Radio and Television Transactions

Introducing Bradley Smith, Chief Executive Officer of Carlsbad, Calif.-based Wise Support Services. He's poised to become the owner of a noncommercial FM radio station in Bethany, Mo., based on a Form 314 filing awaiting FCC regulatory approval.

It is presently dark under FCC special temporary authority, and has been since February 28, when its owner blamed financial issues for the ability to keep the lights on. Now this dormant AM radio station serving Yuma, Ariz., is poised to return to life with its sale.

They are a Station of the Cross — for now. That's because this broadcast ministry has agreed to a deal that will see a Massachusetts broadcaster acquire the AM with an FM translator serving a city between Worcester and Hartford, Conn.

Travel to Mackinac Island and nearby Mackinaw City, Mich., and you'll be able to tune to a Class C2 FM with 50kw that today is one-half of a pair of radio stations offering Classic Hits under "The Bridge" branding. Soon, this FM will be paving another path.

A Class A FM and its Class C 1kw AM sibling, which has an FM translator companion, are poised to see an ownership shift, as Samuel Kennedy has brought in a business partner that is assuming a 50% stake in the parent organization of "Front Porch Radio for Southern Middle Tennessee."

An FM translator serving the Texas city of Waco is about to land in the hands of a new licensee, thanks to an asset purchase agreement submitted to the FCC for its regulatory approval.

A prominent regional institution of higher learning in the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton area of Pennsylvania has agreed to sell its NPR Member radio station to the entity that owns and operates the PBS affiliate serving this region of the Keystone State. It converts a seven-year LMA into full ownership.

He's widely recognized for his role as CEO of Geo Broadcast Solutions, the broadcast tech firm offering MaxxCasting and GeoCasting to FM stations across the U.S. He's also the head of limited liability company Sky Media LLC, which is moving forward with the sale of a FM radio station serving a portion of the Silver State.

A noncommercial FM radio station serving tiny Cedarville, Calif., on the northeastern border of the Golden State facing Nevada and just south of Oregon, has been offering local listeners the "Rhythm & News" programming of Jefferson Public Radio. This will soon change, as this facility is being sold by its not-for-profit licensee. 

In September 2025, RBR+TVBR first reported on a transaction that saw Relevant Radio acquire WLAT-AM 910 and W269DE at 101.7 MHz in New Britain, Conn. That left the seller with a remaining AM and its companion FM translator in Manchester, Conn. Those properties are now being sold by Gois Broadcasting of Connecticut.

He's the man behind The Video House, a Pittsburgh-based video production and editing shop he's operated since 1982. He's also the individual behind a licensee that is agreeing to purchase a low-power TV station in an Alabama college town.

The individual heading the group selling a LPTV property in Fort Smith, Ark., is the same individual leading the entity that's agreed to buy the station. What's happening is simple: Larry Morton has struck a deal to transfer, for a price, this LPTV property from a non-profit group to a commercial operation.

Across the New York Tri-State Area, Erick Salgado has established himself as a key purveyor of Hispanic evangelical radio programming through a collection of stations licensed to Cantico Nuevo Ministry. Now, he's expanding the broadcast ministry's footprint to Sussex County, N.J.

The final month of the second quarter has begun, and for the low-power television station licensee known as HC2 Broadcasting, a change in majority control is in the works. Pending FCC approval, approximately 75% of HC2's ownership will be held by an entity led by CEO Kyle Kiser and founded by the man behind Dish.

On May 13, RBR+TVBR first shared the news that Connoisseur Media had agreed to part ways with a group of radio stations in Millbank and Watertown, S.D., respectively. On Monday (6/1), the asset purchase agreement was submitted as part of a LMS filing seeking FCC regulatory approval of the sale.