Radio and Television Transactions

A dark noncommercial FM serving a small Southern city has just been acquired by the No. 2 licensee of radio stations in the U.S. It's one of the lone deals involving a fully licensed radio station to be filed with the Commission this week, capping off one of the slowest periods for transactions so far this year.

In a deal between two individuals, a group of five low-power TV stations in Texas are trading hands. The stations are in Lubbock, Victoria and San Angelo, respectively.

It's been a very slow October for radio and TV transactions. The trickle of deal-making is such that the lone item up for discussion in TRANSACTIONS TODAY is a change of control of a low-power FM serving a community in the Grand Canyon State.

A Class D AM on the outskirts of Alabama's biggest city has been donated to a group that plans to use the facility and its unbuilt FM translator to "successfully advance their educational outreach to the young women of color" in the area for which these facilities serve.

In March 2003, Idaho-based Edgewater Broadcasting filed approximately 1,700 applications for FM translators across the country. It was granted 484 CPs. Some 14 years later, Edgewater accelerated the transfer of hundreds of construction permits. Now comes word that Edgewater is parting ways with several others.

An Idaho-based non-secular broadcasting company led by President Dennis Clounch has decided to sell another one of its FM translators, continuing a trend started two years ago. The latest divestment involves a city in Montana, and the No. 2 licensee of AM and FM broadcast stations in the U.S.

To the north and northwest of the Pennsylvania state capital of Harrisburg are the towns of Middleburg and Elliotsburg, respectively. Here, two low-power TV stations are being sold. It's the lone deal we have to talk about in yet another quiet day for TRANSACTIONS TODAY.

At 1450 kHz is a Class C 1kw AM with 1 tower serving a small town in the Deep South. The facility has an FM translator, and both are used for a Classic Hits format as "My 95," signifying the translator's dial position. Before August 6, a News/Talk format was heard. That's because an LMA-to-purchase agreement went in to place, putting the wheels in motion on a transaction that has just been filed with the Commission.

A religious entity in the Heart of Dixie has closed on its acquisition of a unique Class D AM facility. This station has a complex signal that covers the Atlanta market during daylight hours but barely reaches the northwest corner of the metro after dark. The broker: Media Services Group.

No Asset Purchase Agreements have been submitted to the FCC in either a Form 314 or Form 345 filing since Wednesday. As such, TRANSACTIONS TODAY takes a look at several STA requests brought to the Commission's attention. One involves Salem Media Group, while another is from an AM station in the Seattle market.

Once again, there's a dearth of deals being filed for Commission approval. As such, there is no TRANSACTIONS TODAY to offer. Rather, we have two Special Temporary Authority requests to share.

With 25 watts from a mountain top above Santa Rosa, Calif., an FM translator that once served as the local affiliate of one of the nation's leading Contemporary Christian noncomm networks has officially traded hands. The buyer has its own religious programming, and its perfectly "broken."

In 2016, a possible Houston market move-in was the subject of a RadioDiscussions.com thread. An owner with a testy history with the FCC, Roy Henderson, was mentioned. Now, this Class C3 facility far to the west of Katy and the nation's sixth-largest radio market is being sold to a non-secular entity serving Latinos. Also in TRANSACTIONS TODAY: The price for Kaua'i.

The post-Radio Show malaise is in full force, and there's but a trickle of deals to discuss in TRANSACTIONS TODAY as of late. In our Weekend Edition, we take you to beautiful Morris County, N.J., where an ethnic AM is being sold to a Hispanic religious entity that is gaining another signal in the New York Tri-State area.

An AM radio station in Coal Country that of late has offered listeners the Westwood One-syndicated Urban AC format The Touch is being sold nearly two years after local media noted that the facility was being put on the market in a "sacrifice sale." The assignee is a husband and wife team who are locally based.