Do you mean 94.7 out of Newark? Looked up on Wikipedia
and saw the following info:
>>On January 6, 2012, Family Stations applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to change the license of WFME from noncommercial to commercial. This move followed the sales by Family Radio of stations in the Philadelphia (WKDN) and Washington-Baltimore (WFSI, now WLZL) markets, and quickly prompted conjecture from radio industry monitors that WFME would be sold next.] The application was approved on February 7, 2012.
WFME’s programming was also heard on two translator stations: W213AC (90.5 FM) in Hyde Park, New York; and W247AE (97.3 FM) in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. As a result of the license status change, the translators can no longer legally rebroadcast WFME’s broadcast signal and as a result both translator stations are currently silent of February 2012.
Oh: and this radio-info.com thread said WFME is being
sold to...ESPN
http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=209602.20
more this time from Radio Ink
>>Does Randy Have A Conservative Trifecta Plan For Philadelphia?
4-10-2012
>>Much is being speculated about what Randy Michaels plans to do at WKDN-FM (106.9) in Philadelphia, especially after the announcement that CBS owned WPHT-AM lost Rush Limbaugh. Most syndicated agreements with affiliates include a 90-day opt-out and it appears that’s what happened at WPHT. The CBS Corporate office provided Radio Ink with this statement last night, “Premiere recently notified WPHT they will be syndicating Rush Limbaugh on a new station in Philadelphia. As a result, we are pleased to be able to now showcase Michael, who is a well-known and acclaimed broadcaster in Philadelphia, in this new time period.” When Smerconish is moved to the new time period is “to be determined.”
>>Smerconish was already airing on WPHT after Rush’s program. It’s also important to note that both Sean Hannity and Glen Beck are not on in Philadelphia. Both left the market in late 2010. A likely scenario for WKDN-FM, following a local morning show, could be for Michaels to land the conservative trifecta of Limbaugh, Hannity and Beck on his Philly FM. The move puts Limbaugh on an FM signal in Philadelphia which, little by little, is where a lot of news and talk stations are migrating to try to draw in the younger demos. This also guarantees the show would not be bumped by any Philadelphia Phillies games.
Michaels would only say to us last night that more details about the station would be coming “soon.”
http://www.radioink.com/Article.asp?id=2431998&spid=24698
Thanks! Yes, WFME was the station I was thinking of.
Kinda strange but even though Harold Camping used to bash Catholics on occasion, I still enjoyed listening to the Open Forum. Too bad he let hubris get to him.
So it looks like it’s going sports. WABC will continue to rule the AM airwaves. What’s nice is that WABC is broadcast on FM95.5 HD3 so the signal is nice and clear in the suburbs. But it’s on a nearly 5 minute delay.