Radio News

Forever Media, which has engaged in the sale of radio stations in Delaware, Ohio and the Keystone State in recent times, has agreed to part ways with two more properties. Both stations have FM signals serving the "Mon Valley" region due south of Pittsburgh. Who's the buyer in this deal brokered by Michael J. Bergner?

There were fewer commercially licensed radio stations — significantly less, it turns out — at the end of the third quarter of 2026. It continues a trend seen in the previous two quarters, the latest Broadcast Station Totals report from the FCC shows.

The National Association of Broadcasters has unveiled the new look of its Radio Board and its associated executive committee, selecting a key Townsquare Media C-Suite leader as the first vice chair of the executive committee for the board overseeing member AM and FM station licensees.

The nation's foremost advocacy group representing U.S. Hispanic market advertising, marketing and PR professionals has submitted formal comments to the FCC sharing its concerns about what the future of the 100% minority-owned debtor-in-possession could mean to the nation's Latino populace.

Michael Bergner of Bergner & Co. was the exclusive broker on the transaction, first announced on July 9, which sees a 44kw Class B FM serving much of the San Francisco DMA ending up in the hands of America's largest purveyor of Christian Contemporary Music. The station's seller used the legal services of Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP.

A Class D AM radio station and its companion FM translator serving a Minnesota city southwest of St. Cloud will soon be wholly owned by the widow of her husband and business partner who held 50% interest in the station's controlling limited liability company. It's the result of his untimely death in September.

It's a collegiate athletic conference whose members today include public universities across the west coast of the U.S.  Now, fans of this conference's basketball teams — both men's and women's — and its football teams' crowning event can tune to audio coverage across affiliate stations produced and marketed by Compass Media Networks.

It holds a Construction Permit for an 1,100-watt FM signal from a tower site in Carroll Township, Pa., allowing it to serve Pennsylvania's state capital once it returns from a temporary silence under FCC authority. When that happens, the owner of this facility is expected to be Seven Mountains Media.

When Connoisseur Media agreed to merge with Alpha Media, it was understood that several Alpha properties deemed non-essential to the company led by Jeff Warshaw would be sold. Add a Class A facility serving a portion of Western Maryland and neighboring Waynesboro, Pa., to that divestment list.

It took roughly two months to pass muster with the FCC and reach a successful closing date. Now, K-LOVE Inc. is the owner of a pair of big-signal FM radio stations sold by Beasley Media Group, with a call sign change seen in Las Vegas.

Lakes Media Network's sellers in Southern Virginia and Northern North Carolina now have access to Townsquare Ignite's digital advertising platform. The six-station operation known for its vociferous interference fights from Raleigh-based FM translators is the latest broadcaster to team up with Townsquare.

Two longtime Empire State radio broadcasting companies are combining assets. The transaction, yet to be filed for FCC approval, comes as Ed Levine is retiring as Galaxy Media’s leader.

One year after Congress pulled federal dollars for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, California is putting its own money behind local newsrooms — and radio is included. Gov. Gavin Newsom approved the "Community NEWS Act," which establishes refundable tax credits for news outlets that retain staff journalists.

As 2021 began, Bill Gittler signed off on an agreement to sell his radio stations to Dimes Media, a licensee operating in California's Central Coast created from the Richard D. Buckley Trust. Now, Dimes, led by President/CEO Eric Dimes Fahnoe, is spinning these stations located in southern Monterey County.

"The Fan" will no longer be the official radio home of the National Basketball Association club that calls the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul home. And, in a move that makes the AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act's pending Senate vote ever more urgent, the team's new flagship is on the kHz band.