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-- Broadcasting & Cable, 5/22/2000
KLUV(AM) Dallas
Price: $16 million
Buyer: Radio One Inc., Lanham, Md. (Alfred C. Liggins III, president); owns/is buying 49 radio stations, including KBFB(FM) Dallas
Seller: Infinity Broadcasting Corp., New York (Mel Karmazin, chairman/CEO); owns/is buying 182 radio stations, including KLUV-FM, KRBV(FM), KRLD(AM) and KYNG(FM) Dallas, khvn(am)-koai(fm) Fort Worth/Dallas and KVIL-FM Highland Park/Dallas. Infinity also plans to sell khvn, since parent CBS Corp. merged into Viacom Inc. on May 4. Viacom now owns both KTVT-TV and KTXA(TV) Dallas/Fort Worth; the FCC says broadcasters with TV duopolys can own just six radio stations in a major market, rather than eight
Facilities: 1190 kHz, 50 kW day, 5 kW night
Format: Oldies; to be urban
KCKN(AM) Roswell/Carlsbad, N.M.
Price: $2.5 million
Buyer: James Crystal Licenses LLC, West Palm Beach, Fla. (James C. Hilliard, president/owner); owns WFTL(AM) Fort Lauderdale and wdja(am), wjna(am), WRLX(FM) and WRMF(FM) West Palm Beach, Fla.
Seller: Roswell Radio Inc., Roswell (John M. and Trisha Dunn, principals); own KBCQ(FM) Roswell
Facilities: 1020 kHz, 50 kW
Format: News/talk, AC, Spanish, religious
Broker: Explorer Communications Inc.
