KOKY

KOKY (102.1 FM) is a commercial radio station broadcasting from Little Rock, Arkansas (licensed to suburban Sherwood).

It airs an urban adult contemporary format, and is owned and operated by The Last Bastion Station Trust, LLC.

Then located near Central High, one of its alumni, Al Bell, was influenced by the station during the heyday of the Civil Rights Movement.

That KOKY changed its call letters to KITA and switched to gospel music in 1979; it is now KTUV, a Latino station.

The choice of KOKY was probably made to increase the likelihood that both KOKY and KPZK-FM, which also targets an African American audience, would be sold together to an African American owner; the FCC order that required the divestitures to Last Bastion strongly suggested that the trust seek out minority owners.