Radio host buys Little Nashville Opry site

NASHVILLE, Ind. (AP) - A Central Indiana business owner and radio show host plans on rebuilding a southern Indiana concert hall that burned down in 2009 after buying the property in a county tax sale.

Scott Wayman was the only bidder for the Little Nashville Opry site during Tuesday's Brown County commissioners tax sale, submitting the minimum bid of nearly $58,000. He'll have to wait 120 days to take possession of the site to see whether the current owner can pay about $120,000 in back taxes.

Wayman tells The Herald-Times ( http://bit.ly/J2cJrq ) that he had looked into buying the concert hall before the fire. The Opry's former manager was charged last month with arson.

Wayman hosts the morning show on country music station WCBK of Martinsville and owns a furniture store there with his parents.