 Arizona Western used the facility to start its own public radio station; AM 1320 took the call letters KAWC.In 1973, KBLU founder Crites bought back KBLU-AM-TV, in a $550,000 transaction.Crites sold KBLU to Sun Country Broadcasting of Texas for $880,000 in 1983; Sun Country also bought country music station 95.1 KTTI at the same time.