Sovereign Buys 11 U.P. Michigan Radio Stations

Who's Buying What

SOVEREIGN COMMUNICATIONS is buying eleven stations from NORTHERN STAR BROADCASTING on MICHIGAN's UPPER PENINSULA, reports the SAULT STE. MARIE EVENING NEWS.

The deal, described as a "multi-million dollar" transation by the paper, includes Top 40 WYSS (YES! FM), Country WMKD (BIG COUNTRY 105.5), and Talk WKNW-A/SAULT STE. MARIE; Rock WUPK (THE BEAR), Talk WDMJ-WIAN, Oldies WNGE (Oldies 99.5) and Country WJPD/MARQUETTE-ISHPEMING; AC WZNL (Z94.3)/NORWAY, MI; and Rock WIMK (THE BEAR) and Talk WMIQ-A/IRON MOUNTAIN, MI. SOVEREIGN presently owns AC-Sports WSOO-A, Classic Country WNBY-A, Oldies WNBY-F (OLDIES 93), and Rock WSUE (ROCK 101)/SAULT STE, MARIE.

SOONEWS.CA reports that several personalities have exited the cluster with the sale, including JASON MAPES, MELISSA KRAHNKE, PAUL "JUNIOR" VANWAGONER, and SCOTT NASON. 

Two Noncommercial New Mexico FMs Change Hands

CALVARY CHAPEL OF COSTA MESA, INC. is selling silent noncommercial KPKJ/MENTMORE, NM (GALLUP) and noncommercial Religion KKCJ/CANNON AIR FORCE BASE, NM (CLOVIS-PORTALES) to CALVARY CHAPEL OF ALBUQUERQUE, INC. for $200,000.

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