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Salsa 98.1 Orlando To Sign-Off This Weekend

Posted: 16 Apr 2021 01:49 PM PDT
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Entravision Spanish Tropical 98.1 Salsa y Más WNUE-FM Deltona/Orlando FL
will drop its format on Monday as a new operator prepares to take over
operations of the station.

Program Director/morning host Arnaldo JR Al Aire Olivieri posted a video
explaining that the entire staff of the station has been let go ahead of
the LMA. No details yet about who will be taking over the station after
this weekend, although rumors in the market center on English language
Christian operators.

WNUE-FM had a 1.9 share in the February 2021 Nielsen Audio ratings. That
placed it behind iHeartMedias Rumba 100.3 WRUMs 5.6 share and Cox Media
Groups Spanish CHR Exitos 96.5 WOEXs 2.4 share.

Entravision also operates Univisions two television stations in the Orlando
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Susie Korgul Joins 103.1 The Wolf Orlando

Posted: 16 Apr 2021 10:35 AM PDT
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JVC Media Country 103.1 The Wolf WOTW-FM Windermere/Orlando FL has
announced the addition of Susie Korgul as morning co-host.

Korgul most recently served as Music Director and hosted middays at Audacy
Hot AC Mix 105.1 WOMX until resigning in December. She has also worked at
WBVD Melbourne, WAPE Jacksonville and the syndicated Mike Harvey Show.

Korgul joins incumbent morning host Chad Hallmark in morning at WOTW
replacing Jenn Lopez who exited last year. Lopez has since joined WOMXs
morning show.

JVC Media of Florida, one of America’s largest independent and locally
owned broadcast and entertainment companies, continues to staff the company
with live and local radio pros! JVC announces the addition of Susie Korgul
to Orlando’s Country 103.1 The Wolf (WOTW). Susie will join existing
morning host Chad to form The Morning Wolfpack airing weekdays from
6am-10am. Until her resignation in December, Susie served as Music
Director and midday host at Audacy’s Hot AC WOMX Orlando. Prior to WOMX,
she worked at WBVD Melbourne, FL, WAPE Jacksonville, and with the
syndicated Mike Harvey Show.

“Over the years, I have been blessed to work with and learn from so many
wonderful people in the radio industry. When the opportunity came to join
103.1 The Wolf, to tackle the challenges and feel the excitement of
building a new morning show PLUS stay here in the city I love, it was an
easy decision to say YES!� says Susie. “I can’t thank PD Murph, Director
of Programming Stevie DeMann, JVC Executive Shane Reeve, and JVC
CEO/President John Caracciolo for putting their faith in me. Chad and I
are ecstatic to introduce The Morning Wolfpack to Central Florida and give
country music fans original, relatable, engaging, and fun morning radio!�.

WOTW PD Murph comments, “Susie is a veteran in the Orlando market, with
amazing talent, who is also involved in many community initiatives. The
dynamic between Chad and Susie is going to attach itself to the hearts of
the audience and I’m looking forward to the very bright and winning future
of The Morning Wolfpack with Chad and Susie!�.

JVC’s Florida Director of Programming Stevie DeMann added, “I’m excited
Susie is joining the JVC team! It is going to be fun to watch her lend her
incredible wit, charitable heart, and relentless creativity to 103.1 The
Wolf and the Orlando radio market. Wolf Country is going to love waking up
to The Morning Wolfpack with Chad and Susie!�

Susie joins The Morning Wolfpack on Monday April 19th, 2021. To reach
Susie, please email her at



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AdExchanger: iHeartMedias Black Information Network Is Monetizing The
Old-School Way: Sponsorships

Posted: 16 Apr 2021 09:50 AM PDT
https://www.adexchanger.com/the-sell...-sponsorships/





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Domain Insight 4/16: What's Next For Recently Sold Stations In Wichita,
Toledo & Chattanooga?

