Radio and Television Transactions

Travel north on U.S. 101 from the Golden Gate Bridge, and you'll find yourself in Mendocino County, home to vineyards and such towns as Willits. Here, a Class B FM reaching Laytonville and Ukiah and its FM translator covering rural, coastal Fort Bragg are being transferred by Guilford Dye to another group he leads.

Three Rivers Media may be named for the three rivers of Pittsburgh where its shareholders call home, but its a licensee that's been committed to bringing hyper-local radio to Wythe County, Va., and its surrounding region.  Soon, however, the three radio brands Three Rivers operates will be in the hands of a new owner.

A pair of FM radio stations, one serving Fort Wayne and the other reaching South Bend and Elkhart, are being sold. The Fort Wayne FM was once owned by Art Angotti, and later by Russ Oasis and, after that, Adams Radio Group. The Elkhart FM was previously a Federated Media station. Pending FCC approval, an entity committed to "bringing Christ to the world through media" will become the new owner of the FMs.

A Class A FM serving a Rocky Mountain community as a noncommercial home for Classic Country music is about to undergo a programming shift, and is poised to relocate to an FM translator that also serves this small town. Why? Educational Media Foundation is agreeing to a facility swap.

Edge Spectrum is divesting three properties. The buyer is a privately held TV station owner which enjoys shared services agreements with five different companies for some of the stations it doesn't operate itself.

From an FM radio station in Twin Falls, Idaho, a Christian broadcast ministry broadcasts talk and teaching programming across more than 375 signals across the U.S.  Now, that stable of stations is about to get a little bit larger for CSN Radio.

A digital low-powered television station licensed to Columbus, Ga., is changing hands.  And, it is indeed a deal soundly approved by the "Word of God."

It's a 1,000-watt AM at 1490 kHz with 1 tower covering the city of Jasper, Ga., to the far north of metropolitan Atlanta. And, it is being acquired by a Gorilla. Sort of.

For the last decade, Bill Christian has been a key figure in the build-out, and profit-generating sale, of low-power television stations in such markets as Lafayette, Ind. Now, through his "Milachi Media," Christian is signing off on the sale of a LPTV property licensed to Westmoreland, N.H. The buyer is the licensee funded by the creator of the 5-Hour Energy beverage.

The MMTC Broadcasting LLC arm of the Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council has closed on its sale of an FM radio station that it received via a donation from the owner of Deportes y Música Comunicaciones — one of the first licensees to petition the FCC for 100% foreign ownership.

A proposed transaction that saw the arrival of a new licensee for a low-power television station in the Lone Star State was cancelled by the FCC. On Wednesday, new information was brought to RBR+TVBR's attention as to the circumstances leading to the Commission's decision.

American Christian Television Services in mid-July reached an agreement to sell its low-power digital TV station licensed to the city of Defiance, Ohio. Now, closing is imminent, as the FCC has given its blessing to the transaction.

A ministry that exists "to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ" has decided to part ways with a Class A FM radio station on the noncommercial band serving small towns due south of Columbus, Georgia; and four FM translators in other parts of the U.S. Only, Radio By Grace is not selling them and is instead donating them to another religious broadcast entity.

In August 2022, BAAZ Broadcasting Corp. emerged as the buyer for expanded band Class B KNTS-AM in Seattle. The transaction closed one month ago. Now, a Petition for Declaratory Ruling has been submitted to the FCC seeking approval of a stock sale that would give 100% ownership of BAAZ to Sukhdev Dhillon — a Canadian citizen.

As of today, a 100kw Class C1 FM in rural Minnesota, a 1kw Class C AM sibling, and an FM translator simulcasting the AM station, are wholly owned by Border Broadcasting LP and serve towns some two hours from Winnipeg and more than 5 1/2 hours from the Twin Cities. Pending FCC approval, a change in the ownership structure will be had.