Deseret News | Station for sale: Potential suitors vie for KCPW

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Station for sale: Potential suitors vie for KCPW

Darvil | 5:12 a.m. Feb. 8, 2008

The Feulner's have been ripping off Utahns for years.

As long as Blair gets paid, everyone else can go jump in a lake. This smells like an attempt to keep that gravy train going.

Rick Hepner | 7:09 a.m. Feb. 8, 2008

The marketplace has spoken.

Kurgoin | 11:03 a.m. Feb. 8, 2008

You know KUER and KUSU would be in the same boat if it weren't for the $600,000 in state tax money they get every year.

Both KCPW and KRCL don't get any state tax money - hence the financial difficulties.

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I'm suprised... | 4:40 p.m. Feb. 8, 2008

that none of the companies like Clear Channel etc are interested in buying the station to grasp the advertising market in Park City and the surrounding areas...

Uncle Mittard Woo | 8:59 p.m. Feb. 11, 2008

Blair Feulner rakes in the cash to send KCPW into an operating deficit of $400,000 per year. No wonder he wants to cut KCPW loose and rake in the cash from the sale of the station. My decision not to donate a dime to this fellow appears to be correct.

Bendawg | 3:50 p.m. Feb. 13, 2008

To "I'm suprised (sic)" - KCPW is the Salt Lake City area station and is also in the non-commercial band. Any radio station between 87.9 FM and 91.9 FM in the USA must fulfill an "educational" mission and can only 'sell' underwriting sponsorships. These are not typical commercials, so a company like Clear Channel would not want the station.

Also, Clear Channel is capped at their current ownership for stations in the market by the FCC.

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Lara Jones, managing editor of KCPW and senior producer of "Midday Metro," gives the 1 p.m. news at KCPW in Library Square in Salt Lake City on Wednesday.

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