Radio and Television Transactions

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.

Go east of downtown Memphis, and you'll find Shelby Farms Park. Right next to the park is the transmitter for a Class C2 noncommercial serving the market with a 24/7 jazz format. It's a service provided by a university that, like several others in recent years, decided to sell its radio station. In this case, however, jazz will live on, thanks to a partnership between the university and a local institution.

The Class A branded as "Toledo's Only Independent Country Music Station" is about to change owners. When the transaction is complete, that slogan should still hold true for this "Luckey" FM serving such Ohio municipalities as Bowling Green.

The Latin love song-focused "Vida" radio brand serving Atlanta for six years has formally become an online-only offering. Paperwork filed at the FCC on Tuesday shows its broadcast homes — a Class D AM and an accompanying FM translator — have been sold. As of February 3, the new owner has installed new programming: English-language talk shows.

In March 2019, High Plains Radio Network completed its purchase of an FM licensed to Farwell, Tex., serving the Clovis, N. Mex., area. and an AM in Amarillo, Tex., with an FM translator as part of a six-asset acquisition from Tejas Broadcasting. Now, the entity headed by Monte Spearman is spinning the AM, FM and translator to a broadcast ministry.

For much of the 1980s, WKHI was a formidable Top 40 station on the Delmarva Peninsula. It disappeared in 1993 but wasn't forgotten by an operator that brought back those call letters on Jan. 30, 2019, to a Class A facility at 94.9 MHz. Branding that matched the old WKHI was used, along with a Classic Hits format. It didn't work. Now, this new WKHI is being sold.

Former broadcast ministry Edgewater Broadcasting, led by Dennis Clounch, has been winding down its operations and selling off assets for several months. The parting of an FM translator in Peru, Ill., is only the latest asset sale for the Twin Falls, Idaho-based licensee.