WCIN Sold

WCIN-AM has been sold. Robert Cox of St. Louis, the receiver appointed over J4 Broadcasting assets by a Cincinnati federal court last year, has sold the station to American Broadcasting LLC, a Denver-based private equity firm.

The station had been in receivership for 17 months when Cox took over last May and changed the format to smooth jazz.

Founded in 1953, WCIN-AM was the city's heritage African-American station until WDBZ-AM (1230, The Buzz) signed on in 2000.

Here's the listing from Radio & Records:

WCIN-AM/Cincinnati
PRICE: Undisclosed
TERMS: Terms unavailable
BUYER: American Broadcasting LLC, headed by President Randall Dietrich. It owns no other stations. This represents its entry into this market.
SELLER: J4 Broadcasting Company Incorporated, headed by Successor Receiver Robert Cox. FREQUENCY: 1480 kHz
POWER: 5kw day/500 watts night
FORMAT: smooth jazz
COMMENT: Robert L. Cox, Successor Receiver for the assets of J4 Broadcasting Company Inc's WCIN-AM/Cincinnati, Ohio, to American Broadcasting for an undisclosed price.

http://www.radioandrecords.com/RRWebSite/NewsStoryPage.aspx?ContentID=LBIf1cig%2B1s%3D&

Can you help my list past WCIN employees and formats? (Remember when it briefly went all classical music under former Channel 5 anchor Ken McDowell in the late 1980s?)

For starters:
Lincoln Ware
Sports anchor Bill Meredith
Everett Cork
Fredd E. Redd
Maxcine Hardwick
Jazzman Wilbert Longmire