Month: September 2025

United States

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Station Sales Week 9/12
Tom and Desire Hoyt’s WCJW LLC acquires Lloyd Lane Inc.’s Country “CJ Country” 1140 WCJW Warsaw NY and its network of six translators covering the area between Buffalo and Rochester: 100.9 W265DQ Alden, 100.9 W265BX Geneseo, 103.7 W279BO Warsaw, 104.3 W282BQ Avon, 105.5 W288BZ Batavia, and 104.9 W285EZ Arcade for $750,000. The Hoyt’s also own Christian Preaching “Pure Radio” 1600 WZZW Milton WV which also airs on translators in Louisville KY and Evansville IN.

Melba McCollum sells Christian “Crossroads” 1450 KLMX/104.5 K283CV and Country/Classic Rock “97.5 The Bear” KLMX-FM Clayton NM to David Daney Jr. and Anna Haisten’s Rabbit Ear Media & Print for $264,000. The buyers are husband and wife who both work at the station with Haisten serving as General Manager and Daney anchoring high school football and basketball broadcasts.
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/308537/station-sales-week-of-9-12/

Lance Venta, Radio Insight (2025-09-12)

Argentina

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After several months of inactivity, Radio Libre (AM 890 kHz) returned to the airwaves, broadcasting its usual programming, which had been available only via streaming since it went off the air.
Apparently, the station has moved its studios, which were located on Avenida Cnel. Ramón L. Falcón 6219 in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, as did its ‘sister’ station LA 810 Radio (810 KHz).
Both stations are operated by the company ‘Aires de Radio S.R.L.’, under the general management of Nelson Ernesto Figueira and Patricia Noemí Calicchio. Radio Libre now announces two new telephone numbers: (11) 3722-9091 and 4314-0965, maintaining its email address: administracion@am890.ar, and its website: www.radio890.ar. We do not yet have confirmation of the current location of its new studios.
(Translated from Spanish)

Argentina en AM y FM Facebook group (2025-09-11)

United States

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After announcing its $465,000 acquisition of Oldies “Fonz AM” 1290 WZTI Greenfield and Country “Froggy MKE” 100.3 W262CJ Milwaukee/107.3 W297BY Franklin WI from Milwaukee Radio Alliance, Civic Media has announced its plans for the stations when it plans to take over via LMA on Wednesday, September 17.
The launches are pending equipment installation and engineering coordination to repair the damaged transmitter that took WZTI silent last month following flood damage.
WZTI and W297BY will begin simulcasting Full Service Oldies 1400 WRJN/99.9 W260CV Racine and 98.1 W251BU Kenosha expanding that station’s coverage into Milwaukee giving the station coverage on AM from Waukegan IL to Sheboygan WI and FM from Kenosha to Oak Creek.
100.3 W262CJ will be transferred to rebroadcast Liberal Talk 540 WAUK Jackson/101.1 W266BR Waukesha to better cover downtown Milwaukee and its eastern suburbs.
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/308467/

Lance Venta, Radio Insight (2025-09-11)

Space Weather

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GIANT BUTTERFLY-SHAPED HOLE IN THE SUN’S ATMOSPHERE:  A 500,000-km wide coronal hole has opened in the sun’s atmosphere, sending a stream of solar wind toward Earth. It could spark G1–G2 geomagnetic storms and auroras around Sept. 14th, enhanced by the Russell-McPherron effect. Full story @ Spaceweather.com.

Ydun Ritz (2025-09-11)

France / Monaco

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Here’s the updated information from Monaco’s AM transmitters.

MONACO MEDIA DIFFUSION (Comm.)
10-12 Quai Antoine 1er, MC-98000 Monaco
+377 97974700  +377 97974707
W: mmd.mc E: contact@mmd.mc
L.P: Pres: Claude Cottalorda.
AM                          kHz    kW    Prgr.
Col de la Madone (France)          1557    40   only use for emergency.
Roumoules (France)          1467  1000   TWR Europe (2115-2300*)
*Arabic, Kabyl Prgs (2115-2300).

Christian Ghibaudo (2025-09-09)

United Kingdom

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“Our next Radio Caroline North broadcast is between 13th – 14th September, live from our radio ship Ross Revenge.
You’ll hear some great music from the 60s to 90s – plus this month’s competition where you could win a quality Panasonic Portable radio courtesy of UK Fasteners Supplier of top quality window fasteners and consumables. (see panel below).
Listen on 648 AM across England, The Netherlands, Belgium and beyond, on 1368 AM in the North/North-West courtesy of our friends at Manx Radio, worldwide online here via our Caroline North Player, on smart speakers and the Radio Caroline app.
We’d love to hear from you during the broadcast via north@radiocaroline.co.uk and remember, it’s the only email address that gets you straight through to our ‘North’ broadcasters.”

Radio Caroline website (2025-09-08)

Canada

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Radio Town – CKNX 920 Wingham ON history dramatised
CKNX 920 KHZ is one of Canada’s oldest and most successful radio stations.

The station is located in the small town of Wingham in western Ontario. In 1926, Doc Cruikshank, proprietor of the town’s radio store, believed he could increase sales of his radios if the town had its own radio station. Up until then, the people had to rely on reception from the US or southern Ontario. So Cruikshank built his own transmitter in his garage and went on the air.

The station’s history is now being dramatized in a play at a summer theatre in the nearby town of Blythe.
https://blythfestival.com/radio-town-the-doc-cruickshank-story/

Doug Brown, London ON via Glenn Hauser, WOR iog ( 2025-09-05)

United Kingdom

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Radio 4 will end its longwave broadcasts by 26 September 2026.
This is according to the BBC.

Various sources via Mike Terry, Longwaveradiolistening iog (2025-09-04)


This date is from Arqiva sources (not BBC), as reported in BDXC Communication (July 2025).
Refers to BBC programmes on 198 – could continue after this date just carrying RTS.
As far as I know, BBC have not confirmed any date yet.

73 Alan Pennington to Longwaveradiolistening iog (2025-09-04)