Draper Media has completed its acquisition of MTS Broadcasting in Cambridge, MD. The company is comprised of WAAI-FM, WTDK-FM, WCEM-FM, and WCEM-AM.
Draper has been expanding into radio on Delmarva as it expands its regional broadcast holdings.
“Our audience will have more choices for music, information about local events and more access to WBOC’s local news and weather with the addition of these four radio stations,” says Craig Jahelka, president Draper Media.
As a family-owned company, Draper Media plans to improve the quality of the FM broadcast signals as well as the variety of programming the stations offer, a release stated.
Draper is based in Salisbury, MD. It operates a studio in Dover and has other holdings in Delaware.
“Our founder Thomas Draper believed we have a moral obligation to serve the people of Delmarva,” said Jahelka. “We ensure his legacy lives on with our commitment to serve our audience with the local information and entertainment they desire.”
The company’s four new radio stations reach people in both Maryland’s Eastern Shore and Delaware. With four television stations, five radio stations and a full digital media division, Draper Media provides entertainment and information in both English and Spanish.
WCEM-FM will be rebranded as 106.3 Chesapeake Country.
Listeners who enjoyed WCEM’s previous adult contemporary music format can tune to Draper Media’s 50,000-watt existing radio station, 102.5 WBOC-FM for music, The released stated.
100.9 WAAI-FM will concentrate on classic country hits and the Duck, 107.1 continues to play classic rock hits. WCEM-AM 1240 features an adult standards format with artists ranging from Frank Sinatra to Michael Buble’.
All of Draper Media’s radio stations will carry WBOC-TV’s local news and weather as well as community event information and public affairs programming.
Draper Media ’s holdings are comprised of WBOC-TV, FOX21, WBOC Classics, Telemundo Delmarva, 102.5 WBOC-FM, 100.9% Classic Country WAAI-FM, 106.3 Chesapeake Country WCEM-FM, 107.1 The Duck WTDK-FM, and 1240 Adult Standards WCEM-AM.
Draper Media is owned and operated by Draper Holdings, which also owns Loblolly, L.L.C., a real estate development firm that has focused on the Milton, DE area.
Family members include Mariah Calagione, co-founder of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, Milton.
