AM 740 sold to MZ
Erie-Meadville: News from across the pond in Toronto (courtesy of Milkmanunlimited.com) reports that Standards / Oldies station CHWO AM 740 has been sold to "MZ Media" Inc for 7.3 million (Canadian). The station had been owned by Michael Caine of "Prime Time Radio, Inc." The station was owned by the CBC before that with the call sign CBL before the CBC decided to move CBL to the FM dial in the Greater Toronto Area. Meanwhile, Caine saw the 50,000 watt blowtorch as a way to dramatically extend his station's coverage area from the 5,000 watt station it was on. Thus, AM 740 made it's debut in January of 2001, which was good news for those in several areas without a nostalgia based station. (This would later include Erie after WRIE 1260 flipped to ESPN sports.) The format on AM 740 is expected to remain intact.Readers’ Forum
AM 740 had better keep its current format. I can pick up the station 24/7 on my car radio, even in Indiana County, where I reside. And with WJAS having replaced Mike McGann with, eccch, John Tesh, I find myself listening to CHWO more often in the daytime.
I still think Erie’s AM 1260 dumping Music of Your Life was major mistake. But I’m not Erie radio management — I don’t pretend to know it all and presume all Erie listeners want to hear is country and regurgitated AC/DC crap.
Rick - April 03, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Even though I live in Ohio [around the Akron area] I can pick up AM740 clear as a bell during the night and every once in a while during the daytime. Matter of fact I picked it up in Tennessee and listened to it all the way home to Ohio as I drove through the night.
YEKIMI - April 03, 2008 at 11:59 pm