Cumulus Silences A Space Coast Sports Radio Operation

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TITUSVILLE, FLA. — It’s a 5kw daytime-only AM radio station at 1560 kHz that must power down at night to protect a heritage New York radio station with an all-important FM translator blanketing the western suburbs of fast-growing Melbourne.


Now, this Sports Talker and listeners across Brevard County seeking local host Mark Moses will have to turn elsewhere, as Cumulus Media silenced the station on Friday.

WLZR-AM and W300DL at 107.9 MHz, “The Fan,” is no more. In an announcement, Moses shared that he was informed of the decision to discontinue operations of the station “a couple of weeks ago,” and that it was made by Cumulus’ corporate office in Atlanta.

WLZR has been a Sports Talk station for a decade and has most recently been a member of the Infinity Sports Network.

For Moses’ 3-6pm sports talk program, a podcast what’s next; he’ll still be actively involved in Cumulus’ Class Rock-formatted WROK “95.9 The Rocket,” where he hosts middays. He also appears weekly on a Charter Spectrum all-news cable TV channel in the Orlando and Tampa-St. Petersburg markets, in a side gig.

“I am very proud of all the hard work my engineer Jon Roberts, my co-workers and myself put into that radio station and [it] breaks my heart that we must take it off the air,” Moses wrote. “I always called WLZR ‘The Little Engine that Could’ and loved every event and  broadcast we executed on that great radio station.”

Moses joined the Melbourne-Titusville-Cocoa radio stations owned by Cumulus Media, which include Top 40 WAOA-FM 107.1, in 2013 following a role as a Sports Radio talk host and producer for “ESPN Omaha,” then owned by Journal Broadcast Group.