Radio and Television Transactions

A 50kw Class B AM radio station offering regional Mexican programming, with an FM translator licensed to Omaha, are being sold by the broadcast media company founded and led by Mary Quass. The buyer? An individual who served as the stations' Program Director for 15 years, until 2022.

Call Communications has crafted a business built on Christian Rock music, with stations in markets including Miami-Fort Lauderdale. Now, the operation led by President/GM Robert J. Robbins has agreed to sell a facility in the Land of Lincoln.

Kristina Bruni-led Fair Play Broadcasting has signed off on the sale of a low-power broadcast television station serving the Texas Gulf Coast. The buyer? It's another prolific purveyor of LPTV facilities. 

It serves the town of Burnet, Tex., and until now has been owned by Richard Herring. Pending FCC approval, a new licensee will be in possession of this FM translator serving a portion of Hill Country to the west of Austin.

The broadcast ministry led by the Wildmon family for decades is expanding again. This time, it is agreeing to purchase a Class C3 noncommercial FM serving Iowa's largest market. It's a facility presently devoted to serving the Black community — and that's poised to change.

It's a Class B FM with a huge coverage area that uses a broadcast tower just south of the Maryland-Pennsylvania border, allowing it to serve Chambersburg and Hanover, Pa.; Martinsburg, W. Va.; and parts of Maryland including Hagerstown and Frederick. Soon, it will be a sibling to a longtime Baltimore-based Christian broadcaster.

A partnership between Todd and Margaret Marker has emerged as the pending new owner of a pair of FM translators serving a pair of cities in the Coachella Valley of California. The seller is an entity led by Ronald Cohen.

On April 14, RBR+TVBR first reported on a transaction that saw Marc McCain and his Sugar Valley Broadcasting agree to purchase an AM/FM combo serving communities due east of the Atlanta metropolitan area. That deal, brokered by Jon Yinger, has now closed.

The veteran radio industry figure has decided to sell an AM in Libby, Mont., he's been associated with since February 1977, and has arranged a concurrent deal to say farewell to that station's FM sibling.

In February 2024, the widow of the late Steve Marks signed off on the sale of a group of radio stations located in Glendive, Mont., to an entity led by Managing Member Andrew Sturlaugson. Now, the estate of Mr. Marks is spinning two full-power TV stations and a TV translator property to an educational institution.

Its programs include "Discovering the Jewish Jesus." That is just a sample of what listeners to a Class B AM radio station with a booming signal stretching from Austin to close to Oklahoma City can hear on "The Truth Station." Pending FCC approval, this facility will be shifting to a new licensee.

A presently dark 250-watt FM translator using a tower site sandwiched between fast-growing Bartow and bustling Lakeland, Fla., is the latest property Ferris Waller has agreed to obtain, adding to a mix of stations across the Sunshine State's interior.

An assignment agreement was signed and finalized on Halloween 2024. But did the parties get spooked about submitting it to the FCC for its regulatory approval? While that's likely not the case, what is known is that a LMS filing finally transpired on July 6.

A series of asset purchase agreements have been submitted to the FCC for its regulatory approval that, if it gives its OK, would shift ownership to an organization under the direction of Luther Pate IV.

An AM/FM combo in Warrenton, Mo., and an accompanying trio of FM translators — including one licensed to St. Louis — are being transferred to the personal representative to the estate of the individual who owned them. The change in control comes after the owner's recent passing.