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IOWA: Truth Broadcasting's KTIA-FM/99.3 (Boone) had originally applied to change its community of license to Johnston with a transmitter in Saylorville, which the FCC rejected due to rules intended to prevent station moves from rural areas to urbanized areas. KTIA-FM then applied to change its community of license to Huxley with a transmitter near Sheldahl, not as close to Des Moines as the original proposal. The move would've kept Des Moines outside of KTIA-FM's city-grade (70 dbu) contour but would have tripled the number of people in its protected (60 dbu) contour. Saga Broadcasting objected to the application, which was followed by several more responses back and forth. Ultimately, the FCC rejected KTIA-FM's application after determining it would be theoretically possible for KTIA-FM move to a different tower site to cover more than half of the Ames Urbanized Area after its community of license was changed to Huxley. Thus, the application was considered a proposal to move from a rural area to an urbanized area and denied. KTIA's move would have required KPUL-FM/99.5 (Winterset) to move to 101.7 which, in turn, would have displaced Iowa Public Radio translator K269EJ/101.7 (Des Moines). The translator already has a construction permit to move to 97.7. KTIA-FM carries a Christian Talk format. (12/20/2013)
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10W, Educational Media Foundation.
(12/2/2013) IOWA: The FCC has granted an upgrade for Fife Communications' "Mix 93.5" (KCVM Hudson-Cedar Falls-Waterloo). KCVM will change its community of license to Evansdale and increase from its present 6kW/99m to 24.5kW/81m from a tower near Dunkerton, upgrading from class A to C3. Though the change will leave Hudson without a license, KCVM successfully argued that the move should be allowed because both Hudson and Evansdale are within the Waterloo/Cedar Falls Urbanized Area. (11/26/2013) IOWA: KGYM/1600 translator K298BM/107.5 (Cedar Rapids) is temporarily off the air pending a transmitter move. The 250-Watt translator, which signed on last year, tells the FCC it was forced to sign of Nov. 8 after the landlord ordered it to leave its tower on the southwest side of the city by. The FCC has granted a construction permit to move to a tower on the northeast side while remaining 250 Watts. K298BM carries KGYM, an ESPN affiliate, via the HD4 signal of sister station KZIA/102.9, a setup which allows the AM and FM signals to carry different sports play-by-play. KGYM also feeds a translator in Iowa City via KZIA-HD3. (11/25/2013) NEW FM TRANSLATORS GRANTED:
IOWA: The FCC has given Townsquare Media a deadline for spinning off three stations in the Waterloo area. The situation arose when Townsquare reached a deal to buy Cumulus Media's groups in Waterloo and Cedar Rapids, among others. Trouble is, the market designation for three Waterloo-area stations (KKHQ/92.3 Oelwein, KCRR/97.7 Grundy Center, and KOEL-FM/98.5 Cedar Falls) was changed to Cedar Rapids last year after the Waterloo market was dissolved, putting Cumulus over the ownership cap for the market and requiring devistiture when the stations were sold. On Friday, the FCC announced that Townsquare's divestiture trust will face a two-year deadline for spinning off the stations. It's not yet clear if Townsquare can keep the stations simply by asking Nielsen Audio to remove their designations as Cedar Rapids-market stations, since all three are licensed to communities outside of the market. (11/9/2013) IOWA/WISCONSIN: Nexstar Broadcasting will run the CBS, FOX, and CW affiliates in the Quad Cities market after the purchase Grant Company's TV stations. Nexstar will pay $87.5 million for Grant's seven stations in four markets, including FOX affiliate KLJB/18.1 (Davenport), CW affiliate KCGW/26.1 (Burlington-Quad Cities), FOX affiliate WLAX/25.1 (La Crosse), and WLAX satellite WEUX/48.1 (Chippewa Falls-Eau Claire). Nexstar is already in the process of buying CBS affiliate WHBF/4.1 (Rock Island-Quad Cities) and will divest KLJB to Mission Broadcasting but continue to operate the station under a local service agreement. The transfer could mean yet another change for KLJB's 9 p.m. newscast, which was produced by Independent News Network and then ABC affiliate WQAD before being switched to NBC affiliate KWQC at the beginning of the year. (11/6/2013) IOWA: James Coloff is buying most of Susan Coloff's interest in Pilot Knob Broadcasting, the licensee of KIOW/107.3 (Forest City). The buyer will pay $343,000 for 49 percent interest in the company, with the seller retaining 1 percent. Anthony Coloff owns the other 50 percent of the company. Anthony and Susan are husband and wife and James is their son. The Coloffs also own several other radio stations in Iowa with different ownership structures. (11/1/2013)
