Myers Mermel and Carolin McLain’s WDEV LLC have filed their acquisition of Radio Vermont Group from the estate of Ken Squire. Originally announced in January to be purchased by Mermel and Scott Milne’s Mermel & McLain Management LLC, the restructured deal will see WDEV LLC and related companies WCVT Acquisition LLC and WLVB Acquisition LLC pay $282,500 for Variety 550 WDEV/96.1 WDEV-FM Warren/96.5 W243AT Barre/98.3 W252CU Montpelier, Country “93.9 Vermont Country” WLVB Morrisville, and Classic Hits 101.7 WCVT Stowe/102.5 W273AM Montpelier.
Scott Zimmermann’s Sidestream Media purchases Country/Rock 102.3 KZRN Hettinger ND from Jeff Hallen’s Hirange Media Corp. for $40,000.
Pampa TX’s Bible Baptist Church buys the CP for 88.9 Dalhart TX from Christian Ministries of the Valley for $1. The buyer owns the just launched in October Christian 88.5 KWGP Pampa.
Translator Sales
News Talk STL Radio converts its lease of Educational Media Foundation’s 101.9 K270BW Bellefontaine/St. Louis MO into a $570,000 acquisition. The buyer operates Conservative Talk “News Talk STL” fed via 99.1 KLJY-HD3 Clayton and is also heard on their 94.1 KNBS Bowling Green MO.
Bible Broadcasting Network sells Silent 91.3 K217CP to Bott’s Community Broadcasting Inc. for $10,000. The translator will rebroadcast the buyer’s 90.7 KTAA Big Sandy.
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