Perry Publishing and Broadcasting is a

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, local

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show producer and

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group based in

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Oklahoma City (), officially the City of Oklahoma City, and often shortened to OKC, is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The county seat of Oklahoma County, it ranks 20th among United States cities in population, and ...

, targeting the local

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community. Russell M. Perry is the owner and president of the company.

Company history

Perry Publishing was founded in April 1979 by Russell M. Perry and began publishing the '' Black Chronicle'', Oklahoma's oldest African-American community newspaper, that same month. In 1993 Perry Publishing acquired its first radio station with the purchase of AM 1140 (now known as

KRMP KRMP (1140 AM) is an urban adult contemporary radio station in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The station is owned by The Perry Broadcasting Company. The station's studios are located at Perry Plaza II in the Eastside district of Northeast Oklahom ...

) in Oklahoma City. The station later became

KVSP KVSP (103.5 FM) is a mainstream urban radio station serving Central Oklahoma, Licensed to Anadarko and owned by the locally based Perry Broadcasting. Its studios are located at Perry Plaza II in the Eastside district of Oklahoma City and its ...

and was the first

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station in the Oklahoma City market since the early-1990s. With the success of KVSP, Perry soon acquired

KJMM KJMM (105.3 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Bixby, Oklahoma, and serving the Greater Tulsa radio market. It is owned by Perry Publishing and Broadcasting and it has an urban contemporary radio format. KJMM carries a national ...

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. Today the company operates stations in several cities in Oklahoma and has recently (as of August, 2007) acquired Radio One's cluster of stations in Augusta, Georgia

In 2003 Perry Publishing built a 2,000 ft tower in Caddo County, Oklahoma to move KRPT FM into Oklahoma City making it a Full C in power, a 100,000 watts. KRPT FM call letters were changed to

External links

Perry Publishing and Broadcasting official website

The Black Chronicle's official website

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