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WQXL -- Sold (well, almost sold)

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DudeFan

Alex Snipe's Glory Communications filed an assignment of license and agreement to purchase WQXL Columbia for $200,000.

The sale will close pending FCC approval of the transfer.

WQXL will join WGCV (620) and WEAF Camden. No indication in the contract whether WQXL's studios will be relocated to Millwood Avenue.
 
Well, that partly explains the WQXL CP at the location of 620's tower site. Wow. 200k, hell I could've bought it and I thought about looking into it..i didn't think that church that owned it would be willing to part with it. Oh well, fortune favors the bold. Now, what format will they give it to compliment and enhance that cluster, anyone care to guess?
 
The ball started rolling when WQXL lost the lease on its transmitter site. They had arranged to diplex with 620 and bought the transmitter to go up to 10kw daytime. From what I learned from the grapevine, the costs of diplexing are large and those costs, combined with an inability of the parties to agree on the rent for the right to diplex, caused things to stall out until now.

I believe there is only a short period for WQXL to get the site built, tested, and on the air before the CP expires permanently.

We looked into potentially forming a group and making on offer on 1470, but the numbers didn't make sense to us. The capital needed to get it back on the air and the operating costs associated with AM were obligations that would have been onerous to us.

I'm glad Alex saved it.

I am sure you'll probably have some urban-oriented programming on 1470. The engineering work that he's done on 620 has vastly improved 620. I would expect the same with 1470.
 
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