Jim Jacobs, the station’s current owner through Radio Richmond, LLC, confirmed that the $500,00 deal to sell WREJ 990 AM/101.3 FM to Relevant Radio is moving forward. An announcement on “The Gary Flowers Show” Monday morning made it official that

the station’s current programming will cease effective Aug. 31.

“Relevant Radio has its own programming. It’s Catholic spoken word, so what we’re doing will be gone,” Mr. Jacobs said in a recent phone call. “Some of our clients have moved over to WBTK, so they will continue to broadcast from there.”

WBTK 1380 AM will broadcast Rejoice regular programs Hebrew Voice on Saturdays at 11 a.m., Reclaiming my Life with Coach Claudia Massey on Mondays at noon and Hope for Life Ministries with Chantelle Giles on Fridays at 11:45 a.m. said Randy Johnson, WREJ’s program and music director.

Mr. Johnson, who also hosts the weekday afternoon drive program “Afternoons with Brother Randy” will take a position behind the scenes at WBTK helping them to transition over. He said by phone that he plans to continue having an on-air presence with at least an internet radio station, but nothing has been finalized at this time.

As for Gary Flowers, whose show the announcement of the sale was made on, he said in a phone interview that he is still deciding his next steps.

“Given the suddenness of the announcement, I will carefully consider options before me and make a considered choice on a path forward. In any event, I will continue to connect people to good information in order to address the issues before them.”

Mr. Flowers is well known in his native Richmond. He has long been an activist, advocate and analyst of issues affecting civil rights, human rights and public policy on the local, national and global levels.

In just some of his many roles through the years, he served as a special assistant to Gov. L. Douglas Wilder in the early 1990s, was the national field director for the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH Coalition from 1997 to 2007 and is the former executive director and CEO of the Black Leadership Forum, an alliance of national African-American civil rights and service organizations.

The fourth-generation Jackson Ward resident also puts his local knowledge to use. Groups can book to spend two hours “Walking the Ward with Gary Flowers” and touring his historic downtown neighborhood.

Mr. Flowers notes that his listening and viewing audience, his “voices of the village,” have been his motivation since taking over from the late Jack Gravely in 2016.

“I have been elated every day to enter the studio knowing that I’m prepared to give commentary on the issues of the day, but more so to receive commentary, perspective and opinions from the voices of the village,” he said.