KZYP

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KZYP
City of license Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Branding Zyp 99
Frequency 99.3 MHz
Format Urban Adult Contemporary
ERP 3,000 watts
HAAT 48 meters (157 feet)
Class A
Facility ID 33726
Transmitter Coordinates 34°11′33″N, 92°02′42″W
Owner Community Broadcast Group Inc.
(M.R.S. Ventures, Inc.)
Sister stations KPBQ-FM, KOTN, KCLA

KZYP (99.3 FM, "Zyp 99") is a radio station licensed to serve Pine Bluff, Arkansas, USA. The station is owned by M.R.S. Ventures, Inc. It airs an Urban Adult Contemporary music format.[1]

The station was assigned the KZYP call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on September 7, 1984.[2]

[edit] Ownership

In April 2002, Tyler, Texas based Community Broadcast Group Inc., through its MRS Ventures subsidiary, purchased four Pine Bluff radio stations from SeArk Radio and Delta Radio of Pine Bluff. SeArk Radio, owned by Dawn Deane, sold FM stations KPBQ-FM and KZYP plus AM station KCLA.[3] Delta Radio, owned by W.M. "Buddy" and Helen Deane, sold AM station KOTN. KOTN sold for a reported for $350,000 and the other three sold for a combined $1.05 million.[4]

Buddy Deane bought his first radio station, KOTN, in 1960 and moved from Baltimore, where he had hosted a dance-show known as the Buddy Deane Show, in 1964.[5] (This show was parodied as the Corny Collins Show by John Waters in the film Hairspray.)[6] 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.[7]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Station Information Profile. Arbitron.
  2. ^ Call Sign History. FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.
  3. ^ "Community Broadcast Group Inc. buys 4 Pine Bluff stations", Arkansas Business, 2002-04-22. 
  4. ^ "Changing Hands", Broadcasting & Cable, 2002-04-29. 
  5. ^ "Big Pine Bluff radio deal", Arkansas Business, 2003-05-12. 
  6. ^ 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. 
  7. ^ "Radio pioneer Buddy Deane dies", USA Today, 2003-07016. 

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