Radio and Television Transactions

An FM radio station serving Yazoo City from the nearby town of Belzoni and its Class D AM sibling, along with that station's FM translator, are heading to a new owner. Signing off on the purchase for the buyer are Members Michael Donovan Jr. and Emily Tillman.

Ravi Kapur has also been a buyer of broadcast TV stations, and he's now struck a deal to add a low-power TV facility in the state of Washington to his collection of assets. It's thanks to a deal with Jeff Winemiller.

The man who serves as technical director for MaxxConnect is signing off on the purchase of a collection of broadcast radio stations serving four Alabama towns and a Florida city from Williams Communications.

With the exception of his first year in Charlottesville, A. Wray Fitch has been an attorney with Gammon and Grange his entire legal career. He's also held attributable interest in radio stations, and that will soon include a Class B1 FM serving the lower portion of the Delmarva Peninsula.

Two AM radio stations, a full-power FM station, and two FM translators licensed to Ruidoso, N. Mex., are being sold, pending FCC approval. Signing off on the transaction is the woman serving as the independent executor of the estate of John B. Walton.

Randall Weiss is widely known for his role as a low-power television station entrepreneur through his Edge Spectrum operation. Now, Weiss is agreeing to part ways with a pair of LPTV stations serving two Idaho communities.

Jeff Winemiller and his Lowcountry 34 Media has been an active participant in low-power television station deals of late. Now, the South Carolina-based LLC has signed an agreement that will transfer control of three LPTVs in the Golden State to an entity led by the former KGO-7 reporter behind the creation of America's first-ever 24/7 South Asian-targeted television network.

Over the last two years, an entity led by Steven Lara has acquired a 1kw AM in Jasper, Ga., and its FM translator; a Myrtle Beach, S.C. property; and an AM with an FM translator located near Raleigh. Now, he's a buyer again, thanks to an agreement with Bill Shanks' group.

On December 14, 2023, a Houston-headquartered religious broadcasting ministry agreed to purchase a Class C3 FM serving a small Louisiana city to the north of Lake Charles. On Friday, that transaction closed, giving the KHCB Network entry into Bayou Country.

Nexstar Media Group today owns KSWB-TV, "FOX 5" in San Diego. But did you know there is another KSWB, a Class B AM with an FM translator serving a popular coastal getaway for those in the Portland, Ore., metropolitan area? Those radio offerings have just been sold.

A Class D AM with 1,000 watts during daylight hours and 27 watts at night from one tower is being sold to a local broadcasting company helmed by Robert Corlew.

Randy and Adrienne Weiss are widely known as the 50/50 owners of low-power television station licensee Edge Spectrum. Jeff Winemiller is equally renown for his leadership of LPTV licensee Lowcountry 34 Media. The two companies have just agreed to an asset swap.

No, we're not talking about the famed football coach. Rather, this Jimmy Johnson is the President of Johnson Broadcast Ventures, and he's agreeing to snap up a Class D daytime-only Full Service AM radio station in a community along the busy I-95 corridor due north of Roanoke Rapids, N.C.

Educational Media Foundation, the parent of the nationally distributed KLOVE and Air1 CCM formats, is now the owner of a collection of radio stations it agreed in March to acquire from Salem Media Group.

John Detz-led Visionary Related Entertainment is agreeing to sell its radio stations serving Maui to Larry Fuss's newly created Akamai Broadcasting of Hawaii LLC. Details of the transaction first surfaced on Sunday and were reported by Streamline Publishing's Radio Ink.