MacMillan Publishing Company, p. 89. ISBN 0-02-62440-3. 
  6. ^ "Radio pioneer Buddy Deane dies", USA Today, 2003-07-16. 

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