A station sale and an owner's deathSourced
Staff learned their radio station was being sold. Its owner died that same day.
Employees of WLOK in Lima, Ohio, were told on 30 July 1954 that their station was being sold. On the same day its owner, Lloyd Pixley, died aged 54. The identity of the buyer was not revealed until October.
Two shocks landed on one day.
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