Regional Media-Virden Broadcasting

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Regional Media-Virden Broadcasting headquartered in Davenport, Iowa is private owner of radio stations in the Midwest.

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The company traces it founding to Randal J. Miller who at the age of 16 in 1971 started a 100 milliwatt transmitter station with a 300-foot range from his parents house in rural Shelbyville, Illinois. In 1982 he launched 3,000 watt easy listening music station WRVI with a range of 25 miles in Virden, Illinois. [1] He sold the station in 1992 and acquired other small market stations in Illinois and sold the then Taylorville, Illinois based Virden Broadcasting to Fletcher M. Ford in 2013 who moved the headquarters to Davenport. [2] Ford of Blue Grass, Iowa at the time was sales manager of Virden's Kewanee radio stations. [3]

The Virden name frequently has been clipped to just Regional Media since Ford's acquisition. In December 2021, the company expanded outside of Illinois radio station base with the acquisition of KVVL and KNIM in Maryville, Missouri. [4] The company's web reginonalmedia.info

Prestige Communications

Prestige Communications was a broadcast radio station group in Macomb, Illinois. It operated six stations in west-central Illinois owned by the husband-wife team of Bruce T. Foster and Nancy L. Foster. All six stations were sold to Virden Broadcasting Corp. effective November 30, 2015, at a purchase price of $725,000. The stations, with ownership as of 2009, were:

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  3. ↑ "Miller Media Group Company Profile | Management and Employees List". Datanyze.com. Retrieved 2022-01-16.
  4. 1 2 3 "Nodaway Broadcasting, INC Announces Sale Of Radio Stations To Regional Media – Nodaway Broadcasting". Nodawaybroadcasting.com. 2021-10-18. Retrieved 2022-01-16.
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  11. ↑ "FM Station KQCJ - FCC Public Inspection File". publicfiles.fcc.gov.
  12. ↑ "AM Station WKEI - FCC Public Inspection File". publicfiles.fcc.gov.
  13. ↑ "FM Station WJRE - FCC Public Inspection File". publicfiles.fcc.gov.
  14. ↑ "FM Station WZOE-FM - FCC Public Inspection File". publicfiles.fcc.gov.
  15. ↑ "AM Station WZOE - FCC Public Inspection File". publicfiles.fcc.gov.
  16. ↑ "FM Station WRVY-FM - FCC Public Inspection File". publicfiles.fcc.gov.
  17. ↑ "FM Station WZZT - FCC Public Inspection File". publicfiles.fcc.gov.
  18. ↑ "FM Station WSSQ - FCC Public Inspection File". publicfiles.fcc.gov.
  19. ↑ "AM Station WSDR - FCC Public Inspection File". publicfiles.fcc.gov.
  20. ↑ "FM Station WLMD - FCC Public Inspection File". publicfiles.fcc.gov.
  21. ↑ "FM Station WJEQ - FCC Public Inspection File". publicfiles.fcc.gov.
  22. ↑ "FM Station WKAI - FCC Public Inspection File". publicfiles.fcc.gov.
  23. ↑ "FM Station WNLF - FCC Public Inspection File". publicfiles.fcc.gov.
  24. ↑ "FM Station WMQZ - FCC Public Inspection File". publicfiles.fcc.gov.
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