NorthEast Radio Watch 10/23/2023: Seven Mountains Wraps It Up

In this week’s issue… Last of the Forever markets realigns – VT Public seeks new leader – Wier back in Boston – Celtics stay on the Hub – Maine honors Hall of Famers

By SCOTT FYBUSH

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*It’s been almost exactly a year since Seven Mountains Media announced the $17 million purchase of 34 radio stations in western PENNSYLVANIA from Forever, moving those signals from Kerby Confer’s ownership to the company controlled by his wife, Judith, and his daughter, Kristin Cantrell.

Over the last few months, we’ve chronicled the transitions Seven Mountains has made to the stations it acquired in State College, Altoona, Johnstown and Lebanon – and now we can fill in the last of the blanks as Seven Mountains finishes its shuffling with a major rearrangement of the Forever cluster that makes up most of the commercial radio dial along I-79 between Erie and Pittsburgh.

This last set of changes (at least for now) follows closely on the pattern of Seven Mountains’ other acquisitions: Forever’s news-talk formats are gone, replaced by several of the new owner’s own signature brands, mostly tracked from outside the market. Here’s how it plays out:

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