Radio and Television Transactions

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.

There's a Class D AM station with call letters widely known to a generation of Houston radio listeners that's licensed to Bellville, Tex., to the northwest of town. In January, this station made headlines for failing to sign off at sunset, as required by its license. Now, the station is trading hands, and the deal is valued in the millions of dollars.

A Black Hills cluster is under a new company's umbrella following the sale of three FM signals and two FM boosters by the Delaware-based Bad Lands Broadcasting Company. Mid-Century Radio LLC, under Managing Member Aaron Ishmael, is the new owner of KRKI, KFMH, and KXZT, covering Belle Fourche, Keystone, and Newell, South Dakota. The FM boosters for KRKI and KFMH are added to cover Rapid City.

The sale paperwork for KPLU has been filed with the FCC.

With the clock ticking on an STA to go silent

Travel between Elmira and Binghamton, N.Y., and you'll actually slip into a small slice of Pennsylvania for a mile or two. This is where Sayre, Pa., is located, and it's the home of an AM/FM combo simulcasting as "The Choice." It's now the election of the stations' licensee to sell the stations, leaving it up to the incoming owner to decide whether or not he'll make a change.

We just reported on an acquisition by Educational Media Foundation on Florida’s Gulf Coast – now we have another taking place on the shores of Lake Michigan. One of the interesting elements of the Sturgeon Bay WI buy: the pricing.

Tor Ingstad is about to even up a two-AM one-FM cluster in northern Minnesota, but he’s going to have to build the second FM...

A Hispanic broadcaster serving the Miami market is the latest to step forward