In 1984, under the ownership of Oppenheimer Broadcast Group ( Austin, TX ) which had bought the station ( and its sister stations, WLCS-AM 910 of Baton Rouge and KQXY-FM of Beaumont, TX ) from Airwaves, Inc. ( managed by Gene Nelson and Lamar Simmons, two veteran broadcasters and Baton Rouge radio pioneers of the 1940s through 1980s ), the format was switched to Adult Contemporary and the familiar black-and-red easy listening " rose logo " was replaced by a bloc sans-serif blue logo.

While some consumers simply interpreted high fidelity as fancy and expensive equipment, many found the difference in quality between " hi-fi " and the then standard AM radios and 78 rpm records readily apparent and bought 33⅓ LPs, such as RCA's New Orthophonics and London's ffrrs, and high-fidelity phonographs.

The Tribune < nowiki >' s </ nowiki > reputation for innovation extended to radio — it bought an early station, WDAP, in 1924 and renamed it WGN ( AM ), the station call letters standing for the paper's self-description as the " World's Greatest Newspaper.

As a fallback, in 1980 it bought WLOL ( AM 1330 ), one of the oldest stations in Minnesota, and changed its calls to KSJN ( AM ), a simulcast of KSJN-FM.

In 1991, MPR bought WLOL-FM, AM 1330's former FM sister, allowing it to finally split its services into two networks.

When two brothers, Leslie and Harry Allen Jr., bought the station in the 1970s, they began playing album rock music in the evenings while simulcasting the AM programming during the day.

This bought all the features of the state-of-the-art ' AM ' series to the mass market.

Rogers Broadcasting operates 51 Canadian radio stations ( Rogers Radio ), ( 36 FM and 10 AM radio stations ) including three FM stations launched in the Maritimes in October 2005 ; Omni Television, which operates two multicultural television stations in Ontario ( OMNI. 1 and OMNI. 2 ) as well as one in Vancouver ( Channel M ) acquired in April 2008 ; Citytv acquired in 2007 ; which operates 5 stations in Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver ; Sportsnet, a specialty sports television service licensed to provide regional sports programming across Canada ; The Shopping Channel, Canada's only nationally televised shopping service and The Biography Channel Canada, acquired outright in August 2006 when Rogers bought out the 40 % stake owned by Calgary's Shaw Communications and A & E Television Networks ' 20 % ownership.

Following WPHX-FM's sale, WPHX-AM took on simulcasting WFNX until Port Broadcasting bought the AM station in 2012 and changed its call sign to WWSF.

Shortly after the merger was finalized, AM / FM was bought by its current owners, Clear Channel Communications.

In 1881, the Clark firm bought at auction the foreclosed Atlantic, Mississippi & Ohio Railroad ( AM & O ), an east-west railroad across Virginia controlled by William Mahone.

The Durham Life Insurance Company, which owned the Triangle's oldest radio station, WPTF ( 680 AM ), bought WRDU-TV from the Everetts in May 1977 and changed its callsign to WPTF-TV on August 14 of the following year.

The AM station was sold for $ 4 million in October 1993 to Salem Communications ( which had almost bought the station three years earlier for $ 6. 5 million but backed out of the deal at the last minute ) and on November 1, 1993, the station was renamed WPHY, with a religious format focusing on Christian talk and teaching.

Shull Broadcasting bought competing AM station WAOC in 2002 and sold off WFOY's property at 1 Radio Road, St. Augustine, Florida to developers.

Rogers Broadcasting Ltd. operates 54 Canadian radio stations, ( 45 FM and 9 AM radio stations ) including three FM stations launched in the Maritimes in October 2005 ; Omni Television, which operates five multicultural television stations ( two in Ontario, two in Alberta, and one in British Columbia ); Citytv ; which operates 5 stations in Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver ; Rogers Sportsnet, a specialty sports television service licensed to provide regional sports programming across Canada ; The Shopping Channel, Canada's only nationally televised shopping service, The Biography Channel Canada, acquired outright in August 2006 when Rogers bought out the 40 % stake owned by Calgary's Shaw Communications and A & E Television Networks ' 20 % ownership.

John J. Louis, owner of KTAR radio ( AM 620 and FM 98. 7, now KPKX ), bought channel 12 in 1955 and changed its calls to KVAR.

Nationwide Communications bought both the AM and FM stations from the estate of its longtime owner Roy Park, then Nationwide was bought by Jacor, which spun the station off to Infinity Broadcasting ( which later became part of CBS Radio ).

In 1985, Heftel Broadcasting bought AM 1000 WCFL, which was once a powerful CHR ( Top 40 ) station, but then became a Christian music and teaching station.

Over the next decade, he bought or signed-on several other AM stations throughout the area.

