NEW YORK — The Federal Communications Commission has accepted consummation of a transfer of control involving WBWD 540 AM, Islip, New York, from Sejal Dasondi to Bhayani Media, LLC.
The station’s application, FCC file number 0000302146, was filed Aug. 18 and granted Oct. 6. The FCC accepted the consummation notice Nov. 9 in its daily broadcast actions.
WBWD is a 10,000-watt daytime AM licensed to Islip and serving Long Island and the wider New York metropolitan area with Radio Zindagi’s South Asian programming.
A control change, not a license assignment
Om Sai Broadcasting, LLC remains the station’s legal licensee. The completed transaction changes the controlling party behind that licensee from Dasondi to Bhayani Media; it does not assign the WBWD license to a new licensee entity.
That distinction matters for ownership databases. The legal-licensee field should remain Om Sai Broadcasting, LLC, while the ultimate-control record should be updated to Bhayani Media, LLC effective with the consummation. The station count remains one full-power AM before and after the transaction.
RNN has not verified a transaction price in the public record reviewed, and the filing does not by itself establish any programming change. Those points remain unresolved.
The completed control transfer is material because it changes who directs a full-power station in the nation’s largest radio market without changing the name on the FCC license. Databases that track only licensee names could miss the change.