At 94.1 MHz in the North Carolina city of Lumberton is an FM translator that has been relaying the programming of WHQR Public Media in Wilmington, N.C. to this small community along I-95, to the south of Fayetteville.
That’s about to change. A sale of the translator to a different NPR Member has been consummated.
For $50,000, Friends of Public Radio is selling W231AB in Lumberton to WUNC Public Radio LLC.
WUNC is the main public radio station serving the Raleigh-Durham market, and is based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Once the deal is done, programming on the translator will shift from the Wilmington NPR station to that of WUNC.
A $5,000 escrow deposit has been made to Friends of Public Radio.
Serving as the broker of record in this deal, representing the seller, is Bob Heymann of the Chicago office of Media Services Group.
The buyer’s broker is Public Radio Capital.
