Traverse City's Radio Airwaves Crackle With Change
By Craig Manning | Jan. 29, 2020
Legal battles, technical difficulties, mergers and acquisitions: just a few of the upheavals playing out in the world of northern Michigan radio, where huge changes are underway on the airwaves.
In October, Traverse City’s WLDR-FM 101.9 went silent due to the collapse of a local management agreement (LMA) between owner Roy Henderson and the Grayling-based Blarney Stone Broadcasting. Blarney Stone had taken over operations of 101.9 and Henderson’s other northern Michigan radio stations in the fall of 2018. The other stations that were a part of the agreement, including entities broadcasting from Beulah and Frankfort, also went silent.
“We had an agreement for Blarney Stone to program, operate, and monetize ...
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