FCC Grants Estate Shift For Barry Thompson’s Stations
He signed an FM radio station in Crowley, La., on the air in 1977 and later purchased three low-power TV stations in the Bayou State. Barry D. Thompson was the owner, and died in September. This necessitated a shift in the ownership of the media properties, and the FCC has just granted that request.
Transactions: 11-07-08
$200K WEFX-FM CP Watertown NY (Calcium NY) from Liveair Communications Inc. (David M. Wang) to Community Broadcasters LLC (James L. Leven, Bruce J. Mittman,...
Swap translates into Utica AM
Charles Williamson’s Charles Williamson has a very unusual deal sitting at the FCC. He’ll be getting WRUN-AM New Hartford NY, in the Utica-Rome market,...
San Diego AM going noncom
IHR Educational Broadcasting, headed by Douglas M. Sherman, is getting an AM in the San Diego market which will provide a Southern California home...
Marshall plan: Sell WLTH
A Gary IN station serving northwest Indiana and the southside of Chicago is changing hands. Radio veteran Pluria Marshall is selling WLTH-AM to Michillianna Broadcasting LLC.
Salem bulking up in Greenville-Spartanburg
Art Sutton’s Georgia-Carolina Wireless LLC is spinning off a full-power FM-to-be and an
Lee Lassoes Cochise FM; ‘Ham’ Takes ‘Tiger’
A Kentucky 'Tiger' has been sold to a 'Ham' of an operator. A licensee led by Ted Tucker is parting ways with an Idaho FM, following this entity's May 2017 Consent Decree with the FCC to resolve a matter involving the failure to operate stations in Arizona for more than a handful of days over a period of several years. These are the two deals described in detail in TRANSACTIONS TODAY.
Hall Communications Completes a Tower Sale
A family-owned, women-run radio broadcasting company with stations in five markets has completed the sale of its tower assets in one New England market to a Dutchess County, N.Y.-based company known as a developer and operator of communications tower facilities.
Transactions: 1-28-11
$2.725M KNDL-FM Santa Rosa CA (Angwin CA) form Howell Mountain Broadcasting Company (Tim Mitchell et al) to Classical Public Radio Network LLC (Brenda Barnes,...
Almavision Sells A Silent Silver State Noncomm
The licensee of three low-power TV facilities, two of which are primarily used for radio broadcasts at 87.7 MHz in Miami, is selling its lone officially licensed FM radio station. It's located in a rural part of northern Nevada, and it's the top deal in RBR+TVBR's TRANSACTIONS TODAY for Friday, Aug. 11, 2017.
Byrne buys in Clemson
$2,187,882 WHAT-AM/WCCP-FM Clemson SC from Golden Corners Broadcasting Inc. (George Clement) to Byrne Acquisition Group LLC (John B. Byrne, Blake Byrne). $87.5K escrow, $1,662,500...
Price revealed for Elyria OH FM sale
When word came out that a buyer had been found for WNWV-FM Elyria OH, the principals in the deal decided to keep a lid...
MBM south Texas buying spree continues
It hasn’t even been a year yet since MBM Radio started buying up radio stations in the Rio Grande area in Texas not far...
Spanish Evangelical FM Trades Hands
A network of Spanish-language noncommercial radio stations serving various cities in Texas has transferred control of a Class A FM to the west of the Odessa-Midland area.
Reyes Gets More Time To Complete NE Kansas Buy
In September 2024, RBR+TVBR first shared the news that a 100kw FM with a signal that reaches Kansas City and Topeka, Kansas, is being acquired by the largest Hispanic media company in the region. It is now known that the buyer needs a little more time to complete the transaction.