After shutting down his three stations in Tifton GA in July after losing access to their transmission equipment, Danny Sterling’s Sterling Southern Land LLC is donating the former Classic Rock “Rock 105.7” WFFM Ashburn, Country 107.5 WTIF-FM Omega, and Classic Country “Real Country 99.9” 1340 WTIF/99.9 W260AT Tifton to Journey Church of Tifton. The acquirer will operate the stations as non-commercial.
Rox Radio Group will reacquire Alternative “X104.9” KXNA Springdale/Fayetteville AR from Elizabeth Marquis for $500,000. Rox had sold KXNA to Marquis for that same amount in November 2020 when it acquired Hog Radio Inc’s stations in the Fayetteville market. It sold Sports “ESPN Arkansas” 99.5 KAKS Goshen/95.3 K237GR Johnson to Pearson Broadcasting of Goshen earlier this year allowing the company to fit KAKS under the ownership limits.
Bill Wachter’s One Media transfers 92.9 KMML Cimarron KS to Murfin Inc.’s Western Kansas Broadcast Center, LLC for $85,000. Both buyer and seller are partners in My Town Media. KMML will join the buyer’s Garden City cluster that includes Farm/Talk 1030 KBUF Holcomb, Country “Q97” 97.3 KKJQ Garden City, CHR “Z98” 98.1 KSKZ Copeland, Rock “99.9 The Rock” KWKR Leoti and Regional Mexican “Ke Buena 105.9” KSSA Ingalls.
Bruce Campbell’s Campbell Craft Company acquires 94.7 KTXO Goldsmith/Odessa TX from West Texas Broadcasting for $25,000. KTXO currently simulcasts Kickin Country Broadcasting’s Classic Country 1330 KCKM Monahans TX.
SNE Broadcasting sells Portuguese “Radio Voz Do Emigrante” 1400 WHTB/93.7 W229DC Fall River MA to Frank Baptista’s RVDE LLC for $200,000. As part of the deal, the buyer agrees to operate the station in a language other than English for either three years or SNE Broadcasting affiliate Bristol County Broadcasting sells 1480 WSAR/95.9 W240EB Fall River.
VCY America will purchase Silent 97.9 KTPT Rapid City SD from Bethesda Christian Broadcasting for $275,000. Bethesda sold the remainder of its broadcast assets in October 2021 to University of Northwestern – St. Paul’s Northwestern Media.
Shanti Persaud’s Unity Broadcasting sells Silent 1410 WQBQ/95.1 W236DN Leesburg FL to James and Patricia Floyd’s Floyd Media Radio for $150,000.
Threshold Communications sells Oldies “The Vine” 920 KVIN Ceres CA and translators 92.3 K222BX Modesto and 107.1 K296HL Manteca including its real estate to Punjabi American Media for $800,000.
Punjabi American Media DBA Punjabi Radio USA , has purchased KVIN-AM 920 Ceres, 92.3 FM Modesto and 107.1 FM Manteca from Threshold Communications.
The purchase price for KVIN, which uses 1 tower for daytime use and two towers for nighttime use, is $800,000, includes two FM translators and 18 Acres of prime agriculture land in Modesto.
Punjabi American Media’s addition of KVIN-AM brings the company’s AM radio station count to six, as it also owns KIID-AM (Sacramento), KOBO-AM (Yuba City), KWRU-AM (Fresno), KLHC-AM (Bakersfield), KCVR-AM (Lodi) and 99.3 FM & 98.5HD3 San Jose Bay Area. Its count of FM translators will be seven with addition of two new.
With 6 AM and 7 FM stations Punjabi/Indian radio station will be the largest network of Punjabi/South Asian radio station in California.
KVIN will adopt the “Punjabi Radio USA” programming presently heard on Punjabi American Media’s network of radio stations. It presently airs an Oldies radio format.
Demographics have changed a lot in California. The Punjabi community has grown substantially in California’s San Joaquin / Central Valley in recent years; hence the acquisition of KVIN will serve the Sikh/Punjabi/Indian Community.
KVIN’s signal reaches Modesto, Turlock, Manteca, Lodi & Stockton. KVIN runs at five hundred watts daytime but at sunset, power increases to 2,500 watts.
KVIN-AM first signed on the air on September 15, 1963, as KLOC. It was originally founded by country music artist Chester Smith who served as general manager.
Translator Sales
Vic Michael’s Mountain Community Translators will sell 96.5 K243BN Laveen AZ (pending application to move to 95.9 Cave Creek) to station broker George Kimble’s Media Sales LLC for $50,000. Kimble lists 1TV.com LLC’s “Oldies 96.5” KIKO-FM Claypool as its originating signal.
Manny Arroyo will purchase 93.9 W230AL Cocoa and 103.5 W278CN Eatonville/Orlando FL from Black Media Works for $200,000. W230AL, which has applied to relocate to Union Park on the east side of Orlando, will rebroadcast Spanish Variety “La Grande 1030” WONQ Oviedo. W278CN already rebroadcasts Salsa “Viva FM” 1140 WVVO Orlando.
Radio By Grace sells 104.7 K284DA Clovis NM to Vance Barbee’s Estrella Broadcasting for $2401. K284DA currently rebroadcasts the buyer’s 93.3 KUXL Muleshoe TX, but will shift to Barbee’s New Path Communications’ CP for 91.5 KIXV Muleshoe.
Radio By Grace also transfers 105.1 K286BU Idaho Falls ID to Kent Frandsen’s Sandhill Media Group in exchange for HD subchannels in Idaho Falls and Pocatello to feed programming for their 95.7 K239BN Idaho Falls and K293BR Pocatello and providing tower space for the former for ten years. K286BU will rebroadcast Frandsen’s 107.9 KAOX Shelley.
This story first appeared on radioinsight.com