Perry Publishing and Broadcasting is an American

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company based in

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, targeting the local

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community. On the 7th of April 2025 the Oklahoma Senate passed Senate Resolution 13, honoring Russell M. Perry for his remarkable contributions to the state as a businessman, banker, and journalist. Authored and presented by Senator Shane Jett,

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, who is the state senator from Senate District 17, which includes northern Pottawatomie County and eastern Oklahoma County. The resolution commended Perry for founding The Black Chronicle and establishing Perry Publishing & Broadcasting, now Oklahoma’s largest independent radio group.

Company history

Perry Publishing and Broadcasting was founded in April 1979 by Russell M. Perry and began publishing the '' Black Chronicle'', Oklahoma's oldest African-American community newspaper, that same month. In 1993, Perry Publishing acquired its first radio station with the purchase of AM 1140 (now known as

KRMP KRMP (1140 AM) is an urban adult contemporary radio station in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The station is owned by Perry Publishing and Broadcasting. The station's studios are located at Perry Plaza II in the Eastside district of Northeast O ...

) in Oklahoma City. Then acquired KVSP and became the first

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station in the Oklahoma City market since the early-1990s. With the success of KVSP, Perry soon acquired

KJMM KJMM (105.3 FM broadcasting, FM) is a commercial radio, commercial radio station city of license, licensed to Bixby, Oklahoma, and serving the Tulsa metropolitan area, Greater Tulsa media market, radio market. It is owned by Perry Publishing an ...

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in 1994. In 1996, Perry Publishing acquired its first duopoly with KJMZ and KKRX, serving the Lawton area. In 1999, Perry Publishing purchased

KGTO KGTO (1050 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Tulsa, Oklahoma. The station is owned by Perry Publishing and Broadcasting and licensed to KJMM, Inc. It airs an urban adult contemporary music format. Its studios are located in the Copper ...

in Tulsa from

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, providing the company a duopoly in Tulsa along with KJMM. In 2001, Perry Publishing acquired five more stations serving the Lawton area: KKEN, KDDQ, KRPT, KPNS, and KXCA. In 2005, Perry then acquired KACO, which also serving the Lawton area. In August 2007, Perry Publishing acquired Radio One's cluster of stations in

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: WFXA-FM, WAKB, WTHB, and WAEG. In November 2015, it was announced that Perry Publishing purchased KFMD in Bethel Heights, Arkansas from Hog Radio for $400,000. In December 2018, Perry Publishing announced that it would sell all 8 of his station in the Lawton area to Mollman Media for $3 million. The sale was completed in April 2019.

Radio stations

Arkansas

Bethel Heights

* KQIS 105.3/1340 AM

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Georgia

Augusta

* WAEG 92.3 Smooth jazz * WAKB 100.9 Urban adult contemporary * WFXA-FM 103.1 Mainstream urban * WTHB-FM 96.9 Urban gospel

Oklahoma

Oklahoma City (flagship)

* KINB 105.3

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1140 AM Urban adult contemporary * KVSP 103.5 Mainstream urban

Tulsa, Oklahoma

1050 AM Urban adult contemporary *

105.3 Mainstream urban

References

External links

Perry Publishing and Broadcasting official website
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