This is fascinating, though not unexpected that 91X ends up back under the control of Lynch. He got it on the air (with a little help from Ed Noble and a few others) despite lawsuits by CERF (Citizens for Equality in Radio Frequencies, which was led by Dan McKinnon, at the time the owner of KSON AM/FM, and joined by almost every licensed San Diego broadcast entity) and numerous other obstacles. Every party to the suit settled. Lynch made good money from it and CERF blew away in the breeze. Lynch took 91X and nurtured it, worked it, created X-Fest with it and then sold it off with his Noble assets to what ultimately became Clear Channel. He was then shoved upstairs to a lousy office with a meaningless title in their service until they could finally off load him. This is the ultimate shove it where the sun don't shine he could inflict upon these slime. They bought it from him, screwed him and now he's stolen it back and maybe left them with a bit of a sore posterior in turn. Good on you John Lynch.
He'll know what to do with his new found acquisitions too. I've seen this guy go down the darkest roads with huge risk and emerge the other side with sunglasses and a new Mercedes. I've looked him in the eye and told him he was nuts and was about to lose his ass, only to be proven wrong on more than one occasion, starting well before the insane deal he did for KJOY, which only made him and Noble something like $20 million. He's a big, dumb asshole that somehow always comes out ahead.
I'm a fan of his despite having worked for him for ten years and been put into situations I would rather have not had to deal with, but in all fairness, he made it possible for me to go back to school and have a career I wouldn't have had otherwise. Life is funny. No?
Lynch has made plenty of money, had successes, failures, enemies, friends, won, lost and pretty much lived a large life, and I applaud this development with 91X. Screw the rest of it.
I challenge him to get richer than his son, who did a hell of a lot better in pro football than his daddy (knife in and twisted now). The rest of the San Diego broadcasting community better look out. This guy plays hardball and he just bought a pretty good team.
John, call Steve West and Halloran. They both need work and you could definitely use them. Good luck. Dumbass.