KZYP (Malvern, Arkansas)

Last updated
KZYP
City Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Frequency 99.3 MHz
BrandingZyp 99
Programming
Format Defunct (license cancelled May 2011)
Ownership
OwnerCommunity Broadcast Group Inc.
(M.R.S. Ventures, Inc.)
KPBQ-FM, KOTN, KCLA
Technical information
Facility ID 33726
Class A
ERP 3,000 watts
HAAT 48 meters (157 feet)
Transmitter coordinates
 34°11′33″N92°02′42″W / 34.19250°N 92.04500°W / 34.19250; -92.04500

KZYP (99.3 FM) was an American radio station licensed to serve Pine Bluff, Arkansas, United States. The station was most recently owned by Community Broadcast Group, Inc., and its broadcast license held by M.R.S. Ventures, Inc.

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The station was assigned the KZYP call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on September 7, 1984. [1] When the station ceased broadcasting in early 2007, it aired an Urban Adult Contemporary music format branded as "Zyp 99". [2]

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 died shortly thereafter in July 2003. [7]

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, KZYP 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 KZYP call sign assignment was deleted permanently from the FCC database.

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References

  1. ↑ "Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database. Retrieved June 5, 2010.
  2. ↑ "Station Information Profile". Arbitron. Archived from the original on 2010-03-01.
  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!". Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters (1st ed.). New York, NY: MacMillan Publishing Company. p. 89. ISBN   0-02-624440-3.
  7. ↑ "Radio pioneer Buddy Deane dies". USA Today. 2003-07-16.


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