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GRANTED:(Iowa in bold face) IOWA/NEBRASKA/WISCONSIN: The purchase price for Cyrus Capital Partners' purchase of controlling interest in NRG Media is $70 million, according to paperwork filed with the FCC. Waitt Media Holdings is selling its 79.74 percent stake in the Cedar Rapids-based company to funds held by Cyrus, which are ultimately owned by Stephen Freidheim of New York. The full ownership structure is detailed here. Quass Communications, LLC, James T. Smith, and Charles DuCoty maintain minority ownership in NRG Media, which owns seven stations in Illinois, six in Iowa, sixteen in Nebraska, and thirteen in Wisconsin. (10/22/2013)
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IOWA/NEBRASKA/WISCONSIN: Terms were not disclosed for either sale but will likely become available in FCC filings once the federal government reopens. (10/10/2013)
IOWA/NEBRASKA: Longtime readers will recall that Connoisseur Media attempted to activate the frequency in the mid-2000's but was refunded its $4,397,250 auction bid after determining that complaints about interference to navigation equipment at Eppley Airfield and Offutt Air Force Base would prevent the station from ever going on the air. Now, Victor Michael's Kona Coast Radio is encountering a similar problem as it attempts to activate KIMI/107.7 (Sidney, IA) from a tower near Tabor, which would deliver a rimshot signal to Omaha. In an application filed with the FCC shortly before the government shutdown, KIMI states that it was contacted by the Federal Aviation Administration about possible intermodulation interference to equipment at Offut after the 50kW ERP facility had already been constructed. (A picture of the tower submitted with the application appears at the right.) IOWA: KCRG-TV (Cedar Rapids) has added Live Well Network on channel 9.3, replacing a locally-originated weather channel that had been on the air for two years. Live Well Network carries first-run lifestyle programming and five hours of infomercials daily. KCRG carries ABC on 9.1 and while 9.2 carries syndicated shows, local programming, and My Network TV in late night. (9/30/2013) SOUTH DAKOTA/MINNESOTA/IOWA/NEBRASKA: FOX affiliate KTTW/7 (Sioux Falls) is off DISH Network amid a retransmission consent dispute. At midnight Tuesday night, DISH replaced KTTW with a slide saying that station owner Independent Communications is seeking a seven-fold rate increase. KTTW says on its website that it's seeking fair compensation to cover rising costs. The Sioux Falls TV market covers the eastern half of South Dakota as well as portions of southwestern Minnesota, northwestern Iowa, and northern Nebraska. (9/25/2013) IOWA: Western Illinois University is buying K239AF/95.7 (Burlington) from World Radio Link for $25,000. The application to transfer the license states K239AF will relay the "Tri States Public Radio" format of WIUM/91.3 (Macomb, IL). K239AF is currently licensed for a coverage area north of Burlington and has a construction permit to move farther north. (9/24/2013) WISCONSIN/NEBRASKA/IOWA: Journal Broadcasting stations returned to Time Warner Cable Friday night after a retransmission consent dispute that lasted nearly two months. Affected stations included NBC affiliates WTMJ-TV/4 (Milwaukee) and WGBA/26 (Green Bay), My Network TV station WACY/32 (Appleton-Green Bay), CBS affiliate KMTV/3 (Omaha), and their subchannels. Though they're back on Time Warner, the co-owned Journal Sentinel reports TMJ4 is actually being carried on channel 2 in Milwaukee and channel 83 in Racine and Kenosha since Time