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, United States, the station was owned by Yaquina Bay Communications, Inc., and featured programming from

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History

KNPT signed on June 28, 1948, and was first licensed on February 2, 1949. Thomas R. Becker's Yaquina Radio sold the station and KNPT-FM 102.5 to Charmar Broadcasting (led by Charles F. King, a former general sales manager for KPAM-AM- FM in

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) for $1 million in 1979. David Miller's Yaquina Bay Communications bought KNPT and KYTE (102.7; the former KNPT-FM) from Central Coast Broadcasting for $331,798.12 in 1995. KNPT, along with its sister stations (

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in Newport,

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and

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in Lincoln City, and

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in Waldport), shut down on December 31, 2023. The closure followed the August foreclosure of the stations' studios, which were sold to Oregon Coast Bank in a sheriff's sale on December 5. The

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cancelled the station’s license on January 8, 2025.

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