Gap Broadcasting Group was a group of companies that owned around 116 broadcast stations (including 1 low-power television station and 5 low-power stations) in 23

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s in northwestern and central southern United States in the late 2000s. Managed by

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, the group acquired mainly stations from Clear Channel Communications (now

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as of late 2014) in the mid-sized radio markets that Clear Channel was exiting. All Gap Broadcasting Group stations were acquired by Oaktree's

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in August 2010.

Operating companies

* Gap Broadcasting, which became Gap Central Broadcasting and was also known as Gap I, was based in

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and acquired stations in the south-central states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas. It also owned

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KJEF-CA at

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. * GapWest Broadcasting, also known as Gap II, was based in

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and acquired stations in 13 markets in Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, Washington, and Wyoming. * A third operating company, Gap Broadcasting III or GAP East, was founded in 2009 to acquire stations east of the

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, but ended up without any acquisitions.

Stations

As of May 2010, just before being acquired by Townsquare, Gap Broadcasting Group owned the following stations: Gap Central also owned low-power television station KJEF-CA at

(

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53643). It was also in the process of acquiring KTXN-FM at

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(Facility ID 13984), which it programmed under a

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. GapWest programmed station KLMI at

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(Facility ID 164207) under a local marketing agreement.

References

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