Akash Broadcasting was approved to acquire CFRW 1290 Winnipeg MB from Bell Media “under the same terms and conditions as those currently in effect. Akash indicated that CFRW would broadcast 126 hours of programming per broadcast week, including 42 hours of local programming”.

A companion application for Akash to purchase CKMX 1060 [and CFVP shortwave] Calgary AB was denied by the commission.
https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2025/2025-273.htm

Andy Reid (2025-10-17)

Station Sales Week of 9/19
Todd Noordyk’s Great Lakes Radio Inc. donates Oldies 1400 WQXO/97.7 W249DR Munising MI to K-Love Inc.

Idornia Suzette Stephens sells Peach Broadcasting Company with its Country 1420 WPEH/103.5 W278CO and Oldies 92.1 WPEH-FM Louisville GA to Gary Ware for $430,000.

Jeff Chang sells 1460 WVOX New Rochelle NY to Lizchizedek and Authencia Manning’s Omega Vision Network for $77,000. Chang purchased WVOX’s license in 2023 for $20,000. It is currently operating via STA on a long wire antenna with just ten watts as its former site was not included in its sale.
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/308838/station-sales-week-of-9-19/

Lance Venta, Radio Insight (2025-09-19)

Station Sales Week 9/12
Tom and Desire Hoyt’s WCJW LLC acquires Lloyd Lane Inc.’s Country “CJ Country” 1140 WCJW Warsaw NY and its network of six translators covering the area between Buffalo and Rochester: 100.9 W265DQ Alden, 100.9 W265BX Geneseo, 103.7 W279BO Warsaw, 104.3 W282BQ Avon, 105.5 W288BZ Batavia, and 104.9 W285EZ Arcade for $750,000. The Hoyt’s also own Christian Preaching “Pure Radio” 1600 WZZW Milton WV which also airs on translators in Louisville KY and Evansville IN.

Melba McCollum sells Christian “Crossroads” 1450 KLMX/104.5 K283CV and Country/Classic Rock “97.5 The Bear” KLMX-FM Clayton NM to David Daney Jr. and Anna Haisten’s Rabbit Ear Media & Print for $264,000. The buyers are husband and wife who both work at the station with Haisten serving as General Manager and Daney anchoring high school football and basketball broadcasts.
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/308537/station-sales-week-of-9-12/

Lance Venta, Radio Insight (2025-09-12)

After announcing its $465,000 acquisition of Oldies “Fonz AM” 1290 WZTI Greenfield and Country “Froggy MKE” 100.3 W262CJ Milwaukee/107.3 W297BY Franklin WI from Milwaukee Radio Alliance, Civic Media has announced its plans for the stations when it plans to take over via LMA on Wednesday, September 17.
The launches are pending equipment installation and engineering coordination to repair the damaged transmitter that took WZTI silent last month following flood damage.
WZTI and W297BY will begin simulcasting Full Service Oldies 1400 WRJN/99.9 W260CV Racine and 98.1 W251BU Kenosha expanding that station’s coverage into Milwaukee giving the station coverage on AM from Waukegan IL to Sheboygan WI and FM from Kenosha to Oak Creek.
100.3 W262CJ will be transferred to rebroadcast Liberal Talk 540 WAUK Jackson/101.1 W266BR Waukesha to better cover downtown Milwaukee and its eastern suburbs.
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/308467/

Lance Venta, Radio Insight (2025-09-11)

First Dallas Media is receiving the license of Christian Preaching 770 KAAM Garland/Dallas TX from DJRD Broadcasting as a donation valued at $1,885,128. The deal does not include the KAAM tower site, which was sold separately. KAAM had recently gone silent due to the loss of its tower site. First Dallas Media owns Christian AC 90.9 KCBI Dallas and additional simulcasters in north central Texas.

Roger Lonnquist’s Northwest Capital Corporation purchases Silent 1230 KLCB Libby MT from Lincoln County Broadcasters for $10,000. Co-owned 101.7 KTNY Libby goes to the Lonnquist led Hi-Line Radio Fellowship for $30,000. Hi-Line operates the Christian Preaching “Your Network of Praise“.

Ryan Williams’ KBBW LLC acquires Christian Preaching 1010 KBBW Waco and translators 100.3 K262DG Georgetown, 101.3 K267CA Templa, and 105.9 K290CV Waco from the estate of his father Steve Williams’ American Broadcasting of Texas for $204,440.
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/303926/station-sales-week-of-7-11/

Lance Venta, Radio Insight (2025-07-11)

Derek & Sheila Underhill’s UBC Inc. acquires Shopping/Talk 1400 KSHP/107.1 K296HP North Las Vegas NV from William Pollack’s Las Vegas Broadcasting for $180,000. The buyers also own KD Radio, Inc. which holds four stations in New Mexico including Oldies 1240 KDSK Los Ranchos de Albuquerque/92.9 K225CH Rio Rancho/92.7 KDSK-FM Grants, Classic Country 840 KDNF Belen/Albuquerque and 980 KMIN/104.3 K282BW Grants.
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/302711/station-sales-week-on-6-20/

Lance Venta, Radio Insight (2025-06-20)

WRCR ends longtime programming during pending sale.
The station is being bought out by WABC-New York Radio’s parent company, Red Apple Media.The sudden closure of a decades-old AM radio station in Rockland County marks the end of an era during the pending sale of the once longtime community staple.

WRCR AM 1700 in Garnerville stopped broadcasting earlier this month. The station is being bought out by WABC-New York Radio’s parent company, Red Apple Media.

