With the sale of its sister FM’s set to close shortly, El Dorado Broadcasters pulled the plug on News/Talk 560 KBLU Yuma AZ on Saturday evening.
El Dorado agreed to sell Country 95.1 KTTI and Classic Hits “100.9 The River” KQSR Yuma in November to K-Love Inc. for $375,000 with the deal set to close in mid-March.
The 560 allocation in Yuma launched in 1940, while KBLU signed on in 1959 on 1320. A corporate merger in 1969 led to the KBLU IP replacing KYUM on 560. In 2005, then-owner Clear Channel briefly attempted to relocate the station to the Las Vegas market.
KBLU most recently featured a local morning show hosted by Russ Clark and syndicated programming the rest of the day. Clark will continue his show on Facebook.
