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KIPR (92.3 FM, "Power 92 Jams") is a commercial
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carrying an
urban contemporary Urban contemporary music, also known as urban music, urban pop, or just simply urban, is a music radio format. The term was coined by New York radio DJ Frankie Crocker in the early to mid-1970s as a synonym for Black music. Urban contemporary r ...
format located in
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and licensed to Pine Bluff. It is owned by
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. The station's studios are located in West Little Rock, and the transmitter tower is located in Jefferson, northwest of Pine Bluff. Due to the transmitter location emitting 100 kilowatts, the signal covers most of Central
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including places like Brinkley,
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,
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, Gould, Fordyce and Dumas.


Station history

KIPR airs an urban contemporary format, which was launched in 1988. (Its roots can be traced back to
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due to having KPWR's radio consultant Don Kelly serving as KIPR's programming consultant at the time). It also simulcasts on sister station KFOG at 1250 AM, although the transmitter site for this station is in College Station, Arkansas (just south of
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). As an urban-formatted station, KIPR's main competition comes from direct competitors KHTE-FM and Urban AC station KOKY, which was placed into a separate trust in 2007 to address ownership concentration concerns but remains mainly operated by Cumulus. KIPR's original owner was Buddy Deane, a disc jockey who worked in radio stations in the Little Rock and Memphis markets before achieving fame in Baltimore with a self-titled program that would inspire the 1988 original, Tony-award-winning musical, 2007 musical film remake, and 2016 live television special of ''Hairspray''.


External links


Official website
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