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They are owned by Blackcrow Media, which also own 4 other stations additionally in the Daytona Beach market. CFLRadio.net is saying they are owned by Southern Stone Communications, LLC. I know when I worked there, a guy named Paul Stone was in the process of bailing them out from their loan with GE/Bankruptcy Receivership in 2011. From what I understand, he now owns the majority of the radio stations. When I occasionally listen to their talk station, WNDB AM, they still identify themselves as Blackcrow Media on the air. So, I don't know what the entire deal is on the name aspect. I can only tell you from working for Blackcrow Media that they paid very low wages (as I am sure other radio companies do). I wouldn't know if things have changed since the new guy took majority ownership. I haven't been in contact with anyone since I left WNDB. As far as Kingbird, he is a really great to work for! You could not find a more caring and genuine person to be around.
 
According to the FCC, all of the former Black-Crow stations, including WNDB, are now licensed to and owned by Southern Stone Communications, LLC.
 
I just think the whole thing is a sad ending. It's really horrible that you build your business up to own multiple radio stations and basically have to sell majority of your ownership off to someone else because of making bad business decisions. I am sure there are people out there would do anything just to own one radio station. I can tell you when I was there, they were too upper management heavy in my opinion. I noticed from reading CFLRadio.net, they finally let their VP go. In addition, you have the VP of Programming making all of the programming decisions, while still employing Program Directors for each station and an Operation Manager. I am not against having these management positions, but, if they can't manage and program their respective station, without going through the VP of Programming for approval, then why keep them on the payroll in that status and what's the point of having them. Its like they went to a new style of management system and left the old chain of command in place.
 
There is no money in the Daytona market. The two best signals in the market were 94.5 and 99.9, which have been moved to Orlando and Jacksonville. The Orlando signals dominate the ratings, so all you have locally are small signals.

Black Crow did a solid job until Florida's economy tanked.
 
I agree with you they did a solid job until the market tanked. I also agree with you about the small markets. However, I still think as mentioned above, that if they would have eliminated some of the heavy brass earlier on and duplicate management positions, they could have put themselves in a better position financially. I know that was not there only problems, but I felt that would have helped with there money situation. It was just plain weird having a Program Director and having to bi-pass him when I needed approval on doing something with the station. There problems were also not limited just to the Daytona market.
 
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