Warner sold the rights to channel 4 to GSN during the dispute. WGBA also has new channel numbers. (9/19/2013) Des Moines, IOWA: Iowa's largest AM signal is poised to get an FM rebroadcast: Clear Channel News/Talker WHO/1040 (Des Moines) is listed as the station to be rebroadcast on K229CC/93.7 (Winterset) if an application to move to Des Moines is approved. The translator, owned by First Ventures Capital Partners, would remain licensed to Winterset but would move to a tower owned by WHO-TV in downtown Des Moines with the maximum translator power of 250 Watts. It's currently licensed as K230AT on 93.9 in Winterset and has a construction permit to move to 93.7 as K229CC from a tower midway between Winterset and Des Moines. (9/17/2013) IOWA/ILLINOIS: Nexstar Broadcasting is buying Citadel Communications' three TV stations in Iowa for $88 million. The stations are ABC affiliate WOI-DT/5 (Ames-Des Moines), CBS affiliate WHBF-TV/4 (Rock Island, IL-Davenport), and ABC affiliate KCAU-TV/9 (Sioux City). Nexstar will begin operating the stations immediately under a Time Brokerage Agreement. The company has no other stations in Iowa but does own or operate six stations in Illinois and will have operations in 51 markets once this and other transactions are completed. Citadel Communications, which is not related to the former radio broadcaster, will retain ownership of ABC affiliate KLKN/8 (Lincoln, NE) and stations in Rhode Island and Florida. (9/16/2013) IOWA: The FCC has approved a proposal to move the RF broadcast channel of KGAN/2.1 (Cedar Rapids) from 51 to 29. KGAN proposed the change because channel 51 is directly adjacent to spectrum King Street Wireless, L.P. bought after the FCC discontinued channels 52 to 69 for TV use. Regulators failed to leave a buffer between TV channel 51 and new wireless frequencies. KGAN, a Sinclair Broadcasting CBS affiliate, will continue to use 850kW at 585m and could continue remapping to channel 2.1. (9/13/2013) IOWA: It turns out Waterloo is the home of the three radio stations to be divested as part of Townsquare Media's $260 million purchase of a dozen market groups from Cumulus Media. An application seeks to move KKHQ/92.3 (Oelwein-Waterloo), KCRR/97.7 (Grundy Center-Waterloo), and KOEL-FM/98.5 (Cedar Falls-Waterloo) into the Cedar Rapids Divestiture Trust, headed by Allen N. Blum. Though the stations are all licensed outside of the geographic boundaries of the Arbitron-defined Cedar Rapids market, a BIA Kelsey report submitted as part of the license transfer applications says their designated markets were changed to Cedar Rapids last year after the Waterloo market was dissolved. (Several larger Waterloo stations that have stronger signals to Cedar Rapids, owned by a different group, are not regarded as part of the Cedar Rapids market.) Townsquare intends to keep KOEL/950 (Oelwein), which has the same community of license as KKHQ but was not assigned to the Cedar Rapids market. In Cedar Rapids, Townsquare is buying KRNA/94.1 (Iowa City-Cedar Rapids), KHAK/98.1 (Cedar Rapids), and KDAT/104.5 (Cedar Rapids) and intends to assume a time brokerage agreement to operate KRQN/107.1 (Vinton-Cedar Rapids). Townsquare is also getting Cumulus' group in the Quad Cities as part of the transaction and Cumulus' Dubuque group in a related deal. (9/4/2013)
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IOWA/ILLINOIS: Britt, IOWA: Coloff Media's KHAM/103.1 (Britt) would serve the rural area between Mason City and Fort Dodge, with a rimshot signal to Forest City, under an application filed with the FCC. KHAM is currently licensed for 200 Watts and would upgrade to 19kW/115m (class C3) from a tower east of Kanawha. A coverage map is on page 7 of this document. Coloff's holdings include KIOW/107.3 (Forest City) and two stations in the Mason City market, plus stations in Charles City and Manchester. (8/23/2013) Oskaloosa, IOWA: A new format is apparently coming to one of the radio stations in Oskaloosa. First Ventures Capital Partners translator K258BG/99.5 (Oskaloosa) has applied to move to the KBOE site north of town and specifies KBOE/740 as the station to be rebroadcast. The translator's power would remain 99 Watts. KBOE currently simulcasts a Country format