Radio and Television Transactions

A Class B FM serving the capital city of Ohio with rock 'n' roll programming, along with its "Jack FM" Class A sibling and "Easy" AM with a FM translator, are getting a little bit of an ownership twist. Not to worry, listeners: North American Broadcasting Company isn't making any changes to the station's programming.

Travel to the northwest of San Antonio and you'll reach beautiful Hill Country, an outdoors enthusiast's Lone Star paradise that even includes a vineyard or two. En route to this area is the city of Boerne. Here, a daytime-only AM and its FM translator are trading hands.

In early July, a special group of low-power television station permits were put up for sale by a Texas-based company that didn’t wish to build them by their rather unique deadline of 2023. Several buyers stepped forward. Now, the seller has found a buyer for two Construction Permits in the Monterey Bay region of California.

Kagan's Volker Moerbitz's assessment of the transactions landscape through June 30 is a striking one: the first half of 2021 registered a total deal volume that was less than the average monthly deal volume in any of the years between 2011 and 2019. If it weren't for the presence of brokers, how much worse would things have been?

In August 2017 the sale of a Class A FM serving a portion of Southwestern Virginia was sold. But, the entity that agreed to purchase it ran out of funds, so the deal was scrapped in 2019. Now, a new buyer has been found.

How much value does a 1,000-watt Class C AM serving half of a major metropolitan area have in 2021? For one Hispanic broadcaster in an area with a fast-growing populace of Spanish speakers, there's a lot of value -- as reflected in the price of a transaction seven years in the making that has just been filed with the Commission.

Ivis Alexis Padilla believes in the power of Hispanic radio. As such, the media company she manages has just struck a deal to purchase an AM radio station in Durham, N.C. It happens to be a station the Winston Salem-based broadcasting company led by Stuart Epperson Jr. acquired in December 2020 from Mark Janbakhsh's TBLC Media.

With a Class A signal blanketing Panama City Beach, Fla., this FM airs sports talk programming supplied by ESPN Radio. The affiliation has been in place since late June 2017. Now, it is being solidified as a LMA-to-buy opportunity is being executed more than four years later.

Jeff Winemiller and his Lowcountry 34 Media has engaged in a series of transactions in recent months involving low-power television stations. On Thursday, he moved forward with the sale of six LPTV construction permits. The buyer? The company co-led by Pat LaPlatney and Hilton Howell Jr.

The owner of an AM radio station with an FM translator has decided to sell the properties. How appropriate: the licensee's name is Sellers Broadcasting.

Former HC2 Holdings leader Philip Falcone has emerged as the head of a new entity seeking to build a collection of low-power TV stations as part of a spectrum play. He's signed off on several deals across 2021. Now, he's putting his signature on an asset purchase agreement involving a California property.

Until now, it has been a Spanish Adult Hits station under the branding “La Suavecita” and an affiliate of ESPN Deportes Radio. As RBR+TVBR first reported Monday, that’s about to change, with a different multicultural group as the new target audience. Now, details regarding the deal price in an Entravision deal are known.

Ken Kuenzie and Dennis Klautzer have made headlines in recent years for their radio broadcasting investments. They include five audio brands serving the Lake of the Ozarks resort region of Missouri, and their December 2017 decision to join Larry Fuss as an investor in a Kaua'i FM serving the Hawaiian island. Now, their company is set to bring the first over-the-air TV station for the Ozarks.

Not too many people may be familiar with Groveton, Tex. It's on the southern tip of Davy Crockett National Forest, some two hours north of central Houston. It also happens to be the home of a Class A FM, and North Texas Radio Group is readying to welcome it into its family.

Between Clarksville and Jackson, Tenn. is the town of Camden, perhaps best-known as the closest municipality to the Patsy Cline plane crash memorial. Camden is also home to an AM/FM combo and FM translator owned by an individual who recently passed away. Now, his stations are moving into a trust.