WLVJ 1040 am sold

[max88]

James Crystal has unloaded WLVJ 1040 to the owners of 1020 AM

 

[thebeach33445]

OH GREAT ANOTHER HATIAN STATION!! JUST WHAT WE NEED.

 

[HadYourPhil]

Bring back Foxy 1040!

 

[RadioGuy2004]

Bring back Foxy 1040!

Now you've done it! ;D

Back in the day of riding the school bus, it was always 99 JAMZ before COx got their hands on it vs. FOXY 1040. I miss FOXY. It was an awesome R&B AM station.

 

[Ai4i]

I think they are co-owned with KCKN, 1020 in Roswell.
So, maybe they will go classic country.

 

[HadYourPhil]

When I got to South FL in 1987 to work at Magic, I was knocked out with Foxy. Reverb, great jocks and music. Their cool TOTH ID's were great, too. And, they actually played a few white artists if the sound was right, like Simply Red and Lisa Stansfield.

 

[Ai4i]

I got my facts confused.
Crystal owned 1020 in Roswell as well as WLVJ.
He/they sold the roswell station to christiana something-or-other and sold 'LVJ for $2.4 million to the 1020 in Miami.
The Miami station plans on simulcasting on 'LVJ
'LVJ can't seem to get away from 1020's
Sooo...Creole, Spanish, Preachers...no great loss

 

[cd637299]

1020, from what I understand, will also have a relay on FM in Key Largo on 95.3, with 21 kW---same call letters, WURN.

I didn't know WURN 1020 was such an influence!

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[northwoods]

My thought on this would be will Ken Held be able to continue the "Doo Wop Shop" on 1040 or will the Doo Wop Shop have to find a new home. Stay tuned I guess.

 

[northwoods]

My thought on this would be will Ken Held be able to continue the "Doo Wop Shop" on 1040 or will the Doo Wop Shop have to find a new home. Stay tuned I guess.

Already got the answer. Moving January 1 to WFTL 850 starting at 6pm EST.

 

[Ai4i]

Much better signal...now if they could just get a 250w FM in Broward!

 

[cd637299]

Much better signal...now if they could just get a 250w FM in Broward!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

(The above poster knows I am a DXer)

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[FLjack2]

My thought on this would be will Ken Held be able to continue the "Doo Wop Shop" on 1040 or will the Doo Wop Shop have to find a new home. Stay tuned I guess.

Already got the answer. Moving January 1 to WFTL 850 starting at 6pm EST.

So James Crystal is putting Doo Wop on their Talk station? Anything for a buck I suppose. And they wonder why the ratings for the station SUCK.

 

[Faraway]

"So James Crystal is putting Doo Wop on their Talk station? Anything for a buck I suppose. And they wonder why the ratings for the station SUCK."

As I recall, back in the day, Ken's show was on WIOD on Sunday mornings.

 

[FLjack2]

They key is WAS. I highly doubt a station that wants to be a "news and/or talk" station in the market would put a doo wop show on in 2011

 

[johntherogger]

I would if it was AM, not FM. There's something about the sound of Doo Wop over am modulation!

 

[popcorn2000]

Although most of us have seen it already, I'm sure:
From All Access: http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/a...-s-purchase-of-wkdn-philadelphia-2?ref=search

"In other filings with the FCC, JAMES CRYSTAL ENTERPRISES' JCE LICENSES, L.L.C. is selling Religion WLVJ-A/BOYNTON BEACH, FL to ACTUALIDAD 1040AM LICENSEE, LLC for $2.3 million plus a time brokerage agreement before closing. The buyer, through parent ACTUALIDAD LICENSEE 1020AM, LLC, owns Ethnic WURN-A (RADIO MEGA)/KENDALL-MIAMI, FL and recently bought the construction permit for WURN-F/KEY LARGO."

1040 WLVJ already pulled the website site for their "Family Values Radio," but still hearing their old format...I guess til the end of the year.

I read somewhere that Actualidad is going to simulcast 1020 Kendall onto 1040 Boyton...can't remember where though, lost the link.

 

[popcorn2000]

They key is WAS. I highly doubt a station that wants to be a "news and/or talk" station in the market would put a doo wop show on in 2011

I'll be damned, they really are! I am as suprised as you are. Ken Held's been posting the announcment on his web presence:
http://tunein.com/radio/The-Ken-Held-Doo-Wop-Shop-p108139/