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Just before 2 p.m., “Desperado” hit WPLJ’s airwaves, with Fink introducing it by saying, “This is ‘Desperado’ for the desperate trucker.” When Rivera, still barricaded in Manne’s office, heard the first few lines — “Desperado, why don’t you come to your senses? You been out riding fences for so long now” — he burst into tears. Rivera called police to the door and said, “I’m going to give you the gun.” He handed Manne his pistol and said, “You can go now.” She was wheeled out of the building on a stretcher and taken to a hospital for observation.

Continuing to sell off stations to reduce debt, Cumulus Media has inked a deal to hand over talk WABC New York (770) to Red Apple Media for $12.5 million in cash. Red Apple is headed by chairman John Catsimatidis, who hosts the syndicated “Cats Roundtable Radio Show.” Calling the purchase the “next step in building a new broadcasting business,” Catsimatidis says he plans to “retain the excellent staff and talent working at the station now.” The sale leaves Cumulus with only one station in the New York market—“Radio 103.9” WNBM, an urban AC licensed to Bronxville, NY. Cumulus earlier sold...