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==Radio station ownership==

==Radio station ownership==

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Andrews was a partner-founder (along with Billy B. Reynolds, Charles "Charlie" Wilson, and DRA, Inc., which included the Brownfield lawyer Jim Rudd), 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 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.

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.

The station was not an instant success because start-up costs were much higher than expected. Partners expected to come up with necessary equipment underperformed, and the two partners who actually worked at the station disagreed on operating policy, whether to live in the town and how to sell ads on the station. Reynolds soon bought out Andrews' interest. Wilson was bought out by a man named Dennison whose son worked at the station and had a car dealership in Hobbs, New Mexico. About a year later, Dennison bought out Reynolds and then held some three fourths of the station.​

The station was not an instant success because start-up costs were much higher than expected. Partners expected to come up with necessary equipment underperformed, and the two partners who actually worked at the station disagreed on operating policy, whether to live in the town and how to sell ads on the station. Reynolds soon bought out Andrews' interest. Wilson was bought out by a man named Dennison whose son worked at the station and had a car dealership in Hobbs, New Mexico. About a year later, Dennison bought out Reynolds and then held some three fourths of the station.​