He’s an award-winning Country broadcaster who helped launch the CMT network in Canada and today is the morning co-host of KUZZ-AM & FM in Bakersfield, the legendary Country station founded by Buck Owens.
One month ago, he was poised to become a licensee. Now, Cliff Dumas is ready to grow his nascent radio broadcasting company even more, thanks to a Michigan deal consummated last week.
Gerald J. Hackman and his Wisconsin-based J & J BROADCASTING INC. have agreed to spin the following stations to BTC USA Holdings Management Inc.
That’s the Dumas-led broadcast licensee which sees the Bryan Woodruff-led Local First Media Group, based in Calgary, take a 20% foreign ownership stake in the operation. Dumas, through his Broadcast 2 Podcast Inc. enterprise, holds the remaining 80% equity interest in BTC USA.
Calgary-based Creator Capital Corp. and Scarborough, Ontario-headquartered Bayfield Harbour Holdings Inc. are also investors in BTC USA.
A $1.3 million purchase price has been agreed to for the stations:
A $19,000 escrow deposit is being held by broker of record Clifton Gardiner & Company.
Where is Ironwood, Michigan? Just east of Montreal … the town in the Upper Northeast corner of Wisconsin, not the Quebec metropolis. It’s a city to the south of Lake Superior and the city of Thunder Bay, Ontario, which Dumas may be familiar with.
Dumas rose to fame at Country CHAM-AM in Hamilton, Ont., and later was part of a team that briefly brought Country to the 92.5 MHz facility in Toronto owned by Rogers Sports & Media. His voice is heard on independent CHCH-TV, seen across Ontario.
Meanwhile, the Hancock stations serve Houghton, Mich., also within proximity of Thunder Bay, Ont. The Ontonagon station covers an area between Ironwood and Houghton.
