RADIO

After 24 years in Gloucester, Mass., as the disc jockey, technician and owner of WVCA-FM, Simon Geller, 68, has sold his one-man radio station for $1 million. He says that he’s finally ready to propose to his girlfriend of 32 years and start a new life. The tiny classical music station with an estimated 90,000 listeners may be best known for an 11-year battle with the Federal Communications Commission, which once threatened to shut it down. Geller’s fight with the government started when a company interested in acquiring WVCA notified the FCC that the format violated the regulatory commission’s requirements that community interest, news and public affairs be a part of programming. But the FCC’s decision to revoke Geller’s license was reconsidered in 1984 on orders of a federal appeals court, which pointed out that the station had the support of Gloucester community leaders and listeners. His license was renewed a year later. Geller sold the station to Doug Tanger, who has promised to maintain WVCA’s classical music tradition.