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Question about Hispanic Station ownership

MarcB

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We all know the 3 major groups when it comes to ownership of Hispanic Radio stations - Univision, Entravision, and SBS. What about independent owners? Are there smaller independent companies that own a lot of Hispanic stations?

Off the top of my head I know there is Gois Broadcasting. Now based in Worcester, Mass they own 5 Hispanic formatted stations plus a sixth that is not Hispanic Formatted.

Gois owns:

WORC 1310/106.1 Worcester
WAMG 890/94.9 Boston
WLLH 1400/95.1 Lawrence
WLAT 910/101.7 Hartford
WNEZ 1230/105.3 Hartford Spanish Variety/Spanish Religion (Spanish Religion airs after 10PM)
WKND 1480/97.5 Windsor, CT (R&B Hits, R&B Oldies, African American Talk, Soul, Gospel, and Reggae)

They started with one station - Popular 1490 WACM (Spanish Variety) in West Springfield, Mass. They added Spanish Tropical Power 1270 WSPR in Springfield. They sold them in 2004 and bought WORC and launched Spanish Tropical POWER 1310 (now La Mega). Then they bought WAMG/WLLH and relaunched La Mega. (I forgot who they bought them from but WAMG/WLLH were run as ESPN Boston). Then they bought WLAT/WNEZ. The last station they bought was WKND.

In 2015 DMG then owner of WACM/WSPR decided they couldn't make any money with two stations targeting the Hispanic Audience in the Springfield market and flipped WACM (and their Hartford simulcast partner WXCT) to Rock & Roll Oldies. DMG sold all their New England Stations to Full Power Radio. Full Power Radio took over in November 2015 and assumed ownership in January 2016. That Spring 1490 went to Spanish CHR with a new FM translator. 1270 (after a month of running an announcement redirecting listeners to 104.5 FM (and 1490 AM) picked up the Oldies format. Some time in 2017 Full Power Radio ended local programming on 104.5/1490 and simulcast it with their Bomba-FM network of Spanish CHR Translators (based at WMRQ 104.1 HD2) in Hartford.
 
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Oklahoma has several. There's one that owns KZUE 1460 (the state's first full-time Spanish-language station) outside of Oklahoma City. It used to own KXTD 1530 in Tulsa as well, though it sold it to another company that kept the regional Mexican format. The company that bought KXTD bought several other rimshot FM's around Tulsa.

There's a company that started with KSEC 95.7 in Bentonville, AR and has since expanded to Little Rock and Tulsa.

Tulsa's Las Americas market bought a radio station from Disney and has since expanded into Arkansas while Oklahoma's Tyler Media, which specializes in English-laanguage programming, has a nice side business targeting the state's Spanish dominant individuals. It started with a rimshot station in Chickasha, OK that aired Z-Spanish programming and has since moved to a full-market station. Tyler also owns the Univision affiliates in Tulsa and OKC and has since launched a clone of its OKC regional Mexican station in Tulsa.

Norsan, which I believe is out of North Carolina owns a handful of Spanish-language stations in the Carolinas and Tennessee. Davis Broadcasting, which I'm thinking is African American owned, also has a nice side business in the Hispanic market with stations around Atlanta.
 
We all know the 3 major groups when it comes to ownership of Hispanic Radio stations - Univision, Entravision, and SBS. What about independent owners? Are there smaller independent companies that own a lot of Hispanic stations?

Amador Bustos revived Bustos Media has quite a little group in the Northwest.

Liberman Broadcasting is in LA, the IE, Houston and Dallas with multiple radio properties.

Grupo Radio Centro is in El Paso and LA.

Lazer Broadcasting is in 6 or so markets in CA, from Oxnard and the IE to San Jose/Monterey.

The broadcast organization of the United Farmworkers has stations in Las Vegas, PHX, Bakersfield and several places in the San Joaquin Valley of CA.

There are quite a number of 2 and 3 station owners across the country.
 
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