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Magic Broadcasting

magic Broadcasting, LLC was a parent to radio stations

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ6730638 ↗
Source-derived summary

Magic Broadcasting, LLC is a company which owned and operated five radio stations in Alabama and two in California.

History

Magic Broadcasting, LLC, formerly Styles Media Group, LLC, was founded in 1989. The name was changed to Magic Broadcasting in June 2006. The company is based in Panama City, Florida. Magic Broadcasting's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer was Don McCoy. The company sold off all of its radio stations in a series of transactions in 2010 and 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “Magic Broadcasting” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.