The International Grace of God Church, a Brazilian charismatic evangelical church, has acquired Brookfield-based WINE-AM 940 from Townsquare Media for $150,000.
According to a report from the broadcasting trade news site Radio Insight, the church will program its Brazilian-targeted, Portuguese-language “Nossa Radio” over WINE. This is the church”™s third radio station ”“ it also operates 1260 WBIX in Boston and 1400 WFLL/107.1 W296DK in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Townsquare acquired WINE in August 2013 as part of a portfolio of 53 stations from Cumulus Media. WINE had been a CBS Sports Radio affiliate until June 2021 and went silent for several weeks until it began simulcasting Classic Rock “I95” WRKI. The station went silent again last January.
