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TheDrewry Communications Group was a media company based inLawton, Oklahoma, wholly owned and operated by the Drewry family. The company was run by Robert Drewry (as the company's president), Bill Drewry (as its chief executive officer), and Larry Patton (as general manager). Robert and Bill are the sons of late patriarch Ransom H. Drewry.

Drewry Communications' broadcasting properties consisted of 13 radio and television stations inOklahoma andTexas, largely concentrated inwestern andcentral Texas.

Ransom H. Drewry founded radio station KSWO (1380 AM, nowKKRX) in Lawton, Oklahoma in 1941. Six years later in 1947, Drewry started his second radio station, KRHD (1350 AM, nowKFTP) inDuncan (the KRHD call letters, derived from Drewry's initials, were later assigned to a television station inBryan, Texas, that serves as atranslator of the company's ABC affiliate inWaco,KXXV-TV). Drewry entered television broadcasting in 1953, when he and a group that included J.R. Montgomery, T.R. Warkentin, Robert P. Scott, and G.G. Downing foundedKSWO-TV (channel 7) in Lawton as the city's ABC affiliate, which signed on the air on March 8 of that year.

Over the years, the Drewry family gradually acquired other stations in the northern half of Texas. Drewry, in partnership with Ray Herndon (majority owner ofKMID-TV inMidland, Texas), acquired CBS affiliateKFDA-TV (channel 10) inAmarillo, Texas, in 1976 through their company, Amarillo Telecasters.

Sons Robert and Bill Drewry took over the company following the elder Drewry's death. The company expanded by acquiring, among other stations: KTPX-TV (nowKWES-TV) in Midland, Texas andBig Springsatellite KWAB-TV (both in 1991); KXXV-TV inWaco (in 1994); K60EE (nowKTLE-LD) inOdessa (in 2001);KSCM-LP inBryan (in 2006), andKEYU in Amarillo (in 2009).

Drewry sold KSWO radio, as well as KRHD and KRHD-FM (102.3 FM, nowKKEN at 97.1 FM), toAnadarko, Oklahoma-based Monroe-Stephens Broadcasting in 1998. The company re-entered into radio in August 2002, when Drewry purchasedRegional Mexican stationKTXC (104.7 FM) inLamesa, Texas.^[1] In 2014, the company purchased in KRGN (102.9 FM) in Amarillo fromFamily Life Radio, and relaunched it as a Spanish-languageadult hits station under the call lettersKEYU-FM.

On July 1, 2008, Drewry Communications announced its intention to sell its eleven television stations to Dallas-based London Broadcasting Company—a company founded by Terry E. London the previous year to acquire broadcast properties in small- to mid-sized markets within Texas (its first being the purchase of CBS affiliateKYTX inTyler in February 2008)—for $115 million. While the deal received approval by theFederal Communications Commission, London Broadcasting filed a notice of non-consummation to the FCC in January 2009, terminating the deal due to market uncertainties resulting from theGreat Recession.^[2][3]

On July 31, 2009, Drewry Communications entered into ajoint sales and shared services agreement with KAUZ-TV ownerHoak Media, in which KSWO-TV would provide advertising and promotional services for KAUZ (Hoak retained responsibility for that station's programming,master control and production services). Although the two stations are jointly operated, KSWO-TV and KAUZ-TV each retained separate studio facilities and news operations at their respective facilities in Lawton and Wichita Falls.^[4]

On August 10, 2015,Raycom Media announced that it would purchase Drewry Communications for $160 million; in addition to acquiring its 11 television stations, as KTXC and KEYU-FM were included in the sale, the deal marked Raycom's re-entry into radio station ownership after it soldWMC andWMC-FM inMemphis, Tennessee toInfinity Broadcasting Corporation in 2000. As part of the deal,American Spirit Media would purchase KAUZ-TV from Hoak Media. While KSWO and KAUZ remained jointly operated, the existing joint sales agreement between KSWO and KAUZ was terminated upon the sale's closure to comply with FCC rules. The sale was completed on December 1, 2015.^[5]

• Stations are arranged in alphabetical order by state andcity of license.
• Two boldface asterisks appearing following a station's call letters (**) indicate a station built and signed on by Drewry.

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