The day of WBRU's final broadcast on FM radio, former student executive board member Tucker Hamilton alleged that the sale of the station's licence was coerced; Hamilton and other members of a WBRU alumni group asked Rhode Island attorney general Peter Kilmartin to block the sale to Educational Media Foundation. According to the attorney general's office, they met "with alumni and their attorney as a courtesy, but as our attorneys explained, Rhode Island statute and regulation does not give the attorney general any legal authority to intervene, as is the case in nearly all private sales.” The Federal Communications Commission approved the sale of the 95.5FM license to Educational Media Foundation on October 24, 2017. The transfer was finalized on November 4.