Radio and Television Transactions

Across the Pacific Northwest, Alexandra Communications, under the direction of Thomas and Cheryl Hodgins, has operated a collection of AMs, FMs and FM translators in a variety of locales. Now, they're preparing to take ownership of a pair of AM stations in rural eastern Oregon.

A 1,000-watt Class C AM radio station serving Fort Smith, Ark., is poised to become the property of a company that shares its name with a popular chocolate candy snack. That's because Pharis Broadcasting is abandoning "Fort Smith's Straight Talk" by handing the "Marshal" to a new boss.

More than 2 1/2 years after a lease deal gave the company control of the properties, paperwork is being submitted with the FCC seeking regulatory approval of a deal that would see Norsan Media finally take on ownership of an FM and an FM translator serving Spanish-speaking audiences in Austin.

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.

In December 2024, RBR+TVBR first shared the news that Forever Media, the Lynn Deppen-led radio station owner, was spinning a Lancaster, Pa., FM translator to the operator behind Word FM, a Christian-themed noncommercial entity. Now, a second deal has been struck between the two parties.

He's the man behind Rochester, Ill.-based Hart Media Group, and he's just struck a deal that will add to the company's stable of two AM and six FM radio stations serving an area of downstate Illinois to the east of Springfield.

A presently dark FM translator covering the Northwest Arkansas communities of Springdale and Fayetteville is being sold to the entity behind a broadcast operation devoted to serving the fast-growing Spanish-speaking community in an area known as the corporate headquarters of Wal-Mart.

Despite a six-month low in overall media and telecom transaction value, radio emerged as a bright spot in February, driving six of the ten largest deals. That's according to new data from S&P Global Market Intelligence supplied to Streamline Publishing's Radio Ink and Radio + Television Business Report.

A Class C3 FM News/Talk station with a lineup of syndicated hosts including Clay Travis & Buck Sexton and Sean Hannity will soon be in the hands of new owners, as George Flinn Jr. has decided to sell this property due north of the Tampa-St. Petersburg metropolitan area to the party operating the FM since 2010.

In July of last year, Educational Media Foundation completed its purchase of four radio stations in a $7 million deal that included KAIM-FM 95.5 in Honolulu. Now, the company that sold EMF that station has found a buyer for its remaining properties on O'ahu.

A pair of LPTV properties in the Catskills of New York is being sold by entrepreneur and 5G TV advocate “SuperFrank” Copsidas, and the FCC has just granted the transfer of control request associated with the deal.

Three FM radio stations serving a community in Eastern Oregon bisected by U.S. Highway 30 are being sold to a husband and wife who own three FMs and two AMs in the region.

It's a 1kw Class C AM radio station serving a coastal Oregon city sandwiched between Devils Lake and the Pacific Ocean. And, it is being acquired by a group behind a radio and online community project with a mission to inform and entertain Mt. Scott Meadows. 

He's the man behind Whiskey Sours Broadcasting & Productions of Michigan, and he's just invested in a Class A FM radio station serving the Kentucky town of Monticello. What does this mean for "Z93 Country"?

An FM translator simulcasting the programming of a 1kw Class D daytime-only AM radio station licensed to a small agricultural community in North Carolina that has attracted first-generation Hispanic immigrants in recent years is poised to head to a new owner.