Friday, July 27, 2018

Is the Loop coming back?

From this morning's Robert Feder column...

Could The Loop be coming back to Chicago? Lance Venta’s Radio Insight reports a domain registration for “1051TheLoop.com,” which could point to a possible deal here between Univision Radio and Cumulus Media. Univision owns regional Mexican WOJO 105.1-FM, and Cumulus controls the call letters and intellectual property of WLUP, which ceased broadcasting in March when its home at 97.9-FM was sold to Educational Media Foundation. One scenario has WOJO’s highly rated “Que Buena 105.1” shifting to another station owned by Univision. It’s all speculation at this point, but as Radio Insight notes: “There is lots of smoke surrounding t