Radio and Television Transactions

It's a station that maintains a post-spectrum auction repack channel sharing agreement with the market's Azteca América affiliate and a facility recently taken over by New York-based RNN. And, this San Francisco Bay Area facility has just been sold by NRJ TV, which scored a multi-million payday by giving up this facility's own spectrum.

Chapparal Broadcasting has decided to part ways with an AM with an FM translator in Bozeman, Mont., an asset purchase agreement dated Sept. 24 and filed with the Commission on Oct. 7 shows.

The second-oldest radio station in Pensacola, Fla., is changing hands. What does that mean for listeners of Christian Contemporary non-comm network "WOW Radio"?

In December 2016, Awaken Broadcasting agreed to acquire a Bristol, Va., radio station for $350,000. Less than four years later, this AM and its associated FM translator are heading to a new owner.

When it comes to independent radio broadcasters in major U.S. markets, Saul Levine is one of the last men standing. His Mt. Wilson FM Broadcasters continues to own and operate properties in Los Angeles, and until now his station roster included a silent AM serving the Monterey Bay area. Levine is now donating the facility.

In Kalamazoo, Mich., there's a Class A FM licensed to the city's public school district. In recent years, it had been "The Beat of Kalamazoo," offering Rhythmic Hip-Hop titles to the city from student air personalities. All of that changed in January. Now, 10 months later, the long-expected sale of this station is transpiring. The buyer? A big institute of higher learning.

"Mile High Sports" has served as the market's home for Colorado State Rams athletics and for the recently launched Bet R Network. Soon, that wager-focused sports talk on its AM home will soon be replaced by Spanish-language voices, as part of "ESNE," the operator of a non-secular Hispanic network. The FM translator? Another buyer is paying a hefty price.

In June 2017, a 45-year radio industry veteran who serves as president of Mercury Capital Partners agreed to pay $2.3 million for a trio of AM radio stations serving some of the nation’s biggest markets. Now, he is selling one of them -- a Class B AM serving Nassau County, N.Y.; Southern Connecticut; and Monmouth County, N.J., thanks to its unique signal pattern.

With Black Information Network (BIN) quickly seeking to establish itself as a national voice for the African American community, iHeartMedia has swiftly moved forward to fill some key coverage holes in the top Black DMAs. On Sept. 24, it quietly moved forward with an arrangement made public Oct. 1 by the FCC that saw Kalil & Co. represent iHeart in a Miami deal.

A pocket of Northwest Wisconsin that's home to two major wood window and door manufacturing companies, and an Owens Corning millwork manufacturing plant has attracted the interest of Mike Oberg. The radio broadcasting company he has a 50/50 partnership in has opted to purchase an AM/FM combo dedicated to serving Rusk County.

Until March 2017, Hector Villalobos owned and operated three FMs and an AM serving agricultural areas tied to the Monterey-Salinas market. At the time, one of those FMs was sold. Now, Villalobos is selling the two other FM stations.

Gray Television has just agreed to purchase three LPTVs in Georgia from Jeff Winemiller's Lowcountry 34 Media. Why would Gray make the deal for the stations? Improving the over-the-air consumption of Gray-owned full-power TV stations nearby is the answer.

With a Form 314 pending that will seek the FCC's approval of a $2.65 billion acquisition of ION Media by The E.W. Scripps Co., the Commission's CDBS was devoid of any filings on Friday. With no new station sales in the database, we instead turn to silent STA requests. One of the STA requests involves Educational Media Foundation.

A Class C1 Classic Rocker has across the years served as a dominant radio station across a patch of the Rocky Mountains in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico. However, terrain kept the station's signal from going east of the peaks. That's now changed, to a small extent.

Its mission until now is to use the power of Positive Christian Music to encourage believers and communicate the love of God. That will continue, as a Missouri not-for-profit broadcast operation has exercised its option to purchase the FM station, which holds a Construction Permit for a Class B signal covering a swath of rural downstate Illinois.