Well, what I thought to be my worst fear came true, Beacon Broadcasting was split up and sold, and not even to the highest bidder. It’s a funny thing, you think that a company owner would try to sell and make some sort of a profit, but, I guess that’s what happens when you are operating in panic mode. I ended up walking away from the organization with my dignity in tact, and stayed unemployed for about 5 months. I took a 911 Officer class and got a job dispatching for the Warren City P.D, a lot different from the radio thing but it is a great gig.
In the mean time, several things have happened with the radio stations that were sold, 1570am and 1540am were sold to Whiplash Radio out of Dayton, who has been successful in operating a LPFM in that city, formats have changed a couple times since the take over on 1570 from Fox Sports, to Classic Hits, and will be playing Adult Standards soon to fill a big gap left by AM600 who is now all talk. 1540am will continue to do their great sounding Classic Country format, "The Farm". WEXC 107.1fm, 940am and 1470am were sold to K-Love, a completely Christian radio station that obviously has No Love for the former staff as they ousted everyone by saying, “I’ll see you in Heaven”, nice, can you say "what would Jesus do?"
Anyway, life goes on and we survive, I have been doing some voice over and guitar work for various people, including the new owner of 1540 and 1570. As I always say… Keep Moving Forward
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