WCAP Headline News
980 WCAP SALVATION ARMY RADIOTHON RAISES MORE THAN $64,000!
12th Annual Event on December 15, on 980 WCAP Delivers! (See Pictures..)
980 WCAP TO BROADCAST WCVB-TV NEWSCENTER 5
Hear the audio of WCVB Channel 5 News on 980 WCAP 5-6am, 7am and 5:30-6:30pm for the ride home!
Clark Smidt: New England radio mainstay is adamant about protecting localism
Clark Smidt continues to be a fixture in New England radio. With a successful background in programming stations for others, he founded his own company, Broadcast Ideas, to act as an adviser for station owners. And with a recent transaction, he has re-entered radio ownership. Read more...
Lowell's WCAP expands voice
There's a new voice in Merrimack Valley. After months of planning, a group of investors led by longtime Boston radio veteran Clark Smidt took over Lowell's WCAP-AM (980) last week. By Monday, Smidt, whose Merrimack Valley Radio LLC purchased the station for approximately $2.6 million, had already instituted some changes, all in keeping with the master plan to make the 5,000-watt station, in his words, "inclusionary of the entire Merrimack Valley." Read more...
Even after station sale, WCAP will remain the talk of Lowell
The more things change, the more they stay the same -- at least at WCAP-AM (980). For the first time in the Lowell station's 56-year history, it is being sold and will be run by someone other than the founding Cohen family. But the new owner, a seasoned Boston-area radio veteran, has pledged to continue the station's distinctive local talk format, and to beef up community content as well as the quality of the 5,000-watt station's transmission..
"After 56 years, it's about time, isn't it?" asks Maurice Cohen, who founded WCAP in 1951 with his brothers, Ike and Ted, both now deceased. Announced by Cohen on air Monday morning, the sale (for more than $2.5 million) will transfer the station to a group of investors known as Merrimack Valley Radio LLC, led by Andover-based radio consultant Clark Smidt. If no problems arise, the Federal Communications Commission should approve the sale by October. Read more...