On April 26, 2012, The Walt Disney Company and the company founded by Jeff Smulyan, Emmis Communications, agreed to a 12-year-lease of a radio station that over the years had been known to New Yorkers as “98.7 KISS FM,” “99X,” and “WOR-FM.”
That agreement, which has been profitable for Emmis and in December 2021 was assumed by Craig Karmazin’s Good Karma Brands, is nearing its end. A National Football League team’s shift to a new radio broadcast partner has renewed questions as to what is WEPN-FM’s next chapter.
