Radio and Television Transactions

The owner and operator of a group of radio stations serving Grand Junction, Colo., is preparing to bring another FM option to local listeners. It will do so by way of an FM translator it has just acquired, and has a Construction Permit for a facility giving it full-market coverage.

An AM/FM combo acquired in 1997 is being spun to another Missouri-based broadcasting company, a 50/50 partnership between Dean Brueseke and Robert Scott. Why is the sale happening? The seller was just sold to a major MVPD provider, which doesn't want the stations.

Just east of Wenatchee, Wash., are the towns of Ephrata and Moses Lake -- now home to many Mexican and Central American immigrants working in agricultural jobs. It explains why Bustos Media has had a presence here. Now, however, it is handing an FM translator to a religious operator.

The licensee of a Class A radio station the Lone Star State has agreed to sell the station. In return, it is getting a construction permit for a new radio station some 40 miles to the northwest.

It's another quiet day for media deals, as thousands of baseball fans in the Nation's Capital prepare to cheer on the Washington Nationals this evening in Game One of the 2019 World Series. With baseball fever across D.C., TRANSACTIONS TODAY has just a handful of STA requests and deal closings to report.

It's another quiet day for TRANSACTIONS TODAY, with two STAs and a change in a station's licensee to report. In the latter situation, estate planning is shifting ownership of a Class C AM outside of Richmond, Va., from one entity to another.

Alfredo Plascencia has built an empire of regional Mexican radio stations across the Golden State through his Oxnard-based Lazer Communications. At present, privately held Lazer is the licensee of 18 stations, with the Inland Empire its biggest market ... until now.

In mid-May, the company founded and led by Amador Bustos agreed to purchase an FM serving Moses Lake, Wash., a Latino agricultural workers’ hub. The station won’t be changing its language of service, and his company has just closed on the acquisition, brokered by Kalil & Co.

Carolyn Becker-led Riverfront Broadcasting at the end of 2018 engaged in a transaction that gave it full ownership of two FMs and an AM in Iowa. Now, Riverfront is parting ways with one of those FMs, in a deal involving a husband and wife ownership team.

Go west of Clemson, S.C., and you'll find a broadcast tower in the town of Seneca home to SummitMedia's WHZT-FM and, additionally, a silent 25kw FM licensed to Georgia-Carolina Radio Company. This FM is trading hands, with the assignee set to bring the station back to life as a noncomm.

An indie and alternative rock station using VHF Channel 6, with a low-power signal, to cover the city of Redding, Ca., has been sold. It's a "Hella" deal. Really.

Since 1997, Jamie McKibbin has been an ubiquitous presence at a group of Michigan radio stations to the west of Ann Arbor. Now, McKibbin, who has been GM of the stations and hosts a popular weekly outdoors show, is becoming the stations' owner. We now know how much he's paying for them.

Until now, listeners to nationally distributed CCM network WAY-FM in Portland, Ore., relied on a Class C1 facility emanating from a tower due east of the metro, toward Hood River. A co-channel FM translator in Forest Park went dark. That problem has just ended, thanks in part to Kalil & Co.

On April 25, former NYSBA leader Joe Reilly agreed to sell an AM station and its FM translator to a newly formed partnership tied to Border Media and a couple who own stations in the Plattsburgh area. Reilly is now selling this partnership another AM/translator offering.

At 92.3 MHz on the dial, a Class C2 FM serving the Lake Livingston area to the north of the Houston metropolitan area had been pumping out Classic Rock tunes as “The Eagle.” That changed in early June, thanks to a pair of transactions, one of which has just closed. As a result, the KSBJ empire has grown again.