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Radio station gets third reprieve, one month to come up with $600k

By Michael Wright on Sep 7, 2010
Peconic Public Broadcasting and Long Island University on Friday afternoon agreed to yet another last-minute extension of the deadline to complete the sale of the former WLIU 88.3 FM radio... more

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