The Garnerville-based station traces back to the 1960s and survived several moves, frequency changes and the changing media landscape – but it’s beloved hyper-local programming, including a morning drive show, political broadcasts and nostalgic programs like its doo-wop show, kept many Rocklanders tuned in.

“We made Arbitron. I don’t think that’s ever been done for a local AM radio station,” says former morning show host Steve Possell. “That’s how many people were listening.

Arbitron, now Nielsen, tracks viewer and listenership in media.
Possell, who is blind, worked at the station for more than 50 years and retired in 2021 when he says older, tactile media he worked on could no longer be repaired and was swapped out for digital equipment.
When asked if he thinks the station’s closure is an end of an era, Possell quickly answered, “Yep. Radio itself is in trouble. It just doesn’t have the flair that it once had.”
News 12 reached out to WRCR’s longtime owner Alexander Medakovich for comment and a representative for Red Apple Media but did not receive a response.
Legal documents obtained by News 12 show Red Apple Media is purchasing the station for $600,000.

WABC is now broadcasting on AM 1700’s airwaves and is no longer broadcasting the station’s regular local programming.
The change has prompted a slew of reaction on social media, including a post from state Sen. Bill Weber about being “disappointed” after his own show was canceled.
As for Possell, he hopes the new owners will eventually bring back the content so many folks skipped modern media for when they tuned in.
“Keep it local,” he says, “because that’s what made WRCR.”
https://westchester.news12.com/end-of-an-era-wrcr-ends-longtime-programming-during-pending-sale?fbclid=IwY2xjawKnhGNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFRdnZyTVpJWXUyODVkbTk0AR6DmltFkhqHiA61g23__AArOQ7-p7T8W0_cRqSUZ01AUYa_sHPujopcnchR3w_aem_NBhawZppsyHrNNPKnBKZ-A

Svenn Martinsen to Arctic Radio Club Facebook group (2025-05-27)

WRCR 1700/WABC ownership correxion.

I am obliged to correct one aspect of my earlier message.
Alexander and Red Apple signed an Asset Purchase Agreement (in January 2025 but its actual date was left blank!) in which Alexander agreed to sell WRCR to Red Apple. On 24th April, the agreement was amended confirming the agreement date as 24th April. The amendment listed a number of repairs that Alexander had to undertake conditional to the sale. On the same date, Alexander and Red Apple entered into a Local Programming and Marketing Agreement which sees Red Apple’s 77 WABC programming being heard on 1700 WRCR. This is what led to the change to WABC programming being heard in early May.
Yesterday, an Assignment of Authorisation was submitted to the FCC. Legally FCC must approve the assignment of a station’s licence from one licensee to another. Part of the Asset Purchase Agreement is that the licence be transferred to the buyer. Until this has been done, the station is still owned by Alexander Broadcasting.

I therefore correct my earlier message – WRCR has not yet been sold, so Red Apple Media have not yet “bought” WRCR. It is, for the time being, still owned by Alexander Broadcasting Inc.

Andrew Brade to WOR iog (2025-05-27)

After planning to take the station silent in March, Cumulus Media has agreed to sell Conservative Talk “Talk 1270” WHLD Niagara Falls/Buffalo NY to Buddy Shula’s Radio One Buffalo for $150,000. Shula currently owns Oldies “Big WECK” 1230 WECK Cheektowaga with three translators in the Buffalo market and Yacht Rock “Key 93.7” WKEY-FM Key West FL. An LMA will take effect on June 1.

Holy Family Communications sells its trio of 730 WACE Chicopee/Springfield, 1230 WNEB Worcester, and 970 WESO/101.1 W266DK Southbridge MA to Journey For Life Media for $150,000. The stations currently operate as part of the seller’s Catholic “Stations of the Cross” network.

Tómas Tate buys 1220 WSTL/93.7 W229AN Providence RI from Nelson Diaz’s Diaz Holdings for $450,000. WSTL currently serves as the parent of Spanish CHR “Mega 94.9” W235CN with the translator operating as Hip Hop “The Juice” fed bu Audacy’s 103.7 WVEI-HD2.
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/300222/

Lance Venta, Radio Insight (2025-05-09)

Station Sales of the Week.

Lakeland Media, a 50/50 partnership of John David Linder’s Linder Media LLC and Lynn Ketelsen’s Ketelsen Media LLC, will purchase Headwaters Media’s three stations in Atwater and Benson MN for $375,000. The deal for Classic Rock “94.1 The Loon” KKLN Atwater/Willmar, Classic Hits 93.5 KSCR-FM Benson, and Classic Country 1290 KBMO/103.5 K278CX Benson is structured with $200,000 going to seller John Jennings in a consulting agreement through January 2027. KKLN will join Lakeland Media’s other holdings in the Willmar market that includes Classic Country “Big Country 100.1” KOLV Olivia, Hot AC “Q102” 102.5 KQIC Willmar, Classic Hits “106.5 The Train” KLFN Sunburg, and News/Talk 1340 KWLM/96.3 K242CF Willmar and 101.1 K266CM Sunburg.

Elliott Morgan’s Mud Radio LLC acquires Christian Preaching “The Light” 1490 WFAD Middlebury VT from Christian Ministries Inc. for $3000 after an LMA took effect last November. The buyer also owns Americana “Mud Radio” 101.5 WMUD-FM Brandon/Rutland VT.
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/294807/station-sales-week-of-2-14-2/

Lance Venta, Radio Insight (2025-02-14)