Family Radio facing its own Apocalypse?

[DXingRadio]

They should sell WYFR to Alan Weiner on the cheap... give WBCQ a boost!

He's in "the land of FLA" half the time anyways, why not!

 

[richllewis]

This is the News Release announcing WYFR's end

WYFR Announcement
Dear Shortwave Friends,

We regretfully inform you that the final day of operation for WYFR will be June 30, 2013.

This station descended from W1XAL (an experimental class license assigned in 1927). In 1939 the call letters were changed to WRUL, and then changed to WNYW in 1966.

Initially, broadcasts came from Boston. In 1936 the station moved to Scituate, Massachusetts.

On October 20, 1973 Family Stations, Inc. took ownership of the station using the call letters WYFR. (FSI had been buying airtime from WNYW starting in January of 1972.) At that time, the station sported four transmitters and nine reversible rhombic antennas.

Construction started in Florida in 1976. On November 23, 1977 the first transmission from Okeechobee went on the air.

For several years WYFR operated simultaneously from Scituate and from Okeechobee. The last broadcast from Scituate took place on November 16, 1979.

The Okeechobee site eventually grew to 14 transmitters and 23 antennas. And now we’ve gone full cycle.

Good listening to all, and 73,

 

[DToTheJ]

Obviously 950 in Philly and 106.3 in Westchester County will be sold. Maybe Greater Media will buy 950 back. I don't know about 106.3 in Westchester County though. I doubt Cumulus would buy it back. Maybe the owner of Thunder in Jersey will buy it and simulcast the station into West Chester County...

Do you mean Westchester, NY or West Chester, PA? ???

By the way, if Family Stations is trimming their radio operations, are they going to do the same for TV? The other day, I was scanning the digital dial and WFME still had seven subchannels, including Radio Taiwan and NOAA Weather Radio (which should have requested being removed from Family's subs after Mr. Camping didn't use his "forecasting" ability very wisely)...

 

[luperm]

Cumulus should buy back 106.3 from Family Radio (at a discount, of course) and pair it up with 103.9 once again. Seems like a great simulcast fit for when 103.9 moves down to the Bronx.