He signed an FM radio station in Crowley, La., on the air in 1977 and later purchased three low-power TV stations in the Bayou State. Barry D. Thompson was the owner, and died in September at the age of 87.
This necessitated a shift in the ownership of the media properties, and the FCC has just granted that request.
KAJN-FM 102.9 in Crowley, La., and LPTVs KFAM-CD in Lake Charles, KAGN-CD in Crowley and KAJN-CD in Lafayette, La., are now licensed to Thompson’s estate, overseen by Craig Thompson as independent executor.
They had been assigned to Thompson-led Agape Broadcasters Inc., wholly owned by Barry Thompson.
Handling the paperwork at the Commission is Lauren Lynch Flick of Pillsbury Law.
KAJN is a longtime non-secular broadcast property, and kept a hand in the operations of the station “right up until the end,” station management shared in a Facebook post announcing his passing earlier this autumn.
Ownership of KAJN came following a role as co-owner of KSMB, which originally had a Cajun and Zydeco format before a switch in the seventies to an album-oriented rock format as “K94.” Before that, Thompson was known for his time at KVOL-AM in Lafayette, La. He began his career at KSIG-AM in Crowley, La.
