WDTW is an AM radio station in suburban Detroit (Dearborn).<\/p>\n
It is owned by Clear Channel and currently carries the so-called “Progressive” talk format – only recently did it add back a local morning show.<\/p>\n
Being Year End, Clear Channel apparently has concluded there is no hope for the station and “donating” it to the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council for a tax writeoff is better than anything else they could do – and it earns them brownie points at the FCC. In the similar stations I’m aware of, the station equipment needed massive repairs that no rational person would do – when the MMTC gets the station to “promote diversity”, they’ve turned around an “flipped” the license and sold the license (but not the station) to someone else. Sometimes a station tower is built on an old industrial site with “issues” about past misuse of the land that would be extremely expensive to clean up.<\/p>\n
So kiss one more “progressive” AM station goodbye. In theory, the MMTC might continue to operate it – but I doubt it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WDTW is an AM radio station in suburban Detroit (Dearborn). It is owned by Clear Channel and currently carries the so-called “Progressive” talk format – only recently did it add back a local morning show. Being Year End, Clear Channel … Continue reading