with KBOE-FM/104.9, so one of the stations would presumably launch a new format if both have FM signals. (8/15/2013) IOWA/MISSOURI: A belated note that Ottumwa FOX affiliate KYOU-TV/15 has returned to DISH Network after a nine-day outage due to a retransmission consent dispute. The station is owned by American Sprit Media but Raycom Media handled negotiations, according to a statement on KYOU's website. (8/15/2013) IOWA: KWWF/22 (Waterloo) has gone off the air "due to financial difficulties," according to a notification of suspension of operations filed with the FCC. KWWF, owned by Stratus Communications, had carried Untamed Sports TV. The ten-year-old station has a long history, having served as a UPN affiliate and a beta tester for Retro Television Network before going silent from mid-2009 to mid-2010. (8/9/2013) Ames, IOWA: Family Radio's translator in Ames is poised to return to the air after being forced off last year by the sign-on of KHOI/89.1 (Story City). The translator formerly operated on 89.1 as K206AW and now has a construction permit to move to 89.5 as K208FV. It'll downgrade from 250 Watts to 27 Watts in the process. FCC filings indicate the translator left the air on August 20, 2012 and federal law requires it to return to the air by this August 20 to keep its license. (8/8/2013) MINNESOTA/WISCONSIN/IOWA: Shopping channel QVC is now available on broadcast TV in the Twin Cities and Milwaukee and may be coming to other major markets as well. ION owned-and-operated affiliates KPXM-DT/41 (St. Cloud-Minneapolis) and WPXE-DT/55 (Kenosha-Milwaukee) are now carrying QVC on their .5 channels. TitanTV listings also show QVC as being carried on the .5 channel of KPXR/48 (Cedar Rapids), KFPX/39 (Newton-Des Moines), and other ION O&O stations. ION O&O's also carry qubo on .2, ION Life on .3, and infomercials on .4. (8/6/2013) Marshalltown, IOWA: In a followup to an item from several weeks ago, MTN Broadcasting is buying the FM translator that's poised to relay MTN's KDAO/1190 (Marshalltown). MTN will pay First Ventures Capitol Partnership $21,000 for K279AN/103.7, which had already specified KDAO as the primary station for its proposed upgrade to 250 Watts from the KDAO transmitter site. The station carries "The True Oldies Channel." (8/2/2013)
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Cedar Rapids, IOWA: The FCC is considering a proposal to move the RF broadcast channel of KGAN/2.1 (Cedar Rapids) from 51 to 29. KGAN proposed the change because channel 51 is directly adjacent to spectrum King Street Wireless, L.P. bought after the FCC discontinued channels 52 to 69 for TV use. Regulators failed to leave a buffer between TV channel 51 and new wireless frequencies. A Notice of Proposed Rulemaking issued this week is the first step in changing TV allotments to specify channel 29 at Cedar Rapids in place of channel 51. KGAN, a Sinclair Broadcasting CBS affiliate, would continue to use 850kW at 585m and could continue remapping to channel 2.1. (7/18/2013) Marshalltown, IOWA: "True Oldies Channel" affiliate KDAO/1190 (Marshalltown) is poised to get an FM translator. K279AN/103.7 (Marshalltown), which is licensed for just 2.5 Watts, has applied to upgrade to 250 Watts and specified KDAO as the station to be rebroadcast. K279AN is owned by First Ventures Capital Partners; KDAO is owned by MTN Broadcasting. KDAO uses 250 Watts day and 21 Watts night. (7/8/2013) IOWA/ILLINOIS/WISCONSIN: The Tribune Corporation announced plans Monday to buy Local TV, LLC, which owns several stations in the Upper Midwest, for $2.725 billion. The stations include FOX 6 (WITI Milwaukee), NBC affiliate WHO-TV/13 (Des Moines), and ABC affiliate WQAD/8 (Moline-Davenport). The two companies had already shared some back-office functions and share facilities in the Denver and St. Louis markets. Tribune says after the deal is complete it will be the largest commercial TV station owner in the country with 42 stations, plus eight newspapers, the WGN America cable channel, and Tribune Studios. (7/1/2013) NEBRASKA/IOWA: A belated note that KZLW/90.1 (Gretna, NE) permanently signed on in May carrying Bible teaching and Christian music in a simulcast with KHLW/89.3 (Tabor, IA) as "Living Water Radio." KZLW