WTSS-FM (Star 102.5) morning host Rob Lucas announced on-air today that the station will end its run playing pop music at 10 a.m. Friday due to the Audacy-owned station’s sale to a religious radio broadcasting group.
Lucas, who has been on the station for 37 years, praised local management for how well he has been treated as he stayed on for the last few months and added he was offered a job to work at other Audacy stations in the market.
He declined the offer and said he doesn’t know what’s next.
WTSS was sold in combination with a Memphis country station that Audacy owns for $15.5 million to Educational Media Foundation.
Educational Media Foundation (EMF) reportedly is a noncommercial Christian radio group based in a Nashville, Tenn., suburb that owns and operates 1,000 stations and is best known for airing the Christian music format K-Love.
