NorthEast Radio Watch 3/3: Finger Lakes Shake-up

[Scott D Fybush <fybush@world.std.com>]

*We begin this week in NEW YORK's scenic Finger Lakes region, an area
we don't usually talk about much in this column for the simple reason
that radio there tends to just chug along without much change or
disruption -- until now.

George Souhan, the 70 year old owner of Seneca Falls' WSFW (1110) and
WSFW-FM (99.3), announced last week that he's selling the stations
that his family has owned (except for an 8 year interregnum) since
they signed on the air decades ago.

Here's how the deal shakes out: Souhan will sell the stations to
Family Life Ministries of Bath, which operates an extensive noncomm
network of religious FMs across upstate New York and northern
Pennsylvania.  Family Life will then trade WSFW AM/FM to George
Kimble's Radio Group for Kimble's WLLW (93.7 Clyde), which serves the
eastern Finger Lakes from studios in Auburn.