Posted: 16 Apr 2021 09:35 AM PDT
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Recent domain registrations spotlight upcoming changes coming in Wichita,
Toledo and Chattanooga. Plus a new Spanish CHR brand coming to Delaware.
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First Listen: Aaron Axelsens Flood FM

Posted: 16 Apr 2021 09:00 AM PDT
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The publicity for Flood FM refers to Aaron Axelsen as their showrunner.
It’s the type of positioning I’ve wished radio would use for a long time (I
had just been hoping more stations would use “music supervisor�). But
Axelsen was APD/MD/p.m. driver at Alternative KITS San Francisco for more
than twenty years, through both its Live 105 and Alt 105.3 incarnations.
When he left last April, he didn’t just tweet his goodbyes, the Killers
tweeted about his departure.

Launched in conjunction with music and culture site Flood Magazine, Flood
FM will also become the home of Axelsen’s long-running electronica program
Subsonic. He’s also promising “daily on-air personalities,� guest DJ sets,
and “Flood Flashback Sundays.� One of the stations sweepers declares “if
you love music, but hate corporate radio, we got you.�

Flood FM is being positioned as “Indie, Alternative, and Electronic.�
Listening to it, you also hear the extent to which Alternative and Triple-A
have intersected recently. Here’s Flood FM on April 14:

MGMT, “Electric Feel�
Boy Pablo, “Feeling Lonely�
The War on Drugs, “Pain�
Girl in Red, “Serotonin�
Emmit Fenn, “Moving Onâ€�Â*
The DMA’s, “Silver�
Chvrches, “Recover�
Jungle, “Keep Movin’�
Avalanches, “Wherever You Go�
Vampire Weekend, “Harmony Hall�
Grrrl Gang, “Honey Baby�
Robyn, “Missing You�




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KPRF Drops A Bomb On Amarillo

Posted: 16 Apr 2021 05:26 AM PDT
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Townsquare Media flipped Classic Rock Thunder 98.7 KPRF Amarillo TX to
Classic Hits as 98.7 The Bomb on March 31.

The new format places the station in direct format competition with Alpha
Medias market leading 100.9 The Eagle. KXGL had a 14.8 share in the Fall
2020 Nielsen Audio ratings, while KPRF had a 3.1 share.

Former 102.3 The Beat KPEZ Austin PD/morning host Ryan Kramer has joined
the Townsquare Amarillo cluster as Brand Manager and afternoon host. He is
also programming CHR 96.9 Kiss-FM KXSS and hosting middays on that station.
Prior to the eight years he spent at KPEZ, Kramer was APD of CHR 96.1
Kiss-FM KSME Fort Collins CO.

The remainder of the KPRF lineup will include WFGR Grand Rapids Casey
Daniels and JoJo Girard in mornings, WSAK/WSHK Portsmouth NH OM/midday host
Sarah Sullivan in middays, and Townsquares syndicated The Night Shift with
Craig Allen.



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Station Sales Week Of 4/16

Posted: 16 Apr 2021 04:30 AM PDT
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Black Diamond Broadcasting acquires CHR 95.3 WCFX Clare/Mount Pleasant MI
from Grenax Broadcasting for $500,000. Black Diamond, which owns nine
stations across Central and Northern Michigan, will begin operating WCFX
via Time Brokerage Agreement on May 1.

MBM Texas Valley sells 95.3 KZSP South Padre Island TX to Xavier Cantus
Xavier Entertainment LLC for $85,000. Xavier, which owns 98.7 KOTX
Hebbronville TX, began operating KZSP via LMA on April 15.

Nick Jenkins Compass Enterprise Inc. sells Oldies 930 KCCC Carlsbad NM to
Johnathan Chandlers Chandler Broadcasting for $50,000.
Translator Sales

Dan Alperts Ginger Broadcasting sells 107.9 K300DU Greenshores/Austin TX to
Rehan Siddiqis Austin Media Broadcasting LLC for $310,000. The translator
already airs Siddiqis South Asian Hum-FM programming fed via Audacys 95.5
KKMJ-HD3. Siddiqi also operates multiple translators in the Houston market.



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Larry Wilson Accuses Alpha Media Of False Certifications And Unauthorized
Transfers Of Control

Posted: 15 Apr 2021 04:48 PM PDT
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Alpha Media founder and former Chairman/CEO Larry Wilson has filed a
Petition To Deny with the FCC against the companys Chapter 11 bankruptcy
restructuring.

