New Group Picks Up For in Arizona

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John Beck, who was GM for Emmis in St. Louis before the stations were sold back in February, is part of a group set to purchase four stations in Flagstaff, Arizona. Beck’s new group, Stone Canyon Radio & Marketing, includes Joe Schwartz and Dana Withers.

Schwartz is the former CEO of Cherry Creek Media and Dana Withers is the President of Withers Broadcasting and Dana Communications.

Schwartz will be relocating to the Flagstaff area to work with the cluster team while Beck and Withers will remain at their current positions in St. Louis and Mt. Vernon. Beck is still a Senior VP with Emmis as he cleans up loose ends from the sale. He’ll be going to Arizona from time to time but will remain in St. Louis where he has deep roots

The start of an LMA, which will allow for an earlier takeover, will be announced shortly.

Emmis sold St. Louis stations KSHE-FM and KPNT-FM to Hubbard Radio for $45 million, and KFTK-FM and KNOU-FM to Entercom for $15 million.

Stone Canyon is purchasing KWMX-FM (Classic Rock), KBTK-FM (Talk), KSED-FM (Country) and KFLX-FM (Oldies) from Grenax II Broadcasting.

Joe Schwartz Commented: “This is a wonderful opportunity for three veteran broadcasters to pool our years of broadcast experience to create exceptional programming, on the street marketing, top digital assets and to bring the best advertising services available to the Flagstaff-Prescott area. In addition I can’t wait to work with current VP & General Manager Stan Pierce and his team.”

Beck said, “We believe that the key to our success in Flagstaff-Prescott will be our people. Greg Dinetz at Grenax has gathered together some of the best in the business and we look forward to working with them.”

“We are very excited to be entering the Flagstaff-Prescott, AZ market and looking forward to building upon the legacy that Grenax has established as well as caring for the listeners, the employees, our clients, and the community,” stated Withers.

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