Buckley Broadcasting
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| Industry | Entertainment |
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| Headquarters | Greenwich, CT |
| Products | radio |
| Website | www.buckleyradio.com |
Buckley Broadcasting (or Buckley Radio) was an American broadcasting company that previously held radio stations in the states of New York, Rhode Island, California and Connecticut.
Buckley Broadcasting Radio was founded in 1954 as Buckley-Jaeger Broadcasting. Richard D. Buckley Sr and John Jaeger were the original founding partners. It began as an independently owned radio broadcasting company; WNEW in New York City was the station's first acquisition, and the company flipped that station to Metromedia in 1955. In 1957, the station bought its first long-term asset, WHIM in Providence, Rhode Island. In 1959, it bought WDRC in Hartford, Connecticut, and soon after launched its flagship station WDRC-FM.
Following the death of his father in 1972, Richard D. Buckley Jr. became the president and chairman of the company, a position he held until his death in 2011. Buckley acquired WOR in New York City in 1989. Buckley began divesting its stations shortly before Buckley Jr.'s death. WSEN & WSEN-FM and WFBL in Syracuse, New York were divested to local owners in 2008. WOR was sold to Clear Channel Communications in 2012.WDRC & WDRC-FM were sold in early 2014 to Connoisseur Media of Bloomfield. Stations KSEQ in Fresno and KWAV in Monterey were also sold sooner after that year, and its stations in Bakersfield, California (KLLY, KKBB and KNZR) and Merced, California (KUBB/KHTN) were sold to Alpha Media in October 2014.
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