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Woof Boom to buy Lafayette's 106.7, former WGLM

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EMF sells WKHL to Muncie's Woof Boom, adding to their existing stations and new purchases in Lima. Jim Stone, who has had some experience in Lafayette as well as Terre Haute and other places, will be the managing partner running the station. I'm not sure what the current market hole is in Lafayette, and I can see a disadvantage in there seemingly being no additional stations for sale in Lafayette, and Woof Boom having 106.7 as a standalone. From what I understand, Woof Boom is a good company, so we will see. EMF's K-Love will continue on a non-comm frequency.

https://radioink.com/2017/10/04/woof-boom-purchases-fm-emf/
 
Pure speculation. Probably outlandish speculation. Could Woof Boom have been interested in the Schurz cluster that ended up with Neuhoff? Passed over, Woof Boom now picks up 106.7. The managing partner appears to have rock experience. Could 106.7 go rock hoping to hurt 'KHY enough that Neuhoff sells their Lafayette cluster to Woof Boom?

Yeah. Now I'm playing "fantasy football".
 
I somehow don't see WB doing something out of revenge. I'm not sure what the format holes may still be in Lafayette, but they're going to have to pick one and make it count.
 
As I said, "outlandish speculation". Maybe I was looking back to Dayton and what Radio One did to get control of WROU. It's been 25 years but I've worked with J Chapman and emphatically no, I don't see him operating that way. But you're very right about it being a stand-alone. Doubt he'd go into that without a game plan for future growth in place.

As for format holes? In over-radio'ed Lafayette, Indiana? We still travel through there a few times a year. There's no AC unless you count your old "friends" in Frankfort. I do think that with Jim Stone's experience, some flavor of rock is a real possibility. Isn't the market, or for that matter the signal, too small to get too niche-y? Don't most of the obvious niche formats work best in a cluster?

So basically, your guess is as good as mine. Paul Poteet is on Woof Boom's WERK Muncie. Will this mean his return to 106.7? And yes. J Chapman is a career radio guy, son of a career radio guy. A true pro who's learned from some of the best including Emmis. He'll do well in Lafayette.
 
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Paul and I work together on an ongoing video project in the Smoky Mountains and we've talked a bit about it (I'm not moving back to be his board op LOL). He found one of his 90s WGLM airchecks and sent that along for giggles. I'm sure he'd like to be back on in Lafayette.

Unless something's changed, WGLM doesn't have a full market signal, especially on the south side and now that the south side has grown south of where WAZY is, that should be even more true. As you said, niches don't work on a standalone. It would be weird to have some kind of return of WGLM (if not the calls).
 
I have no idea where any of my old GLM tapes are. Wasn't there long either time but sure had fun. Really great staff. Really bad signal. Only, maybe, 95.3 Brookston is close to as far out of town as 106.7. And now 106.7 is bookend'ed by a translator and an LPFM from those sticks on Concord Road just west of the Mall. Stumbled across the GLM calls on a small town FM north of Grand Rapids, Michigan a few years back.
 
It was a great little station and I'm not sure what led to its eventual sale to EMF. Dan McKay seems to be doing OK with 479xx, his internet station. I guess Woof Boom having a station in Lafayette beats not having a station in Lafayette, but they dominate in Muncie and Marion, they're buying a cluster in Lima that won't include the biggest signal in town but they'll have a group of solid stations.
I can't imagine what else would be coming for sale anytime soon there. Vern Kaspar has to be in his 90s by now but WILO/WSHW is a lifetime job for his son Russ, and I imagine someone has been around with a big check over the years but the Kaspar's still have it.
 
The format flip was this afternoon at 1:06pm. Slogan is "Q106.7, the best of yesterday and today". I''m way out of range. Lafayette locals, what are you hearing?
 
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