Radio and Television Transactions

The price has been revealed for American General Media's previously announced spin of a CHR/Pop station serving the Albuquerque market. The buyer is BB Broadcasting, and it plans no format changes at the station known for "hit music now."

On June 14 RBR+TVBR reported on the sale of Univision Radio's four stations in New Mexico's biggest market, Albuquerque. We now know what it's collecting for its divestment some 15 years after grabbing the stations from Simmons Media. Meanwhile, Houston Christian Broadcasters is celebrating 55 years "of keeping him close by." Now, as the religious nonprofit tells it, "The Lord opened a door for KHCB to expand its ministry with the purchase of three stations." These deals in more are profiled in RBR+TVBR's TRANSACTIONS TODAY.

A little more than five years ago, Fisher Broadcasting forged an agreement that gave it the option to purchase a Class C radio station serving the Seattle-Tacoma market. This was tied to an LMA that allowed Fisher to use the FM as a simulcast partner for one of its Seattle stations. Today, Sinclair Broadcast Group owns Fisher's former Seattle stations, and holds the purchase option. It's now decided to exercise that option.

Some 160 miles from the Miami-Fort Lauderdale metropolitan area sits Sugarloaf Key, one of the final isles on the long drive on Overseas Highway to Key West -- capital of the tongue-in-cheek "Conch Republic." It is here that a silent FM that bears the famous calls of a once No. 1-station broadcasting from the World Building in Washington, D.C. resides. This station is now trading hands, in the lone deal featured in RBR+TVBR's TRANSACTIONS TODAY for June 22.

There’s a swap that’s been consummated in Northern California. This results in the disappearance of one religious noncomm network, the emergence of a different non-secular noncomm, and the return to commercial status for an FM with a long history of format flips.

Smack dab in the middle of California's San Joaquin Valley is the town of Wasco. It is here that a silent low power FM station licensed for 62 watts exists. This LPFM's board is evolving, prompting a Form 315 filing with the Commission. It is the lone transaction submitted to the FCC for approval in RBR + TVBR's TRANSACTIONS TODAY for Tuesday, June 20.

In what some may label a "fire sale" at troubled streaming audio company Pandora Media, the Oakland, Calif.-based company getting a $480 million investment from Sirius XM has just agreed to sell its only radio station for half of what Pandora paid for it exactly four years ago. Tucson-based Kalil & Co. represented Pandora in this transaction, which sees a South Dakota FM end up in the hands of a local broadcast company.

Wilfredo Blanco-Pi and La Más Z Radio are getting new AMs in a somewhat complicated deal in la Isla del Encanto. At the same time, Blanco-Pi has agreed to a plan that would move the transmitter of an AM owned by International Broadcasting Corp. to the site of one of Blanco-Pi's stations. Blanco-Pi will then sell the 5.6-acre site to IBC.

A family-run AM/FM combo in the northwest corner of Iowa will now be owned in full by the daughter of the couple who ran it. The move comes following the May 3 death of the family matriarch, who passed away at the age of 95.

In 2016, one of the largest television networks in the Dominican Republic gained an over-the-air home in Puerto Rico. Now, the owner of the Carolina, P.R., based UHF facility is selling the station. The buyer is the parent company of a station that has largely served as a west-island affiliate of one of Puerto Rico's biggest TV stations.

Amador Bustos is slowly acquiring more and more radio stations, as the veteran Spanish-language radio operator swiftly reestablishes himself as the Pacific Northwest's Hispanic media leader. Now, in a deal crafted in mid-May but not filed with the FCC until June 14, he's adding two FMs and an AM in Washington's Wine Country.

Nearly fifteen years after Univision Communications predecessor Hispanic Broadcasting Corp. completed its acquisition of five Simmons Media stations in the Albuquerque, N. Mex., market — giving it entry into one of the nation's top Hispanic DMAs, Univision is selling the four stations it still owns to a major regional player. Kalil & Co. is the exclusive broker in this headline-making transaction.

Has a dark AM station in Shakopee, Minn., on the outskirts of Minneapolis, packed up and moved some 1,800 miles to the Biggest Little City on Earth? Not exactly. But, it has indeed moved to Nevada.

A 45-year radio industry veteran who serves as president of Mercury Capital Partners has agreed to pay $2.3 million for a trio of AM radio stations serving some of the nation's biggest markets. In a deal filed with the FCC on Monday, the Charlie Banta-led Universal Stations LLC is the buyer. The seller is tied to Banta, making this deal a bit of a reorganization.

A Class A FM serving the growing Casa Grande, Ariz., area and nearby San Tan Valley portion of the Phoenix DMA has been sold by Univision Communications. Who's the owner? None other than the prolific buyer led by a man named Mike Novak. Who's the broker? Kalil & Co., representing the seller.