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A sale has been announced today for WDRC-AM
A sale has been announced today for WDRC-AM
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Connoisseur Media Sells WDRC/Hartford to Red Wolf
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The above should say WMMW-AM 1470 for Meriden.
I really hope they don't turn 102.9 into a Spanish station. We have enough with the translators and the AM band already.
Does this also mean Red Wolf owns the bulk of the Hartford/New Britain/Middletown market? Them, I-Heart Radio and CBS...am I missing anybody?
I really hope they don't turn 102.9 into a Spanish station. We have enough with the translators and the AM band already.
Does this also mean Red Wolf owns the bulk of the Hartford/New Britain/Middletown market? Them, I-Heart Radio and CBS...am I missing anybody?
Those translators relaying Bomba would likely be flipped to some other format -- or sold -- if 102.9 goes Spanish, as the coverage boost they provide would no longer be needed. The Spanish broadcasters on AM don't matter because they don't have a measurable audience and anything an owner might think of doing with them would probably be limited to leased ethnic or leased religion. I'd rather hear Latin pop or tropical music in low-fidelity AM than either of those formats.
Oh, and CBS is out of radio. It owns nothing in the Hartford market, or any other market, now.
There are no AM-only Spanish stations left in the market. WNEZ 1230 added 105.3 in 2016 and became EXITOS 105.3, La Mega added 101.7 in January 2017, and WRYM added 107.3 during the summer of 2017 changing their name from La Gigante to Viva 107.3 and 840 in the process. WPRX has been operating without a license since June 8th, 2017. Last I knew unlicensed stations don't qualify for translators.
Also I don't think The Whale is going anywhere. The story on Radio Insight says Full Power Radio isn't making any changes to the stations.
Also I don't think The Whale is going anywhere. The story on Radio Insight says Full Power Radio isn't making any changes to the stations.
Has the sale been finalized or just announced? From what I see in the OP, it's just an announcement.
I don't know, but Red Wolf's "Bomba" Latin CHR programming has already shown up on that 250-watt New Haven translator that's included in the deal. It had been carrying an alternative rock format produced by Connoisseur. If the deal isn't 100 percent final now, someone must be pretty sure that it's going to be so very soon.
Full Power Radio took control of the Connoisseur Media stations via an LMA. A lot of station sales start begin with an LMA. I predict the sale will be approved by sometime in March.
In late October 2015 Full Power Radio announced he was buying the 4 stations Davidson Media Group owned in New England - WSPR and WACM in Springfield, WXCT in Southington, and WKKB FM in Providence, RI. An LMA began in November 2015 and the sale was approved in January 2016.
In late October 2015 Full Power Radio announced he was buying the 4 stations Davidson Media Group owned in New England - WSPR and WACM in Springfield, WXCT in Southington, and WKKB FM in Providence, RI. An LMA began in November 2015 and the sale was approved in January 2016.
What will happen to WWCO 1240 AM Waterbury? That was the one Talk of Connecticut station not included in the sale.
What's the difference between Full Power Radio and Red Wolf Broadcasting?
Good question. I do that WWCO is the only talk of Connecticut affiliate Connoisseur is trying to get a translator for. Maybe format flip once they get the translator.
https://recnet.net/fcc/window98_shortforms.pdf (See page 2)
But I think the website will continue to say Connoisseur until the sale closes and the FCC approves.
The licenses say Red Wolf Broadcasting, but I guess the company is called Full Power Radio. When I started corresponding with their Vice President via email over the summer about WNTY the email came from a fullpowerradio.com email address. When they announced they are looking for advertisers and sales people they gave out a fullpowerradio.com email address. And there have been photos on WMRQ's FB Page of the lobby in Glastonbury and there is a sign - "FPR" and "Full Power Radio."
Unless they were just talking about the translator, the Radio Insight dot com article says LMA.
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One is parent of the other.
>What will happen to WWCO 1240 AM Waterbury?
WWCO and its 106.3 translator will be sold separately. A buyer has not been named yet. The FCC approved the CP for the translator last week, and it will be 250 watts from West Peak, Meriden, with a null to the north.
WWCO and its 106.3 translator will be sold separately. A buyer has not been named yet. The FCC approved the CP for the translator last week, and it will be 250 watts from West Peak, Meriden, with a null to the north.
If I were a betting man, I would say Full-Power Radio will get rid of "The Big D" on 102.9 HD2 and "The Big D" with Rob Ray that airs Saturdays/Sundays on the Talk of Connecticut. That competes with "Kool Radio".
Is there any room on the dial left for an FM translator for either 1360 or 1470? If it doesn't interfere with the LPFMs in Simsbury and New Haven is 103.5 an open frequency for a translator since they revoked WZMA-LP's license a few years back?
Also will WDRC AM/FM move-in with WMRQ/BOMBA in Glastonbury or will WMRQ/BOMBA move in with WDRC AM/FM in Bloomfield?
Is there any room on the dial left for an FM translator for either 1360 or 1470? If it doesn't interfere with the LPFMs in Simsbury and New Haven is 103.5 an open frequency for a translator since they revoked WZMA-LP's license a few years back?
Also will WDRC AM/FM move-in with WMRQ/BOMBA in Glastonbury or will WMRQ/BOMBA move in with WDRC AM/FM in Bloomfield?
As Marc posted yesterday on another thread, WWCO and its translator-to-be have been sold to Trignition Media, owner of WRYM. I'd imagine some sort of Spanish-language music format is in the works, probably just a 100 percent simulcast of WRYM,
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