Radio and Television Transactions

As January 2026 ended, the FCC formally granted the transfer of control of the FOX affiliate serving Florida viewers from Port Charlotte to Marco Island. Now, the transaction has formally closed, making it the first of two notable asset sales for The E.W. Scripps Co.

The sale of four radio stations serving the small cities of Luverne, Minn., and Madison, S.D., are now officially licensed to Christensen Broadcasting. That's according to Kalil & Co., the broker of record in the deals involving the company founded and led by Jeff Warshaw.

Three radio brands serving the Gadsden, Ala., listening area to the northeast of Birmingham have been placed in the hands of a court-appointed administrator overseeing the estate of the late licensee, who passed away on January 18.

A Gainesville-headquartered radio station ownership group that's swiftly expanding across the Sunshine State struck a deal to purchase a group of stations owned by Hall Communications. We now have the terms of the transactions, including insight on the price MARC Radio Group paid to enter Lakeland-Winter Haven.

It's a 1kw Class C AM with one tower serving Oregon's state capital, and pending regulatory approval, it will be under new ownership.  What does this mean for fans of vintage rock 'n' roll from the 1960s?

A Class A FM radio station serving a portion of Virginia's Appalachia region bordering Kentucky has been sold. Pending regulatory approval, it puts this facility in the hands of Somerset Educational Broadcasting Foundation. That's a bit different from the seller's original plan, which involved a sale in 2024 that never closed.

As RBR+TVBR was first to report in December, Gray Media successfully reached a deal to purchase a full-power television station in the Volunteer State in a transaction that saw brokerage Kalil & Co. represent the seller, Bahakel Communications. That deal, involving a Jackson, Tenn., property, has now closed.

In September 2024, RBR+TVBR shared the news that a 6kw Class A FM serving a town between Austin and College Station, Tex., had been acquired by Cowboy Broadcasting Network. At the time, Cowboy was a 50/50 partnership between two business partners. Now, one is buying out the other.

It's a mini-FM radio station serving Virginia's Tidewater region, and until now it has been licensed to the entity focused on religious programming led by Nancy Epperson, of the family linked to Salem Media. Pending Commission approval, this FM translator will be in the hands of a new owner.

Roger Holler is known across the Sunshine State for his ownership of MARC Radio. Until now, MARC operated six radio brands in Gainesville-Ocala and three stations in the fast-growing Space Coast region. Now, it can count five audio brands serving the Treasure Coast of Florida as owned-and-operated properties.

Steamboat Springs, Colo., is world renown for its ski slopes. It is also the home of a seven-station radio station group that also includes five FM translators. Pending FCC approval, there will be a new owner for this "blizzard" of properties.

It is a spoken word information hub for St. Johns County, Florida, serving the historic city of St. Augustine. Pending regulatory approval, this 500-watt AM from a single tower with an FM translator at 102.1 MHz will soon be in the hands of a new owner.

It is now known how much NRG Media will be earning from two sales, one involving a five-station deal with Usher Media and another that sees an FM become a Nebraska Public Media noncomm. An LMA went into effect on Tuesday for the properties Alan Usher's group is obtaining from Mary Quass's company.

A division of Light of Life Ministries Inc. focused on broadcast media since 1994, thanks to the donation of an Augusta, Me., AM radio station, has moved forward with the sale of a noncommercial FM with a Construction Permit for a Class C3 signal serving cities to the north of Bangor and Orono.

An asset purchase agreement has been filed with the FCC for its approval that sees a 1kw Class C AM serving Eastern Washington's largest metropolitan area change hands. Once the deal is consummated, Keith Shipman will officially expand his equity interest in radio stations to another market in the Pacific Northwest.