{"id":788467,"date":"2026-05-11T09:45:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T09:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/788467\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T09:45:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T09:45:17","slug":"red-apple-media-expands-beyond-nyc-with-massachusetts-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/788467\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Apple Media Expands Beyond NYC With Massachusetts Buy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Red-Apple-Media.png\"   alt=\"Red Apple Media\" title=\"Red Apple Media\"\/>            <\/p>\n<p>John Catsimatidis\u2019s Red Apple Media is officially buying into New England. An asset purchase agreement filed with the FCC on May 7 shows the company acquiring Worcester, MA, talk station WCRN-AM 830 from Carter Broadcasting Corp. for $1.45 million.<\/p>\n<p>WCRN is a Class B AM with a directional 50,000-watt signal covering eastern Massachusetts, northern Rhode Island, and southern New Hampshire. Its current lineup includes a simulcast of Boston 25 Morning News from Cox Media Group\u2019s WFXT-TV, alongside locally produced programming.<\/p>\n<p>The deal marks Red Apple\u2019s first signal outside the New York metro. Since acquiring WABC in 2020, the company has built a cluster of simulcasters and regional signals, including WLIR-FM in Hampton Bays, WRCR-AM in Rockland County, and WLID-AM in Patchogue with two FM translators, all aimed at extending WABC programming across the Northeast.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2025, Catsimatidis said the company was <a href=\"https:\/\/radioink.com\/2025\/07\/18\/wabcs-catsimatidis-were-going-to-be-buying-a-lot-of-stations\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">scouting acquisitions<\/a> across the region and beyond, with the goal of syndicating WABC content across a growing station portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>The WCRN deal was originally finalized in mid-November but was not made public until its upload to the Commission\u2019s License Management System. A March 2 amendment adjusted the deposit terms, raising it from 5% to 10% of the purchase price. The transaction was broker-free.<\/p>\n<p>A Local Marketing Agreement is already in place, giving Red Apple operational control of WCRN ahead of an anticipated closing.<\/p>\n<p>With reporting by Adam Jacobson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Catsimatidis\u2019s Red Apple Media is officially buying into New England. An asset purchase agreement filed with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":788468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-788467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116555306152294434","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}