Charlottesville
Albemarle County, Virginia
Popular long time Charlottesville morning radio host and program director acquires area stations. Station ownership boots him as of weekend.
“We are looking forward to bringing local news and conversation back to the valley the same way we did for WCHV. We also hope to have my show back on the air in Charlottesville soon.” That’s what Joe Thomas , formerly of WCHV 1240 news talk in Charlottesville told me Monday morning when we reached out to get the story on what’s happening.
Thomas had been in negotiations for several weeks to acquire a series of stations that was available in the Staunton area. A filing with the FCC became public last week and word spread publicly. Thomas tells us he was let go by station ownership over the weekend.
This is unfolding as we speak and many that tuned in for his longtime morning talk show heard nothing but static Monday morning.
In full disclosure, BRL (Tommy Stafford) has been doing weekend overnight weather hit for WCHV 1240 and 107.5 for years until this past weekend.
Here’s the details from the RadioInsight trade publication story that ran last Friday.