had originally signed on last year but went silent citing electrical problems at its transmitter site near Wahoo, NE. The stations are owned by Calvary Chapel of Omaha and operated by Maranatha Fellowship of Bellevue. KZLW uses 100kW/21m (class C1) with a rimshot signal to Gretna and fringe coverage of Omaha and Lincoln. KHLW, which signed on in early 2012, uses 50kW/116m (class C2) from a tower just over the border in Missouri with coverage of Nebraska City and Shenandoah. (6/29/2013) IOWA: "K-Love" translator K205DC/88.9 (Sioux City) has moved to 100.1 with the new callsign K261DY. The move included an upgrade from 50 Watts to 250 Watts and comes in preparation for the sign-on of Little Priest Tribal College's KHGM/88.9 (Sioux City), which has until August 2014 to get on the air. (6/29/2013) IOWA/SOUTH DAKOTA: Iowa Public Radio and South Dakota Public Broadcasting will replace "Talk of the Nation," cancelled by NPR, with "Here and Now," the show NPR endorsed to replace it. The change in the 1 to 3 p.m. CT time slot takes effect July 1. As previously reported, Minnesota Public Radio is replacing TOTN with "The Takeaway" while Wisconsin Public Radio is revamping its schedule and will carry a statewide call-in show in the former TOTN timeslot. (6/27/2013) Cedar Falls, IOWA: Fife Communications is buying an FM translator for its Oldies-formatted KCFI/1250 (Cedar Falls-Waterloo). Fife will pay Starboard Media $12,500 for K232EO/94.3 (Waverly). The translator is currently licensed for a coverage area in Waverly and has not applied for a move towards Waterloo, but the application specifies KCFI as the station to be rebroadcast. (6/17/2013) Davenport, IOWA: The FCC has deleted the license of one-time UPN and My Network TV affiliate WBQD-LP/26 (Davenport). The Commission says in a letter to station licensee Four Seasons Peoria, LLC that its records indicate WBQD-LP has been silent since December 9, 2011. The station told the FCC that it went silent after losing its tower lease. Federal law says stations that are silent for more than a year will have their licenses deleted. WBQD-LP had signed on in 2002 and ID'd as "channel 16" based on its cable position; here are some screengrabs from its time on the air. At one time WBQD-LP was simulcast on WQAD/8.3 (Moline), which continues to carry My Network TV on its own and assumed WBQD's slot on cable. (6/15/2013)
NEBRASKA/IOWA: The day before the KETV announcement, NBC affiliate KWWL/7.1 (Waterloo) announced plans not to move. The Quincy Newspapers station says after an exhaustive review, it has decided to stay in the downtown Waterloo location it's used since 1958 but extensively renovate the facility. The KWWL Building is also home to KBOL-LP/100.1. (6/10/2013)
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DAKOTA/WISCONSIN Sioux City, IOWA: Puerto Rico-based Telecinco, Inc. is buying the construction permit for digital low-power TV station K14NV-D (Sioux City) from EICB-TV East for $40,000. Telecinco owns an Univision affiliate in Puerto Rico. EICB-TV also holds the construction permit for K45LM-D (Sioux City) and the agreement contains a provision calling on Telecinco to find a transmitter site that both stations can use. (6/4/2013)
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IOWA: Waterloo, IOWA: Cory Ford is the new morning host at Classic Hits KOKZ/105.7 (Waterloo). Ford took over the 6 to 10 a.m. shift on Monday (3/18). He replaces Paul Michaels, who's now announcing for sister stations ESPN 1330 (KWLO) and News/Talker KXEL/1540. (3/18/2013) Knoxville, IOWA: M&H Broadcasting is buying translator K237DH/95.3 (Pella) from First Ventures Capital Partners for $22,500. The sale was expected since a recent application showed that K237DH would relay M&H's KNIA/1320 (Knoxville) after the translator is moved from Pella to Knoxville and upgraded to 250 Watts. The FCC recently approved the move. (3/15/2013)
FM TRANSLATOR CHANGES APPROVED:K237DH/95.3 (Pella, IA) transmitter move to Knoxville and upgrade to 250W to relay KNIA/1320 (Knoxville)(3/13/2013)
