A much-in-the-news FM in the Virgin Islands sells for $610,021 – and goes country. Yes, “Caribbean Country,” playing “today’s country and yesterday’s favorites.” That’s quite a swing from the AC/sometimes talk “Paradise 93.5” format of WVVI-FM. It’s a Class B1 licensed to Christiansted, on the eastern side of the island. Buyer is Amanda Friedman’s RWave LLC, which owns Spanish WMYP Frederiksted at 98.3, over on the western side.

The engineering map by du Treil, Lundin & Rackley shows four AMs and 10 FMs in the relevant market, as determined by signal overlaps. So there’s no ownership problem with RWave buying WVVI from Roger Morgan’s The Rain Broadcasting. In fact RWave began LMAing WVVI in late January.

Morgan got the station three years ago in a disputed transfer from Philip and Ellen Kuhlman. Morgan had been running it for several years and the FCC entered into a consent decree with the Kuhlmans (who paid $15,000) and Morgan ($8,000) to settle questions of transfer of control of then-WYAC-FM. Now three years later, Morgan’s transferring the station to RWave for payment of $610,021 in debt owed by The Rain Broadcasting.