{"id":9337,"date":"2015-11-09T06:00:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=9337"},"modified":"2015-11-09T06:07:14","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T12:07:14","slug":"newsweb-surrenders-radio-station-license","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/11\/09\/newsweb-surrenders-radio-station-license\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsweb surrenders station license"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Newsweb<\/a>

<\/a> Newsweb Radio<\/p><\/div>\n

Fred Eychaner\u2019s Newsweb Radio<\/a> is voluntarily giving back the license of one of its eight Chicago area radio stations to the Federal Communications Commission.<\/p>\n

WCFJ AM 1470, a time-brokered ethnic and foreign-language station licensed to south suburban Chicago Heights, ceased broadcasting Saturday, according to Charley Gross, president of Newsweb Radio.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are turning in the FCC license,\u201d Gross said. \u201cThe station was not profitable.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 1,000-watt daytime station\u2019s audience was too small to register in Nielsen Audio ratings. Owned by Newsweb Radio since 1998, the station first went on the air in 1963 as WMPP (\u201cWorking [for] More People's Progress\u201d) under Seaway Broadcasting Co. In 1989 Liberty Temple Full Gospel Church acquired the station and changed its call letters to WCFJ (\u201cWinning Chicagoland for Jesus\u201d).<\/p>\n

Newsweb Radio continues to operate seven other stations, including progressive talk WCPT AM 820 and WCPT FM 92.5. <\/a>Others, airing various time-brokered formats, are WNDZ AM 750, WAIT AM 850, WSBC AM 1240, WCPY FM 92.7 and WCPQ FM 99.9.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rest of our stations are good,\u201d Gross said.<\/p>\n

Eychaner, the Chicago media magnate and one of the country\u2019s most generous contributors to liberal candidates and causes, founded Newsweb Corp. in 1971. In 2002 he sold WPWR-Channel 50<\/a> to Rupert Murdoch's Fox Television for $425 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fred Eychaner\u2019s Newsweb Radio is voluntarily giving back the license of one of its eight Chicago area radio stations to the Federal Communications Commission. WCFJ AM 1470, a time-brokered ethnic and foreign-language station licensed to south suburban Chicago Heights, ceased broadcasting Saturday, according to Charley Gross, president of Newsweb Radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9337"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9340,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9337\/revisions\/9340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}