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WZTK To Drop Talk For Christmas Music

Midwestern Broadcasting will drop Conservative Talk on 105.7 WZTK Alpena MI on Thanksgiving Day as the station will move to Christmas music through the holiday season. The station has not yet stated plans for the station for after Christmas, but it is expected to debut a new format. WZTK currently features an all-syndicated lineup including […] […]

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Format Holes and the Finite Dial

What does a format hole even mean now? In the early ’90s, when I lived in New York, I looked forward to my trips to Long Island, or my drives to Boston along the Connecticut coast, so I could hear Alternative WDRE/WLIR. In the mid-’90s, when New York lost full-signal Country and the new WYNY […] […]

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BTC USA Acquires Five In Michigan’s Upper Peninsula

After agreeing to purchase Frontier Media LLC’s stations in Texarkana AR/TX and Juneau, Ketchikan, and Sitka AK last month, BTC USA Holdings Management, Inc. has agreed to purchase five stations in Northern Michigan. The company, led by 107.9 KUZZ-FM Bakersfield morning host Cliff Dumas, will acquire J&J Broadcasting’s Hot AC “Mix 93.5” WKMJ-FM Hancock, Classic […] […]

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El Gallo Wakes Up Cedar Rapids

George Flinn’s 107.1 KRQN Vinton/Cedar Rapids IA has flipped to Regional Mexican “El Gallo 107.1“. KRQN had been airing Conservative Talk prgramming from USA Radio Networks since its LMA with Townsquare Media came to an end in May 2021. Townsquare and previously Cumulus operated the station as CHR “i107.1” for a decade. The station is […] […]

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Station Sales Week Of 11/18

Craig Donnelly’s CD Broadcasting sells AC 98.9 KQCR-FM Parkersburg and Country 104.9 KLMJ Hampton IA to Shawn Dietz’ On the Go Media, Inc. for $1.25 million. Dietz previously served as Program Director of the stations from 2009 to 2020 and General Manager from 2018 to 2020. He most recently served as an account executive for […] […]