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==Radio station ownership==
==Radio station ownership==
Andrews was a partner-founder (along with Billy B. Reynolds, Charles "Charlie" Wilson, and DRA, Inc., in the Brownfield FM now known as 104.3 KTTU-FM. The application was filed in 1980 and granted after a hearing in 1984. The station signed on as KKTC, and the company was known as BBC Brownfield Broadcasting Company. Andrews and Reynolds had worked at KFYO (AM) and had noticed that the former news director of KLVT (AM), Del Kirby, had started a station called KHOC (FM), now KJDL-FM, in Levelland in Hockley County west of Lubbock. The two broadcasters offered to buy the station but were unsuccessful. Other staff at KFYO (Roger Hiveley or Chuck Kinney, or perhaps David Stewart who is known to have worked at KFYO in this time frame) made them aware of other FM outlets available in Ralls, Floydada, and Brownfield. Of those choices, Brownfield was the largest community.
Andrews was a partner-founder, along with Billy B. Reynolds, Charles "Charlie" Wilson, and DRA, Inc., in the Brownfield FM now known as 104.3 KTTU-FM. The application for the station was filed in 1980 and granted after a hearing in 1984. The station signed on as KKTC, and the company was known as BBC Brownfield Broadcasting Company. Andrews and Reynolds had worked at KFYO (AM) and had noticed that the former news director of KLVT (AM), Del Kirby, had started a station called KHOC (FM), now KJDL-FM, in Levelland in Hockley County west of Lubbock. The two broadcasters offered to buy the station but were unsuccessful. Other staff at KFYO made them aware of other FM outlets available in Ralls, Floydada, and Brownfield. Of those choices, Brownfield was the largest community.
KKTC went on air with a country format and studio on the square in Brownfield. The initial ownership was Bud Andrews and Bill Reynolds, each with 26 percent interest; Charlie Wilson, an electronics teacher at Lubbock Independent School District and the founder of KLSD (FM) (now KOHM) and the engineer who combined KJAK and KHOC, held 24 percent. So did DRA, Inc., which included partners of the law firm of Jim Rudd, a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] member of the Texas House of Representatives from 1977 to 1995.
KKTC went on air with a country format and studio on the square in Brownfield. The initial ownership was Bud Andrews and Bill Reynolds, each with 26 percent interest; Charlie Wilson, an electronics teacher at Lubbock Independent School District and the founder of KLSD (FM) (now KOHM) and the engineer who combined KJAK and KHOC, held 24 percent. So did DRA, Inc., which included partners of the law firm of Jim Rudd, a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] member of the Texas House of Representatives from 1977 to 1995.