Radio and Television Transactions

Travel east of Hood River along the Columbia River separating Oregon from Washington, and you'll reach The Dalles — home to a Classic Country AM with an FM translator. Pending FCC approval, it will have a second FM translator serving this community.

The Legacy Preservation Foundation, which is associated with Mr. Skinner, is donating the FM translator due north of Las Vegas via I-15. Skinner is known as a consultant and media broker via his Rockwell Media Services.

MacDonald Garber Broadcasting has leased a Class A FM just west of Cadillac for 12 years. Now, it is acquiring the facility in what is truly a within-the-family transfer requiring the FCC's blessing, bringing "The Ticket" under full ownership control in Northern Michigan.

Two AM radio stations, a pair of FM translators and a 6kw Class A FM serving the Fort Smith, Ark., area and neighboring communities in Oklahoma are being put in the hands of a pair of individuals posed to take a 50/50 stake in the properties. What does this mean for "Clean Local Radio"?

In January 2023, Tron Dinh Do agreed to part ways with an AM in the San Francisco Bay Area. The buyer was a partnership between two men devoted to providing South Asians with in-language and in-culture programming. Now, Do is doing it again — this time in the Inland Empire.

An AM radio station with an FM translator and an FM serving a small area of New Mexico between Las Cruces and the Texas state line — possessing its own FM translator serving the El Paso metropolitan area — are heading to a new licensee. It involves the changing of the board and a cash deal.

In November 2017, a licensee led by Lyle Reynolds agreed to acquire an Alabama 1kw Class C AM for $200,000. It's a facility that had faced the axe in fall 2014. Now, he's agreed to sell the station at 1/10 that price.

For eight years, a Class A FM serving the Augusta, Ga., market has offered a blend of "beach music" and classic R&B music to listeners. Now, a change in ownership is poised to take place.

Chiefland, Fla., is a tiny community, due west of Gainesville. And, it has been home to a Class A FM simulcasting a Classic Rocker...

An Alabama FM known as God's Country is going to the non-commercial arm of Frank Lee Perryman's Marble City Media LLC. Licensed to Goodwater, AL, Classic Country and Southern Gospel formatted WFAZ is being sold by The First Assembly of God and Lead Pastor Keith Jones.

An eastern Kentucky FM covering the area south of Lickburg and west of Mashfork, along with three sister stations, is headed for new ownership,...

A Black Hills cluster is under a new company's umbrella following the sale of three FM signals and two FM boosters by the Delaware-based Bad Lands Broadcasting Company. Mid-Century Radio LLC, under Managing Member Aaron Ishmael, is the new owner of KRKI, KFMH, and KXZT, covering Belle Fourche, Keystone, and Newell, South Dakota. The FM boosters for KRKI and KFMH are added to cover Rapid City.

A Houston, Texas AM is changing hands from Classic Hits to a Spanish-language broadcast ministry. Estrella Media is selling KEYH-AM to Hector Guevara, President of the Radio Vida Vision Network and pastor of Centro Cristiano de Vida Eterna. The station experienced a broadcasting hiatus from December 31, 2020, until December 27, 2021, after its main transmitter site was sold.

The Santa Ynez Valley is known for its sprawling vineyards and bucolic towns attracting wine lovers. Serving this region is a Class A FM that has been owned by Knight Broadcasting. But that’s about to change.

In April 2023, a radio station owner not to be confused with a Canadian media operation completed its acquisition of radio stations in small Illinois cities from the Studsill family. Now, the company led by John Rung and dialed up another radio station deal. It involves the group led by Mary Quass.