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Mackinaw City FM has just been sold

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Mackinaw City FM has just been sold

Post by MWmetalhead » Fri Jun 02, 2023 9:39 am

94.5 WYPV reportedly has been sold to Billy Sours (who just sold WBZV in the Hillsdale - Adrian area) for $140,000.

He has applied to change calls to either WBSX or WSBX; I cannot recall which.

I believe this station was previously relaying Q100 from Grayling.

It is possible this station will return to the air with a rock format of some kind, which frankly would make no sense to me at all. The area already has three classic rock stations (WSUE in the Soo flipped back to classic rock recently) plus an active rock station.

I'm unaware of any obvious format void in the region, other than perhaps Sports (good luck making money with that format on a standalone FM with limited population reach). I do not believe there is a Hot AC formatted station up that way, but that format was tried years ago on 94.5 and evidently didn't fare too well (remember Star 94.5?).



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Re: Mackinaw City FM has just been sold

Post by Ben Zonia » Fri Jun 02, 2023 12:07 pm

WSBX

https://www.fccdata.org/?facid=&call=WY ... d=&lang=en

Links are near the bottom right of the page.


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Re: Mackinaw City FM has just been sold

Post by organman95 » Fri Jun 02, 2023 9:11 pm

MWmetalhead wrote:
Fri Jun 02, 2023 9:39 am
94.5 WYPV reportedly has been sold to Billy Sours (who just sold WBZV in the Hillsdale - Adrian area) for $140,000.

He has applied to change calls to either WBSX or WSBX; I cannot recall which.

I believe this station was previously relaying Q100 from Grayling.

It is possible this station will return to the air with a rock format of some kind, which frankly would make no sense to me at all. The area already has three classic rock stations (WSUE in the Soo flipped back to classic rock recently) plus an active rock station.

I'm unaware of any obvious format void in the region, other than perhaps Sports (good luck making money with that format on a standalone FM with limited population reach). I do not believe there is a Hot AC formatted station up that way, but that format was tried years ago on 94.5 and evidently didn't fare too well (remember Star 94.5?).
I always thought WLXT 96.3 was Hot AC?



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Re: Mackinaw City FM has just been sold

Post by MWmetalhead » Sat Jun 03, 2023 7:13 am

Lite 96 is mainstream adult contemporary and is very library / gold driven.



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Re: Mackinaw City FM has just been sold

Post by Colonel Flagg » Sat Jun 03, 2023 7:01 pm

WSBX, now why is that familiar...

Ah, yes. The same call letters used by the legendary Woody Nelson, on the daytime AM he torpedoed in southwest Georgia. :lol

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Re: Mackinaw City FM has just been sold

Post by MWmetalhead » Sat Jun 03, 2023 8:04 pm

Holy crap - you're right.



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Re: Mackinaw City FM has just been sold

Post by TC Talks » Sat Jun 03, 2023 9:51 pm

Woody... Is he in prison these days?


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Re: Mackinaw City FM has just been sold

Post by EdWalker » Mon Jun 05, 2023 3:59 pm

TC Talks wrote:
Sat Jun 03, 2023 9:51 pm
Woody... Is he in prison these days?
Woody (aka Steven Blood) appears to still be around: https://www.facebook.com/steven.blood.9889/



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Re: Mackinaw City FM has just been sold

Post by Colonel Flagg » Mon Jun 05, 2023 5:18 pm

EdWalker wrote:
Mon Jun 05, 2023 3:59 pm
TC Talks wrote:
Sat Jun 03, 2023 9:51 pm
Woody... Is he in prison these days?
Woody (aka Steven Blood) appears to still be around: https://www.facebook.com/steven.blood.9889/
Probably hiding from Sammy Hagar and Tommy Tutone, at least :rollin


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