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IOWA: IOWA: Iowa Public Radio says its new Classical station serving the Ames area, KICG/91.7 (Perry), is now on the air. Ames listeners without HD radios haven't been able to receive Classical music over the air since IPR flipped WOI-FM/90.1 (Ames-Des Moines) to its News and Adult Alternative service in September. The new station uses 10kW/110m (class C3) from a tower near Boone, delivering a rimshot signal to Ames and fringe coverage of Fort Dodge, which also lacks Classical service. (2/1/2013) IOWA: KCRG-TV/9 (Cedar Rapids) has returned to DISH Network after a retransmission consent dispute that kept the ABC affiliate off the satellite TV provider for more than a month. KCRG returned to DISH on Friday (1/25). The station did not say whether its subchannel would be carried on DISH, which was one of the issues cited by the station last month. (1/27/2013) IOWA: The Des Moines Register reports that KXLQ/1490 (Indianola) is now carrying ESPN Radio after former affiliate KBGG/1700 (Des Moines) switched to CBS Sports. KBGG is owned by Cumulus Media, which distributes CBS. KXLQ is owned by Birach Broadcasting and is being operated by longtime central Iowa sports broadcaster Marty Tirell, who relaunched "The Jock" format on the station last year with his own show and Yahoo! Sports Radio. The 1kW station has a rimshot signal to Des Moines but is somewhat difficult to hear in the capital city some nights since 1490 is a crowded frequency. (1/19/2013) NEBRASKA/IOWA: An FM station's plan to move into the Sioux City market is apparently on hold. In 2010, the FCC granted KCTY/104.9 (Wayne) a construction permit to change its community of license to Emerson and move its transmitter to a site near Hubbard, giving it a strong signal to Sioux City. The CP is due to expire in June and KCTY has now applied to remain at its current transmitter site but still change its community of license to Emerson, saying, "Due to financial restrictions, the authorized Construction Permit site location is no longer feasible." The station could re-apply for the Sioux City move-in, assuming no other station in the region files a competing proposal. (1/18/2013) IOWA: KMCS/93.1 (Muscatine) dropped its "MaC FM" Variety Hits format for a broad Classic-based Rock format as "Vintage Sound 93.1" on Monday (1/14). The Quad City Times reports personalities include two alums of Contemporary Hits-formatted "B100" (KBEA/99.7 Muscatine-Quad Cities): Anthony "Tony Tone" Loconsole in the mornings and "Pippa" in the afternoons. The "MaC FM" format will continue on sister station KMCN/94.7 (Clinton), which launched it simultaneously with KMCS in 2005 ("MaC" standing for "Muscatine and Clinton). Both stations have fringe signals to the Quad Cities. (1/12/2013, updated 1/14) IOWA/ILLINOIS: The Quad Cities are poised to get a second Spanish-language FM signal as "La Jefa" (WKBF/1270 Rock Island) adds an FM translator. K289BI/105.7 Davenport, owned by First Ventures Capital Partners, says in an application with the FCC that it'll carry WKBF if it gets permission to move its transmitter to the WKBF site in Moline and upgrade to 250 Watts. K289BI is currently licensed to transmit from northwest Davenport with 10 Watts. WKBF is owned by La Jefa Latino Broadcasting, LLC. The FM home of "La Jefa" would be right next door to another Spanish-language FM signal, K291BP/106.1 (Bettendorf). That station transmits with 250 Watts from Davenport and carries the non-commercial "Radio Bilingüe" network via the HD2 channel of KALA/88.5 (Davenport). (1/4/2013) IOWA: Three Eagles' KTLB/105.9 (Twin Lakes-Fort Dodge) started the year with the launch of "Hippie Radio," a `60s and `70s Rock format targetting baby boomers. The station dumped its brief-lived Oldies format a month ago for Christmas music and then stunted with loops of several songs between Christmas and New Year's. Three Eagles also owns "Classic Hits 92.1 The Eagle" (KZLB Fort Dodge), which focuses mainly on `70s and `80s Rock hits. "The Eagle" was originally on 105.9 and moved to 92.1 when "The Blaze" was extinguished last year; 105.9 revived its previous "Beach" branding for what turned out to only be eight months. (1/1/2013) If you would like to contribute a news item, e-mail wowradio@wowradioonline.net2009/2010 Archives 2011 Archives 2012 Archives |
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