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Hartford's 104.1 will be sold to a CT broadcaster

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Bill-in-CT

Pending FCC approval, of course. Please excuse me for starting a new post. The earlier one turned into a long thread for out of state stations.

All Access is reporting that John Fuller's Red Wolf Broadcasting has agreed to buy WURH 104.1. Red Wolf's VP of Programming Brain Ram will program its new acquisition.

Ram told All Access that 104.1 will be run by Connecticut residents, and that it's an exciting time to grow Red Wolf's local company.
 
Bill1820 said:
Pending FCC approval, of course. Please excuse me for starting a new post. The earlier one turned into a long thread for out of state stations.

All Access is reporting that John Fuller's Red Wolf Broadcasting has agreed to buy WURH 104.1. Red Wolf's VP of Programming Brain Ram will program its new acquisition.

Ram told All Access that 104.1 will be run by Connecticut residents, and that it's an exciting time to grow Red Wolf's local company.
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As long as they don't toy with the format too drastically, this is good on all fronts: keeping 104 local, bringing the station back to life, and creating new jobs in the state (in radio of all industries)! Seeing the obvious ties between Red Wolf and Mohegan, it'd be great if the station could attract some good bands and concert tours to the Sun Arena. The possibilities are endless, I just hope they don't flip back to rap or something silly like Top40, Spanish, oldies, or newstalk.

Seeing how corporate radio is having a meltdown in this economic crisis, will we see more radio stations sold off into local hands? Maybe the bad economy will be the rebirth of local radio? We could always hope anyway.
 
Hopefully it doesn't turn into a religious station.
If 104.1 flips from alternative rock, it would be the second time it flipped away from alt-rock.
 
Well I doubt they would try Hip Hop or AC as both failed and are already served well in the market. And I don't know about CHR as we sorta have two with 96.5 TIC which is Hot AC. Anything will hopefully be good, I just hope no talk format or WEEI in Hartford. Red Sox are fine on 1080.
 
Ken said:
Well I doubt they would try Hip Hop or AC as both failed and are already served well in the market. And I don't know about CHR as we sorta have two with 96.5 TIC which is Hot AC. Anything will hopefully be good, I just hope no talk format or WEEI in Hartford. Red Sox are fine on 1080.
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CHR and HOT AC are not the same. Though, they are becoming more intertwined, it seems.
 
Could there be a tacit agreement, as a condition of the sale, that Red Wolf won't format 104.1 to directly compete with any of the remaining CC properties in Hartford/New Haven?
 
The Dude said:
Boy 104.1 has been sold many times,whats going on?
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104.1 hasn't been sold that many times. It's been owned by Clear Channel for years. And it ended up it Clear Channel's hands because the company that owned it was merged into Clear Channel. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. If I recall it was owned by SFX Broadcasting and SFX got taken over by Atlantic Star (the name Capstar used in the Northeast) Atlantic Star got taken over by AM-FM and AM-FM got taken over by Clear Channel.
 
Yes, right how many hands this station went through.Will this station is the FM equivalent of AM 1220 before WQUN came on and settle in., Merv Griffin use to own then WIOF in the 1970's when it was a country station.that ended in this time in 1978. then the magic 104 went on the air.Ten years later WWYZ hangup the Natural 92.5 and flip to Country 92.5.
 
WWYZ's flip to country was on Labor Day weekend in 1988. Star 104.1 became RADIO 104 on November 1, 1994. I wish I had both of those switches on tape. All I have is a DJ's mention of "Lite 100.5-WRCH" after finishing Charlie Bagley's weather forecast in the summer of 1989, just after the beautiful music format was dropped.
 
Hopefully Brian Ram lets this Station have some Personality. He does seem to know what He is doing. Clear Channel has put NOTHING into this Station. It will be Intersting to See what they will do with the Station, I would like it to stay Alternative. I bet station does a cross between Soft Rock 106.5 and a KTU/ Movin' Type Station. Hartford does have a Dance back round.
 
. It will be Intersting to See what they will do with the Station, I would like it to stay Alternative. I bet station does a cross between Soft Rock 106.5 and a KTU/ Movin' Type Station. Hartford does have a Dance back round.
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I believe he said that they will be keeping the Alternative Format but making some changes....I am guessing personality and maybe a new name.
 
How about a call sign change to make it the 6th call sign on the station since 1992!

(keeping track...
WIOF until 9/4/92, WYSR until 3/12/95, WMRQ until 10/01/03, WPHH until 12/20/07, WURH until....)
 
WPPCProductions said:
Yes, right how many hands this station went through.Will this station is the FM equivalent of AM 1220 before WQUN came on and settle in.,Merv Griffin use to own then WIOF in the 1970's when it was a country station.that ended in this time in 1978. then the magic 104 went on the air.Ten years later WWYZ hangup the Natural 92.5 and flip to Country 92.5.
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WCDQ, WOMN, PLR II, WNNR, WSCR, WXCT and WQUN. Too many call letter changes. WIOF was a great soft rock station.
A format like that can be successful today. Probably give RCH a good scare. ;D
 
Thats what River 105.9 was for but they have not hurt WRCH. The new owner should make 104.1 maybe top 40 go head to head with Kiss. Speaking of that will 104.1 have to move their antenna once the new owner takes over? As 104.1 is on the same tower as 95.7
 
I've been listening online to streams of station that might shakeup River 105.9 and WDRC if 104.1 goes to oldies Top 40 like these stations like KQLL Tulsa OK,WBBG Youngstown OH, and there is probably others I've have not heard yet.Also run Premiere's Classic American Top 40's of the 70's and 80's with Casey Kasem.
 
Speaking of that will 104.1 have to move their antenna once the new owner takes over? As 104.1 is on the same tower as 95.7
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I hope not. I can get 104.1 directional here in Old Greenwich.. 95.7 wont come in but then again, 95.9 WFOX gives it a bunch of sideband interference. the only other inland CT station I can clock on a Sangean tuner with a Terk-FM50 pro antenna are KC-101 (clearly I might add) and county 92.5. this is even on top of a clear shot of NYC line of sight with only a few trees and my house blocking in the way overlooking NYC Empire State Buildings station sidebands right next to these frequency's,
 
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