In a message dated 12/26/2006 9:57:30 AM Central Standard Time, lfuss2 at cox.net writes: I don't think so. WDIA, which was the only 50 kw in Memphis for years, and generally regarded as the first all-black formatted station in the nation, was always locally owned. LF Egmont Sounderling owned WDIA, Memphis, and later purchased KDIA in Oakland/San Francisco Dave