Family Stations will suspend operations of 1560 WFME New York on Friday, February 12.
The operator of the Christian Preaching “Family Radio” network sold the five acre tower site of WFME to logistics real estate operator Prologis in November 2020 for $51 million.
The station is running occasional sweepers explaining that 1560 will be leaving the air, but that their programming will soon reappear in the market on a new, not named signal. In interim Family Radio is directing listeners to use their digital platforms or either one of their two suburban signals 89.9 WFRS Smithtown on Long Island or 106.3 WFME-FM Mount Kisco in northern Westchester County.
Family Stations acquired 1560 and the tower land from Radio Disney in 2015 for $12.9 million to return their programming to the market following the 2013 sale of 94.7 WFME Newark NJ to Cumulus for $40 million and 106.3 Mount Kisco NY. Disney had purchased the station in 2007 from The New York Times Company for $40 million after leasing the signal for nine years.
