J&J expands on Upper Peninsula
Gerald J. Hackman and John J. Nix have interests in three radio stations on the western end of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula along Lake Superior,...
Transactions: 7-21-09
$1M WGMF-FM Wilkes Barre-Scranton PA (Dallas PA) from Geos Communications (Kevin M. Fitzgerald, Benjamin P. Smith, Betty S. Curtin) to Family Life Ministries Inc....
Transactions: 7-20-09
$200K WXCH-FM Hope IN from Wagon Wheel Broadcasting LLC (Kenneth S. Johnson) to Reising Radio Partners Inc. (Keith L. Reising Jr.). Entire amount placed...
Radio station price drops in San Francisco
Back in 2004 Flying Bear Media bought what’s now KNGY-FM for $33.7 million, which seemed like a pretty normal price at the time. It’s...
Transactions: 7-17-09
$100K KCLS-FM Pioche NV from College Creek Media LLC (Christopher F. Devine) to Canyon Media Group LLC (M. Kent Frandsen, Patricia A. Frandsen). Cash....
Transactions: 7-16-09
$600K KGVL-AM/KIKT-FM Greenville TX from Susquehanna Radio Corporation, a subsidiary of Cumulus Media Partners LLC (Lewis R. Dickey Jr.) to KGVL Radio LLC (Alpha...
Three-way deal takes NY Times out of radio
The New York Times Company is selling its last broadcast property, WQXR-FM New York, in a three-way deal that will have Univision acquire the...
Transactions: 7-15-09
$800K WZUM-AM Pittsburgh PA (Carnegie PA) from Sovereign City Radio Services LLC (Mark C. Follett) to Believe & Achieve Family and Educational Center Inc....
Swap translates into Utica AM
Charles Williamson’s Charles Williamson has a very unusual deal sitting at the FCC. He’ll be getting WRUN-AM New Hartford NY, in the Utica-Rome market,...
Indy FM gets religion
As commercial broadcast groups largely sit on the sidelines of station buying, non-commercial Christian music specialist Educational Media Foundation is gobbling up stations. The...
Transactions: 7-14-09
$300K KOSG-FM Pawhuska OK from Tallgrass Broadcasting LLC (Joseph E. Walker) to South Central Oklahoma Christian Broadcasting Inc. (Randall Christy, Thomas M. Huddleston, Sharla...
EMF panhandles a CP
Midland MD is out on the western extremity of Maryland, on the state’s panhandle just west of Cumberland. That’s where Educational Media Foundation will...
Transactions: 7-13-09
$3M KMJR-FM Palm Springs CA (Rancho Mirage CA) from Mitchell Media Inc. (Daniel P. Mitchell) to RM Broadcasting LLC (Robert A. Rivkin Trust, Todd...
Big group Clears one out in Harrisburg
Radio’s largest station portfolio will be lighter by one once a deal to sell WKBO-AM in the Harrisburg-Lebanon-Carlisle PA market goes to closing –...
Doubling not far from Fargo
A quintet of stakeholders are picking up an AM-FM combo in Lisbon, south of the Fargo ND-Moorhead MN market, which will form a double...