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Edens Communications Inc., the Phoenix-based company that last month acquired seven Sun Belt radio stations from Harte-Hanks Communications Inc. for $43.5 million, announced the formation of a seven-member board.

The new members include Raymond A. Doig, president of Los Angeles-based Carlyle Capital Corp., and John G. Johnson, a Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., resident and former president and founder of Southern Broadcasting Co., which was acquired by Harte-Hanks in 1978. Carlyle is the largest equity investor in Edens Communications.

Gary Edens, the chairman and chief executive of the new broadcasting company, formerly headed Harte-Hanks’ radio group.

Karl Eller, chairman and chief executive of Phoenix-based Circle K Corp., has also been named to the new company’s board. Eller is a general partner of SunVen Partners, a Phoenix-based limited partnership that has invested in Edens Communications.

Other new board members include Jeffery Garvey, general partner of Rust Ventures and Rust Capital Limited Partnership of Austin, Tex.; David A. Reese, president of Phoenix-based State Savings Mortgage Co., and Murray H. Tomham, vice president and chief financial officer of Edens Broadcasting Inc.