Radio and Television Transactions

A pair of AM radio stations and an FM translator serving towns straddling the border between North Dakota and South Dakota are poised to change hands, pending FCC regulatory approval of the deal.

It must sign off after dark to protect a Class A AM licensed to Charlotte and at present offers religious programming to its city of license in Kentucky, with an all-important FM translator bringing 24/7 service to this Bluegrass State city. Soon, pending FCC approval, these facilities will have new ownership.

A Class A FM serving the capital of Mississippi is being acquired by the broadcasting company already using the facility to bring "TALK-N West Tennessee" to the market.

A Class C 1kw AM radio station licensed to East Liverpool, Ohio with a pair of FM translators is poised to become the property of a Bellaire, Ohio, media company led by Cody Barack. That's according to an asset purchase agreement submitted with the FCC for its regulatory approval by the buyer's legal counsel, Allan G. Moskowitz.

It bills itself as a travelers' information station offering information on items of interest to those visiting the Space Coast of Florida. But, this Class B AM with an FM translator has fallen on hard times. Its owner has unpaid debt to the FCC. To resolve the matter, the facilities are being sold to a parochial operator.

A radio/digital/social/video media company focused on La Grande and Burns, Ore., and the Columbia Basin has agreed to grab an FM translator serving the community of Union, Ore. The seller is an educational institution.

Across the Pacific Northwest, Alexandra Communications, under the direction of Thomas and Cheryl Hodgins, has operated a collection of AMs, FMs and FM translators in a variety of locales. Now, they're preparing to take ownership of a pair of AM stations in rural eastern Oregon.

A 1,000-watt Class C AM radio station serving Fort Smith, Ark., is poised to become the property of a company that shares its name with a popular chocolate candy snack. That's because Pharis Broadcasting is abandoning "Fort Smith's Straight Talk" by handing the "Marshal" to a new boss.

More than 2 1/2 years after a lease deal gave the company control of the properties, paperwork is being submitted with the FCC seeking regulatory approval of a deal that would see Norsan Media finally take on ownership of an FM and an FM translator serving Spanish-speaking audiences in Austin.

A family-owned, women-run radio broadcasting company with stations in five markets has completed the sale of its tower assets in one New England market to a Dutchess County, N.Y.-based company known as a developer and operator of communications tower facilities.

In December 2024, RBR+TVBR first shared the news that Forever Media, the Lynn Deppen-led radio station owner, was spinning a Lancaster, Pa., FM translator to the operator behind Word FM, a Christian-themed noncommercial entity. Now, a second deal has been struck between the two parties.

He's the man behind Rochester, Ill.-based Hart Media Group, and he's just struck a deal that will add to the company's stable of two AM and six FM radio stations serving an area of downstate Illinois to the east of Springfield.

A presently dark FM translator covering the Northwest Arkansas communities of Springdale and Fayetteville is being sold to the entity behind a broadcast operation devoted to serving the fast-growing Spanish-speaking community in an area known as the corporate headquarters of Wal-Mart.

Despite a six-month low in overall media and telecom transaction value, radio emerged as a bright spot in February, driving six of the ten largest deals. That's according to new data from S&P Global Market Intelligence supplied to Streamline Publishing's Radio Ink and Radio + Television Business Report.

A Class C3 FM News/Talk station with a lineup of syndicated hosts including Clay Travis & Buck Sexton and Sean Hannity will soon be in the hands of new owners, as George Flinn Jr. has decided to sell this property due north of the Tampa-St. Petersburg metropolitan area to the party operating the FM since 2010.