Radio and Television Transactions

It is an operation that dates to July 1990, when WBGW-FM 101.5 began broadcasting from a remote corner of Gibson County in Southwest Indiana. Today, it has a network of six total FM signals in addition to WBGW, and WBGW-AM, too. Soon, it will be adding three FMs and two FM translators to its stable of non-secular broadcast properties.

An AM radio station and two FM translators serving the Hot Springs, Ark., area due west of Little Rock are about to undergo a transformation. When complete, the programming is expected to be en español. That's thanks to the stations' sale by E Radio Networks.

Mid-West Family Broadcasting has reached a deal to blend its four Springfield, Mo., stations into Zimmer Communications’ holdings in the market, forming a new nine-station cluster under local ownership. It's being billed as a "merger" in the Southwest Missouri hub between two longtime licensees in the Land of the Ozarks.

For a generation of kids, "C" is for "cookie." For Stingray Group Inc., the owner of the TuneIn audio streaming app, it's the newest radio station in its stable of properties located across Canada, as it has closed on a deal agreed upon in November 2025.

At the end of June, Connoisseur Media completed its sale of two AM stations and three FMs in a South Dakota market to local owners. It was discovered shortly thereafter that an important oversight was made in its transfer of control documents approved by the FCC. A correction has now been submitted to the agency.

He's an individual who first gained notoriety as the Trump for President campaign chairman for Virginia in 2016 and 2020 who by late 2023 claimed to be the third-largest independent News/Talk radio network in America. At that time, he acquired a Nashville AM. Now, he's doubling up in Music City USA.

As 2023 came to close, the purchase of KBSZ-AM 1260 in Apache Junction, Ariz., and K247CF at 97.3 MHz in Payson, Ariz., by William Tucker Jr.-led WOOK Radio DC Inc. was completed. Now, Tucker has struck a deal to purchase an AM radio station and its FM translator a little closer to the District of Columbia.

An AM/FM combo serving Warrensburg, Mo., along with an FM translator, are poised to trade hands, with Benne Broadcasting of Warrensburg LLC the buyer — pending regulatory approval.

A Florida-based non-profit media organization founded by Danny Ickes that focuses on positive programming, youth music mentoring, and educational broadcasting has a new Chief Executive Officer. That has prompted a transfer of control request involving the company and its FM radio station in a coastal North Carolina community.

At first glance, it may appear that Hoffman Media Group scored a bargain when it offered an unsolicited bid for Audacy's St. Louis radio stations, which the company controlled by Soros Fund Management eagerly accepted. According to a longtime deal valuation specialist, "it seems like a fair price" when reviewing the details of the transaction.

NRG Media has exited Omaha, ending some 21 years of operations following the merger of Norman Waitt Jr.’s Waitt Radio with Mary Quass’ NewRadio Group. The $2.15 million sale of three AMs and two FMs is complete, putting the properties in the hands of Usher Media.

Two FM translators licensed to the radio broadcasting company founded by the late Gordon Ichikawa and led today by Dawn Ichikawa is being sold to a regional operator led by Tom Hoyt.

An AM radio station offering listeners Classic Country music and agricultural reports and its FM sibling with an Oldies format branded as "The Bear" are poised to be heading into the hands of a new owner. What does this mean for this pair of stations serving Bozeman, Mont.?

One is a family-owned broadcast media company focused on non-secular programming. The other is the nation's largest single licensee of AM and FM radio stations. These two entities have just agreed to swap a pair of FM translators, located in Denver and in San Diego, respectively.

An AM/FM combo serving a small Montana town situated along the Beaverhead River, and Interstate 15, an hour to the south of Butte are heading to a new owner. That's pending FCC regulatory approval, of course, of their transfer to an "Angel."