Stan Bennett’s Bennett Radio Group has acquired Canxus Broadcasting Corporation’s four station across the Maine/Canada border for $400,000.
Operating as Full Service AC “Channel X Radio“, the stations included in the deal are 97.7 WCXU Caribou/Presque Isle, 98.1 WCXV Van Buren, 102.3 WCXX Madawaska, and 103.1 W276AY Fort Kent.
George Kimble of Kozacko Media Services served as broker of the deal. Bennett also owns stations in Lewiston/Auburn ME after previously working in programming and on-air at Binnie Media’s Portland cluster from 1994 until 2020 with stints as the company’s Vice President of Programming and morning host at Classic Hits “107.5 Frank-FM” WFNK Lewiston/Portland. He commented on the purchase, “I have great respect for Richard Chandler, Pam Curley and the late Dennis Curley who worked tirelessly for the past 37 years serving the Northern Maine and Western New Brunswick communities with the Channel X radio Network. This purchase will allow these stations to remain locally owned and operated.
This story first appeared on radioinsight.com