LANCE VENTA reports: Premiere Networks’ syndicated evening host Delilah Rene is acquiring the station where her career began. The ticket is $60,000 for Oldies 1030 KDUN Reedsport OR. The deal gives Rene her hometown station, where she began her radio career while in junior high and high school. KDUN serves the Coos Bay market along the Oregon coast and operates with 50kW day and 630 watts night.
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This station has not broadcast over the air since about 2015 when the transmitter got flooded. The transmitter is located in a flood zone. They have been exclusively steaming online via Post Rocks flagship station in southern California for the past six years. Hence, the cheap price.
Used CBSI at KMUZ Gresham and KMUZ-FM Camas in 1992. Reliable, and interfaced with the Pristine music scheduler. We had at least 20 6 pack CD players for the FM and 40 for the FM. The AM was Bonneville AC and the FM was Beautiful Music. Spots were on the computer that sequenced it all. This was so long ago but I believe we used ADPCM 8 bit, 22 kHz. files for spots. Two very early Soundblasters 16 bit sound cards for recording and playback.
I had the PC’s grounded and audio in’s and out’s wrapped in foil and grounded cage to keep hum and buzz down. We did not have balanced audio out of the computers.
My partner Bill King went to work for CBSI in a management role. Funny they hired him as he had no software, technical or PC knowledge? Bill passed away a few years back.
We were a cheap operation but broke even in our first year.
From Wikipedia, an amazing fact about this Reedsport station–it turns out there is very likely a connection to a station YOU worked for:
In 1975, KDUN’s owners, the Kenagy brothers, were frustrated by the volume of paperwork then required for scheduling advertising, billing advertisers, and producing each day’s commercial lineup. They purchased a Wang Laboratories minicomputer and, along with engineer Wes Lockard, invented software to handle these traffic and billing tasks. As the brothers took on these tasks for other stations in the area, they realized that a market for computerized traffic and billing existed and, in 1978, they founded Custom Business Systems, Inc. At its peak in the mid-1990s, CBSI software was in use by roughly one-third of the commercial radio stations in the United States and by broadcasters in 24 other countries. In 1999, it was described as the “world’s largest supplier of business software for the radio broadcast industry”. CBSI and the Kenagy brothers sold their interest in KDUN in 1985. CBSI itself is now a part of Marketron Broadcast Solutions.
Necessity is the mother…uhh…. umm… you know, you know the thing.
Not to mention the station has an FM translator.
Granted, a pretty small market…..but cheap.
I see a lot of potential there. Roseburg is a nearby market, as is Eugene.
Wow…I can hardly believe the bargain basement price. Yeah, I know it is AM but that is hamburger change money.
I wonder if she simply struck a deal with the guy or whether the station had been on the market. The price is dirt cheap for a 50kw station.