In the filing, Wilson accuses Alpha Medias Board of Directors of multiple
violations including making false certifications on multiple FCC
applications, transferring control of the companys operations without Board
approval to a “Special Independent Committee without seeking FCC approval
for transfer of control, and pursuing a foreign ownership structure set out
in the above-captioned applications with the purpose and intent to freeze
the current Alpha domestic shareholders out of the company and for the sole
benefit of Alpha management, private equity investors, and foreign entities.

Wilson stepped down as Chairman of Alpha Media in July 2018 after forming
the companys predecessor Alpha Broadcasting in 2009 with the purchase of
CBS Radio’s and Rose City Radio’s stations in Portland. In the filing
Wilson details what he believes led to his exit from the company in
particular his clashes with Stephens Capital Partners Noel Strauss, a
member of the companys Board of Directors.

Wilson alleges that at the behest of Strauss and fellow director Breakwater
Investment Managements Saif Mansour, the company failed to hold a Board of
Directors meeting from mid-2018 to early 2019 as required by the companys
governing documents, purported to fire Wilson as Chairman despite never
holding the necessary board vote to do so, entered into a loan agreement
with Intermediate Capital Group that required the company to divest $110
million worth of assets without the necessary board approval. Wilson claims
that he had an alternate proposal in which former Digity CEO Dean Goodman
and Southern Stone Communications CEO and Alpha board member Paul Stone
would have invested $30 to $40 million themselves into Alpha in exchange
for equity in the company. That proposal was claimed to have been rejected
without being proposed to the board to not dilute the equity interests of
the two entities they represented.

Wilson alleges that the divestitures including the $80 million sale of
their West Palm Beach cluster to Hubbard all were done without necessary
corporate authorization. Wilson and another former board member notified
that the violations included false representations made to the FCC and
belatedly called a meeting in January 2019 to ratify the divestitures and
authorize the FCC filings although Wilson wrote to the companys CFO, To
vote in favor now is an admission that the agreement was not properly
approved and clear evidence that the FCC has been misled by Alpha.�
Following the meeting Wilson resigned from the Alpha Media Board of
Directors.

Wilson then claims that the company adopted a Fifth Amended and Restated
Limited Liability Company Agreement over the dissent of all minority
shareholders which eliminated the core fiduciary duties of each board
member and created a “Special Independent Committee comprised of Strauss
and Mansour with full power and authority to make significant decisions
“regarding any proposed transactions to restructure, reorganize, or
recapitalize the Company.� He states that the committee accepted
Intermediate Capital Groups prepackaged bankruptcy plan without the
knowledge or approval of any of the minority shareholders and that the two
directors and Alpha President/CEO Bob Proffitt may well have effectively
transferred control of Alpha to ICG ahead of the filing as the current lack
of corporate transparency has foreclosed the acquisition of facts regarding
Petitioner’s belief that Alpha is continuing to operate outside the
dictates of its governing documents.

Wilson and a separate petition to deny filed by Paul Stone also claim that
the restructuring attempts to circumvent the FCCs 25% limit on foreign
investment before requesting a petition for declaratory ruling. Stone
writes, Alpha is asking the Media Bureau to essentially undercut the
balance and sanctity of this new process by granting it a temporary waiver
of the requirement to demonstrate that its proposed foreign ownership is in
the public interest. Stone is concerned that if the FCC were to later
determine Alphas foreign ownership is not in the public interest coming
into compliance later would be complicated as the Bankruptcy Court has
already approved the restructuring which is not contingent on a grant of a
declaratory ruling in surpassing the 25% foreign ownership limit.

Wilsons full petition can be read here.

Update 4/16: Alpha Media has responded with a brief statement.

“While we believe the petition is based on inaccurate information and
baseless claims, Alpha Media remains squarely focused on serving our
communities and operating our radio stations across the United States. Our
core business continues to perform well despite current market challenges,
and we are proud of what all our teams have accomplished in delivering
dynamic, diverse and exciting content to our communities. We continue to
achieve significant progress in our financial restructuring process, which
has been confirmed by the Court and best positions Alpha Media with strong
financial partners to navigate current market conditions and pursue growth
opportunities.