Radio and Television Transactions

Tune to "the Voice of Northeast Montana" in morning drive and you'll hear the station's Program Director and General Manager.  Pending FCC approval, he'll also be the owner of a station that is being sold by Jann Holter Berntsen.

“Father Rocky” has another group of assets in hand, as Illinois-based Relevant Radio has closed on its acquisition of an AM and four associated FM radio stations, giving the non-secular noncommercial religious broadcast ministry coverage of the Detroit market.

As 2011 began, so did a lease management agreement between a major Hispanic media company serving the Southeast U.S. and George Buck. Two years later, Buck died, placing the two FMs, AM and FM translator it's been operating under an LMA in the hands of a trust. Now, Norberto Sanchez is making them O&Os. 

“I put 103.1 on the air, May 7, 1979,” Gerald Hunt Sr. said a little more than a decade ago. “I sold 103.1, which was WJHR at the time… April 1, 1983 and bought it back 10 years to the day.” Today, that station is WMXX-FM, and it is a sibling to three other radio stations and an FM translator in Tennessee that are being involuntary transferred, as Hunt has passed away.

He's forever linked to Z100 in New York, thanks to his role as its inaugural sales leader. Today, Gary Fisher is the President of New Jersey-based Equity Communications, and he's now ready to pocket a little bit of cash thanks to the sale of a non-core asset licensed to Wildwood Crest.

Broadcast media broker Todd Fowler is also a licensee of radio stations. And, he's a party in no less than three transactions submitted for regulatory approval with the Commission. In two of those deals, he's the seller. In the third, Fowler is the buyer.

A Class D AM radio station and its FM translator at 101.1 MHz in the Massachusetts city of Brockton have been sold. Who is the buyer? It's a woman based in Sharon, Mass., who has reached a deal with the seller, Ed Perry. s

It may technically not be a station sale, but it is indeed a transfer of control. And, there is money being transacted. As such, the FCC has received a filing from the owner of a 50,000-watt FM serving Olivia, Minn., that seeks its permission to transfer it from one licensee to another.

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.

In November 2023, Steve Kingston agreed to a $75,000 purchase of an Annapolis, Md.-based FM translator. The acquisition of an AM that will serve as the primary station came in January. Now, Kingston has adjusted the ownership mix for the licensee of this AM and the FM translator.

No, we're not talking about the famed football coach. Rather, this Jimmy Johnson is the President of Johnson Broadcast Ventures, and he's agreeing to snap up a Class D daytime-only Full Service AM radio station in a community along the busy I-95 corridor due north of Roanoke Rapids, N.C.

Coloff Media was founded by Tony and Sue Coloff in 1978. Today, it is led by Jim Coloff. Now, the Iowa-focused company has agreed to expand with the purchase of an AM/FM combo and FM translator in a town due north of the Quad Cities.

Castelli Media, the low-power TV station licensee led by Vincent Castelli, has received regulatory approval for a deal announced in September that sees the sale of a low-power television station in Santa Barbara, Calif., by the LPTV entrepreneur.

Fifty-two years ago, Top 40 radio was graced with a Miami cocktail lounge improv performance turned into a hit record, as "Why Can't We Live Together" brought Timmy Thomas acclaim. Now, the name Tim Thomas is back in the news, but this time it involves the acquisition of a group of radio stations in the Lowcountry of South Carolina.

Four FM radio stations and two sibling properties on the AM band are being sold by Henry Ash and his Petracom of Holbrook LLC, paperwork filed late Friday with the FCC for its regulatory approval shows. Who's the buyer?