Radio and Television Transactions

Todd Bartley’s Pioneer Sports Productions is converting an LMA to an ownership situation with one AM station and buying all the stock in another to create an AM duopoly in the Williamsport PA market.

The good news – the seller of KRVA-AM Cockrell Hills TX will earn more than it paid for it a couple of years back. The bad news – the new price is only about half what it sold for earlier in this young millennium.

KPTY-FM serves the Beaumont-Port Arthur Nielsen Audio market, but it will soon be doing so for a new owner. According to brokerage Kalil and Co., it’s being sold by a Univision subsidiary

Public Radio Capital often brokers deals for noncommercial broadcast facilities, but in the case of WMEX-FM Edgartown MA, it’s the buyer.

Radio group Opus Broadcasting will be down to a pair of Louisiana clusters once its deal to pull up stakes and exit Tallahassee FL makes it to the finish line. The buyer is Red Hills Broadcasting LLC.

Prairie Winds Broadcasting is buying the six-station South Dakota radio group assembled by Armada Media. According to broker Kalil and Co., the buyer will continue to operate the cluster under the name Hub City Radio. Prairie Winds Broadcasting is buying the six-station South Dakota radio group assembled by Armada Media. According to broker Kalil and Co., the buyer will continue to operate the cluster under the name Hub City Radio.

Members of the Pearce family have stepped forward to help Larry Wilson’s L&L Broadcasting deal with a station overage on the South Carolina-Georgia coast by taking WGZO-FM Parris Island SC off of Wilson’s hands.