Backyard Broadcasting
Backyard Broadcastingwas a radio broadcasting company that primarily owned radio stations in medium-sized, small and rural markets in the United States. The company was owned by the private equity firmsBoston Ventures ManagementandPacific Corporate Groupand was headed by Barry Drake, the former head ofSinclair Broadcast Groupand later trustee of theAloha Station TrustandOcean Station Trustto be divested byiHeartMedia.[1]Backyard Broadcasting, founded in 2002 from the remains of the earlierSabre Communications,is based inJacksonville, Florida:
Backyard Broadcasting began divesting its properties in the early 2010s. The company sold its radio stations in Sioux Falls South Dakota to Midwest Communications in November 2012. In April 2013, it was announced that newly formedWoof Boom Radiowas purchasing the Indiana stations.Woof Boom Radiois a pun onWFBM (AM)/WFBM-FM/WFBM-TV,long-time Indianapolis stations that Woof Boom Radio founder Jerry “J” Chapman started at, and his father managed for three decades.[2][3]Shortly thereafter,Community Broadcasters, LLCannounced it would buy the company's assets in theSouthern TierofNew York(eventually spinning those stations off to Seven Mountains Media in 2019),[4]leaving the company with only one station cluster inWilliamsport, Pennsylvania.The Williamsport cluster was sold to Daniel Farr, then to Van A. Michael in 2019, both of whom have used variants of the Backyard Broadcasting name.[5]
References
[edit]- ^"iHeartMedia Moves Divestiture Trusts To New Trustee; Adds Two Stations".October 29, 2018.
- ^http:// insideindianabusiness /newsitem.asp?ID=59311.
{{cite web}}:Missing or empty|title=(help)[permanent dead link] - ^"Woof Boom Radio Acquires Backyard's Muncie Stations".RadioInsight.9 May 2013.Retrieved26 April2020.
- ^Jacobson, Adam (January 9, 2019)."Mittman, Leven Agree To Exit Twin Tiers | Radio & Television Business Report".
- ^"Prices Disclosed For WEEU/Reading, PA, Backyard/Williamsport, PA Deals".All Access.