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FAQs WHAT HAPPENED TO Q101 ON 101.1 FM? The company that owned WKQX FM (Emmis) sold the radio station to a new company called Merlin Media. Merlin Media never intended to keep Alternative music on the air on 101.1. Since we knew this, we offered to buy “Q101″ from Emmis, before they sold WKQX to Merlin. Emmis and Merlin fired most of the staff from WKQX. We purchased everything except the FCC license and the broadcasting equipment. Merlin bought the FCC license and broadcasting equipment, and paid over $100 million for WKQX, WLUP, and WRXP in New York WHY DID EMMIS SELL WKQX? Emmis used to be a private company. Like many radio companies, they began to grow. They bought more stations and then went public. Like many public companies, they found going public isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Their stations became corporate. They tried to go back to being private. That fell through. In order to go private, or be a profitable public company, they needed to shore up their balance sheet. One way to do this was to sell some stations and make some cash to pay some bills. They decided to sell WKQX, WLUP, and WRXP…
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