WJAS being sold

November 21, 2020 Off By Eric O'Brien

Dealing with other business this week, somehow I missed the RadioInsight report that WJAS (1320) is being sold to the entity known as St. Barnabas Broadcasting (yes… the nursing home organization) for $2.05 Million.

Frank Iorio’s Pittsburgh Radio Partners has owned the station since 2014 and put its FM translator (W256DE 99.1) on over the last few years. Before that it had been owned by Renda Broadcasting since 1985 as a nostalgic/standards station.

Sure enough, the application was filed earlier in the week and the sale is pending FCC approval. I don’t see why it wouldn’t happen, but there’s an owner one never thought of!

The sale will be a good deal for Iorio who paid $1 million for it when Renda sold it in 2014. The station’s main transmitter site remains on Renda (Springhill Group) property near Shuman Center. The lengthy sales agreement seems to indicate that the sale is just that and the format and staff will remain in place.