Conservative talk staying at WJAS
by Scott Fybush fybush.com
*Veteran western Pennsylvania owner Frank Iorio has found a buyer for his last station. St. Barnabas Broadcasting, Inc., an offshoot of the St. Barnabas Health System, will pay Iorio’s Pittsburgh Radio Partners LLC $2.05 million for WJAS (1320) and translator W256DE (99.1) in Pittsburgh.
There’s no property included in the sale – Iorio was leasing the two-tower AM site, as well as subleasing studio and office space from iHeart at its Green Tree cluster facility. And there’s no format change planned for WJAS, which effectively took over the syndicated lineup that iHeart dropped from WPGB (104.7) in 2014. That includes the Bloomdaddy morning show from WWVA in Wheeling, WV, as well as most of Premiere’s national talkers (among them, for now, Rush Limbaugh.)
Pitt radio update
From Eric at PBRTV
2-4-22
David Bloomquist, AKA “Bloomdaddy” announced his departure from iHeart owned WWVA (1170 Wheeling). The show has been carried in Pittsburgh – first via sister station WPGB (104.7) after the departure of Quinn and Rose in 2013. The next year he made the move with the majority of programming when WJAS (1320) switched after Pittsburgh Radio Partners bought the station from Renda Broadcasting.
According to our sources, Bloomdaddy announced that he will be on the air at Cleveland’s WTAM where he will be on in afternoon drive beginning Monday. WTAM is also owned by iHeartMedia.
No word what will be on the air at WWVA come Monday. But the 100-year-old WJAS will be airing “America in the Morning” between 6:00 and 9:00 with “First Light” between 7:00 and 8:00.
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