Radio and Television Transactions

When Jeff Warshaw engineered the merger of his Connoisseur Media with Alpha Media, it was largely assumed that he'd spin stations deemed non-essential. On August 28, Connoisseur confirmed the sale of four properties in small Minnesota cities to a "hometown" buyer. Now, deal details have surfaced.

Florida's "Nature Coast" is a rapidly growing area due north of Tampa and west of Ocala. Pending FCC approval, it will also be the home of the latest radio stations owned by a rapidly growing licensee based in Winter Park, Fla. That's thanks to a transaction that sees Mark Jorgenson serve as the seller's broker.

He's known in Wabash, Indiana for his presence at an FM known for "good time rock & roll" that in the Noon hour on Tuesday was playing "Teenager in Love" by Dion and the Belmonts. Now, Class A WJOT-FM is poised to become siblings to a pair of AM radio stations and an FM translator in a small Hoosier city to the south.

It's a media company comprised of members of the famed Ingstad family, long-known as broadcasters in the Upper Midwest. Pending FCC approval, it will become the new owner of an AM with an FM translator and its full-power FM sibling serving the city of Jamestown, N. Dakota.

An asset purchase agreement submitted to the FCC for its regulatory approval is poised to bring Roger Bouldin's broadcasting company ownership of two AM, two FM translators and one full-power FM radio station serving a portion of Virginia's Appalachia.

Vincent Klepac has signed off on an asset sale agreement that sees a 4kw Class A serving an area due south of Salisbury and Ocean City, Md., wind up in the hands of a "Miracle" of a media operation offering two 24/7 music formats via syndication.

A television station licensed to Cunningham Broadcasting but operated by Sinclair Inc. via a Joint Sales Agreement will soon become a Sinclair O&O, creating a "triopoly" in the Silver State's second-largest market. At the same time, this station's sibling in Elko, Nev., is also being sold by Cunningham to Sinclair.

A pair of transactions have been consummated that will, upon regulatory approval, see the transfer of radio broadcasting facilities from one member of the Michael family to another. The deals are in Pennsylvania.

The home for what is today "FOX Sports Rapid City" is poised to join the stable of stations licensed to the radio broadcasting company led by Yankton, S.D.-based Becker. With the deal's expected closing, Riverfront Broadcasting will have six audio brands serving the South Dakota market.

An entity headed by President Richard Dalton, has reached an agreement to purchase a facility at 88.9 MHz in the California town of Alturas. Paperwork has been submitted to the Commission seeking its regulatory approval for the transfer of control of this noncommercial FM station.

As 2025 neared its completion, digital media veteran Scott Swanson agreed to purchase a trio of full-power FM radio stations and four AM properties, each with FM translators to boost consumer access to the audio brands. Now, the transaction brokered by longtime dealmaker George Kimble has closed.

A Class D AM radio station and its Class C3 FM sibling that serves a group of cities due east of Birmingham are being sold. The buyer? Look no further than Joseph Vincent Earley.

In October 2021, SummitMedia completed its acquisition of an AM radio station serving the Wichita, Ks., market. Then came an engineering Special Temporary Authority authorization, several extensions, and in January 2026 a silent STA request. Now, a return to life for this facility is on the way — under new ownership.

For many years, radio reception across the small towns of the Catskill Mountains relied on access to big-signal stations from Albany, N.Y. Then came locally based signals. Now, one of them — a noncommercial facility with a variety of music programs surrounding such shows as Democracy Now! — is heading to a new owner.

Four years after acquiring an FM with a 50kw signal covering Munsing and Escanaba, Mich., Aurora Media and its "906 Delta" licensee has agreed to sell the station.