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    Iconic Chicago rock station WLUP 'The Loop' sold to Christian broadcaster

    by Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune Mar 06, 2018 3 minutes

    CHICAGO - Legacy Chicago rock station WLUP-FM 97.9, "The Loop," will be sold to broadcaster Educational Media Foundation for $21.5 million and will switch formats Saturday to Christian music.

    The purchase agreement, struck last month and filed Monday with the Federal Communications Commission, moves the radio station, long a rock music fixture in Chicago, to a broadcaster whose K-LOVE adult contemporary Christian music format is heard on more than 600 stations nationwide.

    "We're really excited about being able to get into the Chicagoland area," Mike Novak, president

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