It's official - Blount (WFIF) buys WDZK (1550) for 500K

[MarcB]

This morning's Tom Taylor Newsletter reported that Blount has picked up WDZK 1550 for the 500K he got when he sold 1230 in Worcester.

Blount owns about 1/2 dozen stations running religious programming including:

1500 in Milford, CT
760 in the Worcester, MA area
1590 in Providence, RI
1320 in Derry, New Hampshire
An FM station in Maine

 

[KML0224]

The Worcester, MA station would be WVNE-AM, licensed to Leicester, MA.

 

[MarcB]

Personally I would've wished that either GOIS, Davidson, or Marlin bought 1550.

If Gois bought 1550 it would be a major power boost for either 1230 or 1480. Maybe even taking one of those 2 dark.

If Davidson bought 1550 I think they would've moved Radio Cantico Nuevo there from 990. Not because I ever expect Davidson to have 990 be a community station again, but simply because 1550's signal reaches a large Hispanic population than 990's signal does.

If Marlin bought 1550 I would think they would make it a talk station. They already run IMUS on 1290 their Classical Station. Of course Marlin doesn't have the $$$$.

 

[KML0224]

We don't need another Spanish station. Religion either.

 

[Ozman]

This morning's Tom Taylor Newsletter reported that Blount has picked up WDZK 1550 for the 500K he got when he sold 1230 in Worcester.

Blount owns about 1/2 dozen stations running religious programming including:

1500 in Milford, CT
760 in the Worcester, MA area
1590 in Providence, RI
1320 in Derry, New Hampshire
An FM station in Maine

you watch WSTC/WNLK will be next or Just WSTC, and WNLK would move to milford... however, Can WNLK move to milford because of the 4 radio station Cap or is WPLR enough out of the Norwalk area/market to have 5 stations in COX of milford. what is the official ruling on that?

 

[Andy Taylor]

The FM in Maine is 105.9 WBCI in Bath.It's 50kw

 

[CTListener]

We don't need another Spanish station. Religion either.

Spanish will continue to be viable on AM so long as Hartford-New Haven remains without a Spanish FM signal. Religion will remain viable on AM so long as there are preachers willing to pay for airtime and suckers gullible enough to send their money to them.

 

[DToTheJ]

Spanish will continue to be viable on AM so long as Hartford-New Haven remains without a Spanish FM signal...

Just like urban was viable on AM before it popped up on the FM dial... Supply and demand...

 

[KML0224]

I wonder how different things would be now if WLVH-FM 93.7 (Latin Voice of Hartford) had never changed owners, formats and call letters in 1990?