Radio and Television Transactions

The lone primary FM radio signal for "The Gamut" is being sold to the owner of "Key 103" and "Eagle 106.9," bringing another signal to Manning Broadcasting.

American Christian Television Services in mid-July reached an agreement to sell its low-power digital TV station licensed to the city of Defiance, Ohio. Now, closing is imminent, as the FCC has given its blessing to the transaction.

It is is one of Australia’s leading media companies, reaching more than 95% of the nation's population. It's just received a "non-binding indicative proposal" from another media company and its financiers to acquire it. What does this mean for Southern Cross Austereo?

Five years ago, the sale of a 450-watt Class A FM serving Pittsburg, Tex., a small town due north of Longview, was consummated. Now, the company that engineered that purchase is selling it for less than the price it paid for the facility.

A radio broadcasting company with stations overseen by Market Manager Reed Shaw and licensed to Dawn Shaw has agreed to part ways with its assets in two of the three Tennessee markets in which it currently operates.

From La Junta east to Granada, Country music fans have a 100kw FM to tune to for their favorite artists and local information. Pending FCC approval, this station will be under new ownership. The individual acquiring the FM is highly familiar with the property.

The ownership lineup of broadcast group Access.1 Communications Corporation is changing, and that will cost two over-sized radio clusters their grandfathered status. That means...

A New Jersey radio station is going from Blackstrap Broadcasting to Davidzon Radio

Two dormant AMs are picked up by a local broadcaster; Christian noncomm gets AM-FM Wisconsin pair

The future of an AM in the Valley of the Sun will not include a successful banker who made headlines in 2001 for his participation as an aviator in the London to Sydney Air Race. That's because this individual, and his wife, have lost ownership of this facility some 5 1/2 years after filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection.

Confirming rumors that a deal was imminent, Emmis Communications has agreed to sell its CHR/Rhythmic KPWR-FM 105.9 "Power 106" in Los Angeles to an affiliate of the Meruelo Group for $82.75 million.

An unbuilt Class A FM station serving the Monroe, La., market will soon be spreading the word through Christian Contemporary Music, courtesy of Mike Novak's ever-growing Educational Media Foundation. That's the lead deal in RBR+TVBR's TRANSACTIONS TODAY.

In a sign of the times, Wisconsin's "most powerful radio station" is getting a translator as it attempts to lure FM radio listeners who rarely, if ever, go to the AM band. We've got an RBR+TVBR Observation on the subject, which begs the question if radio companies should just turn off AM stations already.

Gordon P. Ackley is widely known across the U.S. Virgin Islands for an unsuccessful 2016 write-in campaign as the Republican candidate for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. He's also known as the owner of four stations in the three-island territory. On Sept. 1, he'll no longer hold any ownership interest in two of those FMs, and an FM translator. It's the lone deal in RBR+TVBR's TRANSACTIONS TODAY for Tuesday, Aug. 29.

It's not often that Educational Media Foundation decides to sell a radio station, given its ravenous appetite for expansion opportunities for its Christian Contemporary Music KLOVE and Air1 noncommercial formats. Yet, EMF is selling a Class A in the Lafayette, Ind., market, and the buyer is howlingly happy about the deal.