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The Essentials

Corporate Personnel

Chairman/CEO: Bob Pittman
President/COO/CFO: Richard J. Bressler

Stations Owned

WDFM-FM
(Purchsed by then-Jacor from Wolfe Communications, Inc. in December 1998 for $3.95 million. The sale includes WDFM-1 and WDFM-LP [Channel 19], both of which are now silent.)
WDKS
(Purchased from Newburgh Broadcasting Corp. in December 2000 for $7 million.)
(Sold to Regent Communications, Inc. in January 2004. The deal completed an exchange of four Regent-owned Duluth, Minnesota radio stations and $2.7 million cash to Clear Channel for the five Evansville stations.)
WFBQ
(Purchased from AM/FM)
WGBF(AM)
(Sold to Regent Communications, Inc. in January 2004. The deal completed an exchange of four Regent-owned Duluth, Minnesota radio stations and $2.7 million cash to Clear Channel for the five Evansville stations.)
WGBF-FM
(Sold to Regent Communications, Inc. in January 2004. The deal completed an exchange of four Regent-owned Duluth, Minnesota radio stations and $2.7 million cash to Clear Channel for the five Evansville stations.)
WNDE(AM)
WNDH
(Purchased from Maumee Valley Broadcasting in October 1999 for $4.25 million. Purchased included sister stations WONW and WZOM)
WNRW, Salem, Kentucky (formerly licensed to Salem, Indiana, and we talk about that here)
WONW
(Purchased from Maumee Valley Broadcasting in October 1999 for $4.25 million. Purchased included sister stations WNDH and WZOM)
WQMF
WRZX
WTFX (nee WYBL)
WTRI
(Sold to Regent Communications, Inc. in January 2004. The deal completed an exchange of four Regent-owned Duluth, Minnesota radio stations and $2.7 million cash to Clear Channel for the five Evansville stations.)
WUBG (nee WRDZ-FM)
(Purchased in May 2015 for $1.95 million, including KWDZ in Salt Lake City, Utah) from Radio Disney Group, LLC)
WYNG
(Sold to Regent Communications, Inc. in January 2004. The deal completed an exchange of four Regent-owned Duluth, Minnesota radio stations and $2.7 million cash to Clear Channel for the five Evansville stations.)
WZKF (nee WQSH and WZTR)
WZOM
(Purchased from Maumee Valley Broadcasting in October 1999 for $4.25 million. Purchased included sister stations WNDH and WONW)

Translators Owned

W242BM
(Sold in July 2007 for $4000 to Friends of Christian Radio, Inc.)
W248AW
(Purchased in February 2015 for $275,000 from Educational Media Foundation)
W298BJ-CP
(CP sold in July 2015 for $100,000 to Pathfinder Communications Corp.)

For Further Reading...

"Changing Hands" Broadcasting and Cable. 125, no. 163 (1995): Page 48.
"Transactions" Radio & Records no. 1076 (6 January 1995): Page 6.
Bachman, Katy. "Radio's Big Round-Up." MediaWeek. 4 September 2000. Pg. 8, 10.
Rathbun, Elizabeth A. "It's Clear he's still a buyer." Broadcasting & Cable. 130, no. 40 (2000: 7.