Back in an
August 2019 thread, Hockeyfan asked: “So what happened to Orlando Alzugary and 1210? Was supposed to "Revolutionize" Miami talk radio?” And in
October 2020, johntherogers asked what happened as well, as he heard Spanish speaking and music. I too, also heard the technical snafus – that ran for hours on end, by the way -- as two sets of programs overlapped each other, post “The Man."
But as johntherogger point out, correctly: WNMA 1210 – as well as WJCC 1700 which diplexes off the WNMA sticks – is gone. A shopping plaza, is in fact, is going up at the site.
As you can see from this
Google Satellite Map, you have the exact same issue that took WWNN and diplexing WSBR off the air: urban sprawl. It’s the last slice of green space in that western area, so WNMA/WJCC was squeezed out of existence.
As for “The Man”: It’s no secret Tony Catalyud and Orlando Alzugaray’s BIG PLANS with Cielo Media’s LMA “reinventing South Florida radio” fell apart.
To answer John: Big O walk out -- and so did most of the staff and shows on the payroll they had. That’s when they ended up doing what all the dying/bad signal AM’s do down here: broker to anyone – in that case, to the homeless brokers of WZAB 880 when Salem sold it and got out of South Florida, in whole. Tony reinvented NOTHING, as WNMA ended up being just another stale AM brokering to anyone – come one, come all! Sports ("We're not a sports station!" Uh, yes you were, it's all you talked about.), doctors, Caribbean talk and music, we have it all!
I think we all figured Cielo Media bailed on the LMA -- for the web -- due their own business failures. Now, we know it’s because the land sale. But . . .
I also have to add: Gary Aybar, who was with Entercom (and I think, Cox) is suing Tony Catalyud. So it is odd how “The Man” leaving the air also, coincides with the Aybar’s lawsuit. You can read the docket,
here.
Anyone know if Aybar worked at “The Man” or what the suit is about?
Did, or is, the Big O, suing Cielo? Can’t find anything on that, either.
So yeah. Land sale. Lawsuits. “The Man,” at least on terrestrial radio, is done. (Are you, is anyone, going to listen to them on the web? No.)
