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EMF Buys WLUP FM in Chicago

anotherguyTN

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I'm surprised this hasn't been brought up here yet:

https://radioinsight.com/headlines/166554/educational-media-foundation-acquires-97-9-wlup-chicago/

There is a lot of discussion of this on the Chicago board, and of course a lot of it is from people who are against it.

I think there's some sweet justice in this. In 1987 the owners of WLUP bought WCFL AM 1000, which had been a CCM format, and started simulcasting the FM station. Now Cumulus has sold WLUP FM to EMF and the format has changed to K-LOVE, and there is talk the existing Chicago K-LOVE station will change to Air 1. Isn't it funny how God works things out even if it's 30 years later? :cool:
 
I don't know that God did or didn't have anything to do with adding or subtracting "devil rock and roll" on 97.9 (is backward masking still a thing?)
WLUP AM wasn't for the most part a simulcast with the FM except for Brandmeier.
 
anotherguy said:
There is a lot of discussion of this on the Chicago board, and of course a lot of it is from people who are against it.
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All through the last sixty or seventy years, there have been protests when stations changed format. The early changes to Top 40 were quite unpopular. Attempted changes of classical to more contemporary formats got FCC intervention for many years.

Changes of Progressive Rock to formatted AOR were complained about. The end of Smooth Jazz got protests, and any station changing to Spanish language programming was met with a chorus of bigots.

What 99.9% of protests have in common is that they did nothing.
 
Mancow will be looking for work. I don't know that he finds a home in Chicago after EMF takes over.
 
DavidEduardo said:


All through the last sixty or seventy years, there have been protests when stations changed format. The early changes to Top 40 were quite unpopular. Attempted changes of classical to more contemporary formats got FCC intervention for many years.

Changes of Progressive Rock to formatted AOR were complained about. The end of Smooth Jazz got protests, and any station changing to Spanish language programming was met with a chorus of bigots.

What 99.9% of protests have in common is that they did nothing.
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Well, tell that to WNCN!
 
semoochie said:
Well, tell that to WNCN!
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WNCN was one of a number of classical stations that had, often for many years, citizen groups blocking a format change.

Some commercial channel classical stations negotiated with non-commercial licensees to take over the format. Others found ways to move the format to smaller signals (suburban stations or rimshots). A few were kept in the format for many, many years.

But attempts to preserve other formats or to pressure advertisers generally were pesky but ineffective.
 
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