Radio and Television Transactions

Paperwork submitted to the FCC for its regulatory approval shows that a radio broadcasting company led by veteran operator Tom Taggart and President Sam Yoho has agreed to sell a pair of West Virginia FMs to a local buyer. 

It is a silent FM radio station with a construction permit for a 33kw signal from a mountaintop facility due west of Skokomish, Wash., and the Tacoma area. Soon, it will no longer be a Jodesha Broadcasting property, with a new owner coming to this Grays Harbor-focused station.

American University, which owns noncom NPR-affiliated News-Talk WAMU-FM Washington, DC, is

The Aloha Station Trust is selling an FM in Wisconsin.

Get ready to see two FMs get shifted from commercial to noncommercial status. In Maryland’s Eastern Shore, a Class A FM specializing in variety has been given a Bridge of Hope. In Bayou Country, a Class C3 FM airing a Classic Rock format is about to get a bit of love … KLOVE, that is. These are the key deals in RBR + TVBR's TRANSACTIONS TODAY.

A silent AM in Salt Lake City owned by Cumulus Media has been purchased by an individual who has been busily making deals in Arizona and in Maui, Hawaii over the last few months.

In late August 2016, Beasley Media Group made headlines for agreeing to purchase an FM translator with a transmitter at the top of the Stratosphere tower on the Las Vegas Strip for a cool $700,000. Beasley has now flipped the switch on K268CS, and it's bringing a bright new "lite" to Southern Nevada.

Three more Notice of Unlicensed Operation notices were distributed by the Commission this week—further proof that the FCC under Chairman Ajit Pai is aggressively going after the buccaneers of broadcasting.

Two Class B noncommercial FMs in a remote region of California are trading hands. There's "Living Proof" of this deal in the form of a Form 314 filing made with the Commission on Tuesday (8/22), and it's the lone transaction in RBR+TVBR's TRANSACTIONS TODAY on yet another quiet day for deals.

Not only is this Class C2 featuring a Adult Alternative format shifting to a new owner, but so is a Class C1 sibling that always goes a "Mile" with its Classic Hits presentation. Meanwhile, there's another radio deal worth noting on a busy Thursday, and broker Mark Jorgenson is behind this South Carolina noncomm trade.

One of the nation's biggest noncommercial public media entities has added another outlet to its collection of Boston broadcast properties. It's a post-Spectrum Auction Channel-Sharing Agreement (CSA), and no dollars are trading hands. That's fine. Both the donor and the recipient of the CSA collected millions of dollars in the FCC's Auction 1000.

A Class A FM facility to the northeast of Indianapolis has been selected for divestment by a Christian liberal arts university affiliated with the Church of God. Meanwhile, a noncommercial network of regional Mexican stations targeting first-generation farmworkers has closed on its acquisition of a translator serving a portion of the Phoenix market. Kalil & Co. served as the broker in this transaction. Those are the biggest headlines in RBR+TVBR's TRANSACTIONS TODAY for Dec. 6, 2017.

On June 30, 2017, a Class B 50kw AM facility in Boston signed off the air, concluding a life that began Oct. 18, 1934. Under Max Richmond, this station in 1957 adopted a Top 40 format, which lasted until March 1975. From 1976, it embraced Talk and Sports in various incarnations, and even changed its call letters to WITS-AM. With its Waltham, Mass., tower lease expiring, this storied AM went dark. Now, WMEX-AM 1510 is ready for its resurrection. It's the top topic of discussion in RBR+TVBR's TRANSACTIONS TODAY for Thursday, Jan. 18.

Here's a deal that involves a Class C AM and an agreement that resolves some of the seller's financial woes. The AM station is seeing a transfer of control agreed to in October 2017, by way of a Form 314 filing made with the Commission on Feb. 26, 2018.  In exchange, forgiveness has been given.