News\/Talk radio station WRTA, Altoona has entered into a sales agreement with a Cresson based broadcaster.
\nRod Wolf, president of Altoona Trans audio, announced the agreement with David A. Barger, president of Sounds Good Inc., which operates FM station Q94. The agreement is subject to approval by the FCC and will mark the first change in ownership of WRTA in more than 45 years.
\nWolf first joined WRTA in 1957. He, along with the late Lou Murray, then vice president of the company, began the first local talk radio program in 1960. The show was called \u201cOpen Mike\u201d and at first featured host Terry Parker for one hour each morning during weekdays. Music was featured the rest of the day.
\n\u201cTwenty years ago I made the decision to leave music programming altogether and go talk. We\u2019ve never looked back,\u201d Wolf recalled in explaining a switch that moved the station away from a long-time radio staple. \u201cWe were in uncharted waters when we switched to \u2018talk\u2019 programming from 10 a.m. until midnight.\u201d
\nBarger stated, \u201cI\u2019ve been a fan of WRTA talk radio ever since the days of Terry Parker. It uniquely serves the community.
\n\u201cWe do not plan any major changes in programming or personnel,\u201d said Barger when asked about his plans for the station by The Tyrone Daily Herald. \u201cOur plan is continue the great tradition at WRTA that Rod Wolf started many years ago. Rod Wolf will continue as broadcaster emeritus here at WRTA. His influence on the station will continue into retirement.\u201d
\n\u201cDavid Barger was an excellent entrepreneur and businessman outside of the radio business and has development a real talent and ability in our business since entering it several years ago. I feel comfortable with him taking over the reins at WRTA,\u201d said Wolf when contacted by telephone at the radio station this morning.
\nBarger went on to say he felt the stations, WRTA and Q94 would compliment each other and the move was one that had been in the works for several years. Barger also indicated Q94 would move its operations into WRTA\u2019s 12th Avenue, Altoona location sometime after the first of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
News\/Talk radio station WRTA, Altoona has entered into a sales agreement with a Cresson based broadcaster. Rod Wolf, president of Altoona Trans audio, announced the agreement with David A. Barger, president of Sounds Good Inc., which operates FM station Q94. The agreement is subject to approval by the FCC and will mark the first change […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}