[4] In 1959, LeTourneau sold KLTI to the Bridge and Mahone families, doing business as Radio Longview, Inc.;[2] the new ownership also ran KMHT at Marshall.
[6] The new owners renamed the station to KLUE and also expressed their desire to seek authorization for nighttime broadcasts and return to the FM dial.
[7] They also attempted to follow through on their promises of improved AM facilities; while their bid to increase power to 5,000 watts was dismissed in 1962,[2] they did return to the FM dial in early March 1963 when KLUE-FM 105.7 made its debut.
Early in the month, the station announced that it would no longer play The Beatles, and its program director expressed hope that "the word beetle may soon again simply refer to the insect in this country".
[15]) News director Phil Ransom said that claims made by Lennon in A Spaniard in the Works included "anti-Christian comments that would make the godless Russian leaders blush".
[16] Equipment was extensively damaged, and news director Phil Ransom was knocked unconscious and transported to the hospital; the station was able to return to the air the next day.
[20] Among the programs carried by the station in the early years of McLarty ownership was the 1982 The Beatles at the Beeb special consisting of BBC studio sessions unheard until that point in the United States.
[21] Pine Tree Media of Texarkana, Texas, the final owners of the 1280 frequency, acquired KLUE from McLarty in 1982; the station continued with its adult contemporary format[22] until flipping to country in June 1984.
American Plastics then proceeded to foreclose on the note and acquire Pine Tree without applying to the FCC for the necessary consent to the transfer of control.
As a result of the misrepresentations, silence, and false statements made by Praise Media manager Janet Washington as to the reasons for the incarceration of her husband, FCC administrative law judge John M. Frysiak denied KARW's renewal in August 1995.