KRKD

KRKD
City of license Dermott, Arkansas
Branding Rock 105.7
Frequency 105.7 MHz
Format Defunct (license cancelled May 2011)
ERP 3,000 watts
HAAT 100 meters (328 feet)
Class A
Facility ID 86857
Former callsigns KDTL (1998-1999)[1]
Owner M.R.S. Ventures, Inc.
Sister stations KZYQ

KRKD (105.7 FM) was an American radio station licensed to serve Dermott, Arkansas, USA. The station was most recently owned by Community Broadcast Group Inc., and the broadcast license held by M.R.S. Ventures, Inc. When KRKD went off the air permanently in early 2007, it broadcast a classic rock music format branded as "Rock 105.7".

The station was assigned the KRKD call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on November 23, 1999.[1]

Ownership

In September 2003, Jerry Russell reached an agreement to purchase six stations, including KRKD, from Delta Radio Inc. for a reported combined sale price of $1.5 million.[2] According to FCC ownership records, Jerry Russell is 100% owner of MRS Ventures, Inc.[3]

In June 2006, the station's owner, Jerry D. Russell, suffered a stroke. The station was being operated by another broadcaster, Hodges Broadcasting LLC, under a local marketing agreement but that operator was unable to obtain the financing to purchase the station. With Hodges gone and Russell unable to operate the station himself, KRKD went off the air for good in early 2007. In a February 2011 letter to the FCC, the owner indicated that he was surrendering the station's broadcast license as well as the licenses for ten sister stations in similar dire circumstances. On May 2, 2011, the station's license was cancelled and the KRKD call sign assignment was deleted permanently from the FCC database.

References

  1. ^ a b "Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database. http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=86857. Retrieved May 8, 2011. 
  2. ^ "Changing Hands". Broadcasting & Cable. 2003-09-01. http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA319736.html. 
  3. ^ http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=100978487&formid=323&fac_num=33725

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KCLA (Pine Bluff) · KOTN (Pine Bluff) · KPBQ-FM (Pine Bluff) · KRKD (Dermott) · KZYP (Pine Bluff) · KZYQ (Lake Village)
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