Radio and Television Transactions

A noncommercial FM serving a small town in the middle of Central California's cattle country and almond tree groves is being handed to a new licensee, one that intends to use the Class A facility as a home for independent and grass-roots programming.

RBR+TVBR in early June learned that Dish's former treasurer — an individual employed by entities owned or controlled by Charlie Ergen for more than three decades — has acquired a 75% stake in a group of television properties under the HC2 Broadcasting banner. The FCC has now received the Form 314 filings tied to the deal.

In July 2025, a Class B AM radio station serving a portion of the Raleigh-Durham area experienced the wrath of a tropical storm that destroyed the station's AM broadcasting equipment, forcing it to rely solely on its FM translator, which mainly covers Chapel Hill. Now, a buyer has surfaced for both facilities.

With Kalil & Co. serving as the exclusive broker in the transaction, Curtis Media Group in late April filed paperwork with the FCC seeking its approval of a deal that would see it acquire four FMs, one AM and two FM translators in the Wilmington-New Bern-Jacksonville, N.C. market. The Commission has OK'd the deal.

It's a Class B FM licensed for 20kw with much of its signal covering water. Still, it reaches enough of Newport News, Norfolk and Virginia Beach to warrant this station's acquisition by K-LOVE Inc. In exchange, it is handing an FM in the Palmetto State to the seller.

It is a Class D FM translator with all of 10 watts, and that's enough to reach tiny Glide, Ore., and nearby Roseburg. Situated between Eugene and Medford, this facility has served as a rebroadcast partner for the University of Oregon's Classical service. That's about to change.

Serving towns including Glens Falls, Warrensburg and popular holiday village Lake George, a Class A FM offering a blend of Classic Hits as "93.5 The Lake" has been the property of Todd Nixon-led Sticks Media since early 2025. Now, that transaction is unwinding, as Nixon will not proceed with payments tied to the deal.

The broadcast licensee founded by Ivan Gois has sold all of its operational AM radio stations in the Constitution State. This facility, silent under a FCC STA since February, is now being sold. It will leave Gois with properties solely in Massachusetts.

Introducing Bradley Smith, Chief Executive Officer of Carlsbad, Calif.-based Wise Support Services. He's poised to become the owner of a noncommercial FM radio station in Bethany, Mo., based on a Form 314 filing awaiting FCC regulatory approval.

It is presently dark under FCC special temporary authority, and has been since February 28, when its owner blamed financial issues for the ability to keep the lights on. Now this dormant AM radio station serving Yuma, Ariz., is poised to return to life with its sale.

They are a Station of the Cross — for now. That's because this broadcast ministry has agreed to a deal that will see a Massachusetts broadcaster acquire the AM with an FM translator serving a city between Worcester and Hartford, Conn.

Travel to Mackinac Island and nearby Mackinaw City, Mich., and you'll be able to tune to a Class C2 FM with 50kw that today is one-half of a pair of radio stations offering Classic Hits under "The Bridge" branding. Soon, this FM will be paving another path.

A Class A FM and its Class C 1kw AM sibling, which has an FM translator companion, are poised to see an ownership shift, as Samuel Kennedy has brought in a business partner that is assuming a 50% stake in the parent organization of "Front Porch Radio for Southern Middle Tennessee."

An FM translator serving the Texas city of Waco is about to land in the hands of a new licensee, thanks to an asset purchase agreement submitted to the FCC for its regulatory approval.

A prominent regional institution of higher learning in the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton area of Pennsylvania has agreed to sell its NPR Member radio station to the entity that owns and operates the PBS affiliate serving this region of the Keystone State. It converts a seven-year LMA into full ownership.