Radio and Television Transactions

A television station licensed to Cunningham Broadcasting but operated by Sinclair Inc. via a Joint Sales Agreement will soon become a Sinclair O&O, creating a "triopoly" in the Silver State's second-largest market. At the same time, this station's sibling in Elko, Nev., is also being sold by Cunningham to Sinclair.

A pair of transactions have been consummated that will, upon regulatory approval, see the transfer of radio broadcasting facilities from one member of the Michael family to another. The deals are in Pennsylvania.

The home for what is today "FOX Sports Rapid City" is poised to join the stable of stations licensed to the radio broadcasting company led by Yankton, S.D.-based Becker. With the deal's expected closing, Riverfront Broadcasting will have six audio brands serving the South Dakota market.

An entity headed by President Richard Dalton, has reached an agreement to purchase a facility at 88.9 MHz in the California town of Alturas. Paperwork has been submitted to the Commission seeking its regulatory approval for the transfer of control of this noncommercial FM station.

As 2025 neared its completion, digital media veteran Scott Swanson agreed to purchase a trio of full-power FM radio stations and four AM properties, each with FM translators to boost consumer access to the audio brands. Now, the transaction brokered by longtime dealmaker George Kimble has closed.

A Class D AM radio station and its Class C3 FM sibling that serves a group of cities due east of Birmingham are being sold. The buyer? Look no further than Joseph Vincent Earley.

In October 2021, SummitMedia completed its acquisition of an AM radio station serving the Wichita, Ks., market. Then came an engineering Special Temporary Authority authorization, several extensions, and in January 2026 a silent STA request. Now, a return to life for this facility is on the way — under new ownership.

For many years, radio reception across the small towns of the Catskill Mountains relied on access to big-signal stations from Albany, N.Y. Then came locally based signals. Now, one of them — a noncommercial facility with a variety of music programs surrounding such shows as Democracy Now! — is heading to a new owner.

Four years after acquiring an FM with a 50kw signal covering Munsing and Escanaba, Mich., Aurora Media and its "906 Delta" licensee has agreed to sell the station.

It operates a trio of FM frequencies on the reserved noncommercial band serving small communities between Eureka and Santa Rosa as the NPR Member for this swath of Northern California. Soon, it will have an added boost to its coverage area designed to give those in picturesque Willits a clear signal for "KXY&Z."

An AM radio station serving Fairfield County, Conn., and its FM translators licensed to Stamford and a community on New York's Long Island are being sold by Sacred Heart University. What does this mean for the Classical music presently emanating from these three broadcast facilities?

WAY FM's West Palm Beach FM home is a big one, with a signal audible from Indian River County in the north to Interstate 595 in the south. Getting into Miami has been a challenge due to a co-channel Class A FM owned by Florida International University. That problem has just been resolved.

An asset purchase agreement has been finalized and submitted to the FCC for regulatory approval that would see the transfer of a pair of FM radio stations and their AM sibling in the Hoosier State end up in the hands of an Indiana-based entity controlled by Scott Huber.

Wichita-headquartered Murfiin Media, through its My Town Media unit, is signing off on a deal that gives it an FM with a Construction Permit for a 50kw signal capable of receiving Wichita from the south.

It is a North Texas non-secular audio brand known for “Encouraging Music … Words of Hope.” It enjoys a booming 100kw Class C signal audible across the Dallas-Fort Worth market. Yet, that's not enough for First Dallas Media, as it has agreed to purchase an FM translator in Big D from Salem Media.