The Andrade family-run operation known as The Voice Radio Network has become an established player across the Delmarva Peninsula, with stations serving Salisbury-Ocean City, Md., and an FM translator serving Southern New Jersey added earlier this year.
Now, the licensee seeks to add an AM in the Garden State to its asset portfolio.
The Voice has agreed to acquire WOCQ-AM 1510 in Salem, N.J., formerly WXCY-AM. It is a Class D daytime-only operation with a 4-tower array just east of the Delaware River, just to the southeast of Wilmington, Del. It must power down at night to protect WLAC-AM in Nashville.
The seller is the Lynn Deppen-managed Forever Media, which has already allowed The Voice to operate the AM via a Time Brokerage Agreement, which went to effect on October 5. At that time, the station became the originating station of Spanish-language “Maxima 104.1,” heard on FM translator W281CM.
A $250,000 purchase price has been agreed upon, with no broker or finder associated with the transaction.
The seller’s legal counsel is David Oxenford of Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP.
