Radio and Television Transactions

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.

Rodanthe, N.C., has the privilege of being home to the easternmost point in North Carolina, and Hatteras fishing pier. It is also the locale of a 100-watt Class A FM radio station that is in the process of a transfer of control.

A Class C3 FM radio station offering the "Young Guns and Legends" of Country across most of its broadcast week (and Alfred Vrazel's Polka Show on Sundays, among other specialty shows) is about to get a new owner: Gary Moss.

At 680 kHz in Olympia, Wash., a unique music-driven radio station has offered nostalgia to fans of records released on 78 RPM as "K-Bird." The facility is a Class D daytime-only AM, with an all-important FM translator giving its 24/7 service to the state capital of Washington. Pending FCC approval, it will soon have a second AM.

For decades, Southern Connecticut radio listeners have enjoyed a Top 40 station once home to conservative talk host Glenn Beck branded as "KC101." But did you know there is another "KC101," at 101.5 MHz in the Keystone State? This station, a Class A FM serving Mansfield, airs country music. And it's just been sold.

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.

It has all of 9 watts of power and serves a rural area of the sprawling Atlanta market, due west of the town of Woodstock, Ga. Soon, this FM translator will have a new owner.

As 2024 came to a close, Waterstone emerged as a major Salem shareholder. Now, paperwork has been filed with the Commission seeking its approval of an arrangement that sees Waterstone gain some $40 million worth of preferred shares in the media company focused on secular and non-secular programming.

Darrell Calton has gained attention for engineering an ownership shift at Iliad Media Group that made it an employee-owned licensee — one that recently agreed to expand to Montana. Now, his son has created another employee-owned entity by teaming up with five other individuals to purchase two FM radio stations.