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WFFN (95.3 FM, "95.3 The Bear") is a radio station licensed to serve Coaling, Alabama, USA, and broadcasting to the Tuscaloosa, Alabama, area. The station is owned by Townsquare Media. It broadcasts a country music format.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.arbitron.com/ )〕 It is the flagship station of Alabama Crimson Tide football and men's basketball. The station was assigned the WFFN call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on April 15, 1987.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=54797&Callsign=WFFN )〕 The station changed its city of license from Cordova, Alabama, to Coaling, Alabama, in late 2005.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=FCC Media Bureau )〕 In June 2004, New Century Radio (Vachel L. Posey Jr., president) reached an agreement to transfer WFFN to Apex Broadcasting Inc. (Houston L. Pearce, chairman) in consideration of the costs to build the facilities related to the then-upcoming change in the community of license. The deal was approved by the FCC on June 24, 2004, and the transaction was consummated on June 30, 2004.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=FCC Media Bureau )〕 At the time of the sale, the station broadcast an oldies music format. In February 2005, Apex Broadcasting Inc. (Houston L. Pearce, chairman) reached an agreement to sell WFFN and six other radio stations in Alabama to Citadel Broadcasting Company (Farid Suleman, chairman/CEO) for a reported sale price of $29 million. At the time of the sale, the station broadcast an oldies music format. Citadel merged with Cumulus Media on September 16, 2011. Cumulus sold WFFN and its sister stations to Townsquare Media effective July 31, 2012. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WFFN」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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