Radio and Television Transactions

In the San Joaquin Valley of California, "Merced's Rock Station" is a 250-watt FM translator licensed to Los Banos, rebroadcasting a Class B expanded-band AM in Merced. Now, the FM translator is being sold. The buyer? The company that in October 2019 acquired that Merced AM.

In December 1946, a 5kw AM serving the San Jose, Calif., area signed on the air. Today, it uses 4 towers at night and 1 during the day to serve the San Francisco Bay Area's southern half. Now, it is poised to no longer be the sibling of Country KRTY-FM.

In December 1947, a Class D AM signed on the air in Niagara Falls, N.Y. It boasts a signal that covers much of Buffalo, to the south, and Niagara Falls and St. Catharines, Ontario, in Canada. Today, it airs a Full Service format -- at least for now. The station has just been sold.

Travel to the southeast of Canton, Ohio, and you'll find a Class A noncomm owned and operated until now by Denny and Marge Hazen. They're now saying goodbye to their non-secular FM. The buyer? The second-biggest owner of radio stations in the nation.

For years, a Class C3 FM serving the Lexington, Ky., listening area has been operated via the Aloha Station Trust II -- today administered by Barry Drake, formerly of Backyard Broadcasting. It's just been sold.

Travel south of Nashville toward Huntsville, Ala., and you'll whiz past the small town of Cornersville, Tenn. Here, a Class A FM is being transferred to a broadcast ministry in the latest transaction to involve a non-secular assignee.

In December 2019, a 100kw station best-remembered for its Top 40 format as "The Peak" signed off the air. Its owner took the station dark under a Silent STA as it is selling all of its assets. Now, the FM is poised to return to life under a new owner.

At 3:50pm Eastern on Monday, March 2, a radio station that was once one of the world's most-listened-to facilities was officially handed to its new owner. Cumulus Media no longer owns WABC-AM in New York, and its new owner took to the airwaves to confirm he's closed on the purchase of the News/Talker.

Since 1950, Furniture City Broadcasting Corp. has served the Michigan city of Grand Rapids with Christian-themed programming. Doing so involves a heritage AM, and a Class B FM at 102.9 MHz. The FM has just been sold, to a much bigger non-secular operator.

In 1956, Dorothy Laird launched a Class B AM radio station in the Wisconsin town of Waupaca. In 1967, she delved into the budding riches of FM radio by adding a Class A FM in Waupaca. The stations were handed to her son, Bill Laird, who has continued to run them and holds a CP for a new FM radio station in the town. Now, Laird is retiring, and he's agreed to sell the properties.

Two years and five months after Tom Dobrez agreed to sell a Class C2 FM in Avon, Colo., and a Class C1 FM in Vail, Colo., the operator of CoolRadioStreaming.com is moving forward with a sale of his remaining facility. The buyer? The entity that grabbed those two properties from Dobrez' Cool Radio LLC in September 2017.

On January 8, Monte Spearman's High Plains Radio Network agreed to sell an AM, an FM, and an FM translator to a broadcast ministry. On Feb. 12, an amendment to that agreement was filed with the Commission. It's just been posted to the FCC database and includes the original APA, which contains new details about the deal.

Travel between metropolitan Montréal and Burlington, Vt., and you'll find the quaint town of Saint Albans. Here, a silent AM licensed for 1kw during daylight and 107 watts at night, which has an FM translator assigned to it, is being handed to a new licensee. It effectively ends months of planning from Tiffany and Eric Miller, who had revived the long-dormant operation in mid-2019.

Vicente Delgado has gained prominence in the Hispanic evangelical community as a Pastor devoted to spreading the word of Jesucristo through the Nueva Vida/New Life Assembly located in Grand Prairie, Tex. Now, Nueva Vida is set to bring some new life to a low-power FM serving such nearby communities as Arlington and Euless, Tex.

A silent 100-watt Class A noncommercial FM radio station offering "The truth heard in Black and White" is trading hands. It marks the end of ownership by Calvary Radio Network, and this facility's forthcoming resurrection as a simulcast partner of a Linton, Ind.-based radio station.