KLZZ flopped, and that is when Edens Broadcasting bought the stations and turned both of them into CHR stations Q-106 ( KKLQ AM / FM ).

In the early 90's Par Broadcasting bought the stations and separated the AM from the FM.

Then, around 1966 / 67 after the TV station had already been sold, Supreme Broadcasting Company bought the two radio stations and changed the call letters to WNNR AM & FM.

In 1992, after a failed purchase attempt Washington, D. C. station owner Cathy Hughes and her company Almic Broadcasting bought WWIN AM &-FM from Broadcast Enterprise Network, Inc. Ragan Augustus Henry, a Philadelphia attorney headed the organization as President and 53 % owner.

When he was bent over behind the wheel of the station wagon, feeling in his trouser cuffs for the ignition key which he had dropped a moment before, she came out of the house with an enormous Rumanian shawl over her head, which she had bought in that country during one of their trips abroad, and handed him a clean handkerchief through the window.

The velvet smoking jackets, pearl-gray, wine, and blue, which Miss Ada had bought him hung brushed and unworn in the closet.

`` It is as though '', I said on the historic three-hour, coast-to-coast radio broadcast which I bought ( following Father Coughlin and pre-empting the Eddie Cantor, Manhattan Merry-go-round and Major Bowes shows ) `` That Man in the White House, like some despot of yore, insisted on reading my diary, raiding my larder and ransacking my lingerie!!

It seems to be indispensable to the national self-esteem that the Negro be considered either as a kind of ward ( in which case we are told how many Negroes, comparatively, bought Cadillacs last year and how few, comparatively, were lynched ), or as a victim ( in which case we are promised that he will never vote in our assemblies or go to school with our kids ).

Mr. Willis bought Zenith Plastic Products, a skeleton corporation of sorts which had undergone many vicissitudes and whose principal assets were a couple of electronics plants on Long Island engaged in working out government contracts, and installed Freddy in an executive position.

The allotment of an individual was based on citizenship rather than merit or any form of personal popularity which could be bought.

In 1888, Carnegie bought the rival Homestead Steel Works, which included an extensive plant served by tributary coal and iron fields, a 425-mile ( 685 km ) long railway, and a line of lake steamships.

His steel enterprises were bought out at a figure equivalent to 12 times their annual earnings —$ 480 million ( presently, $) which at the time was the largest ever personal commercial transaction.

In addition to a library, Carnegie also bought the private estate which became Pittencrieff Park and opened it to all members of the public, establishing the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust to benefit the people of Dunfermline.

On 4 November 2003, voters approved a greenbelt plan under which the city government bought development rights to pieces of land adjacent to Ann Arbor to preserve them from sprawling development .< ref name =" greenbelt ">

Sony bought CBS Records Group, which consisted of Columbia Records, Epic Records and other CBS labels in 1988 and Columbia Pictures Entertainment ( Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures and others ) in 1989.

Meanwhile, in 1868, tombs at Ialysus in Rhodes had yielded to Alfred Biliotti many fine painted vases of styles which were called later the third and fourth " Mycenaean "; but these, bought by John Ruskin, and presented to the British Museum, excited less attention than they deserved, being supposed to be of some local Asiatic fabric of uncertain date.

The standard example is the stock of a company, undervalued in the stock market, which is about to be the object of a takeover bid ; the price of the takeover will more truly reflect the value of the company, giving a large profit to those who bought at the current price — if the merger goes through as predicted.

The body of trustees decided on a converted 17th-century mansion, Montagu House, as a location for the museum, which it bought from the Montagu family for £ 20, 000.

It was first introduced by Versatec, which was later bought by Xerox.

Cuba was particularly dependent on the United States, which bought 82 percent of its sugar.

But beyond time the Covenant of Redemption was made between the Father and Son, to agree that Christ would live an acceptable substitutionary life on behalf of, and as a covenantal representative for, those who would sin but would trust in Christ as their substitutionary atonement, which bought them into the Covenant of Grace.

The land which is now Columbus was bought by General John Tipton and Luke Bonesteel in 1820.

It was bought by Escom which also went bankrupt.

In July 1984 he bought the consumer side of Atari Inc. from Warner Communications which allowed him to strike back and release the Atari ST earlier in 1985 for about $ 800.

After several on-again / off-again talks with Atari in May and June 1984, Tramiel had secured his funding and bought Atari's Consumer Division ( which included the console and home computer departments ) in July.

The last version of the Auto Union Combi / Pick-up ( DKW F1000 L ) launched in 1969, survives a few months and is bought out by IME which continued production until 1979.

The red-brick semi-detached house at 5 Cwmdonkin Drive, in which Thomas was born and lived until he was 19, had been bought by his parents in the respectable area of the Uplands a few months before his birth.