After closing on their purchase of Full Service AAA 1410 KRML Carmel/94.7 K234DH Monterey CA, Rhonda Howard-Vachon and Guy Craig Vachon’s El Avance LLC has set their plans for the station.

Craig Vachon said, “After 40 years in high tech, buying a terrestrial FM radio station probably makes me look even more like a knucklehead to my peers. But that’s the point. In a world obsessed with frictionless, algorithmic echo chambers, something human, local, relevant, and genuinely alive matters more than ever. Algorithms treat music like a frozen dinner—predictable, optimized for mass consumption, and fast. KRML is your neighborhood restaurant. We serve comfort, yes, but our real specialty is introducing you to a new favorite you didn’t even know you were craving.”

The Vachons state that no changes will be made to the station’s programming, airstaff, or musical direction. They said the station will “evolve into a multichannel civic and cultural engagement hub—a place listeners can take with them wherever they are, across airwaves, digital platforms, and in-person experiences”. Other changes will include expanded digital and social media presences, deepened partnerships with local artists, venues, cultural, and non-profit organizations, create new opportunities for community participation—on-air and off, and strengthen its role as a connector of people, music, and places.

Rhonda Howard-Vachon followed, “The voices our listeners have grown to trust and love—Jasmine and Jeff, who guide that discovery—and the spirit of the station aren’t going anywhere. We’re simply here to support it, grow it, and invite the community to become even closer.”

Made famous in the Clint Eastwood movie “Play Misty For Me’, the Vachons purchased the station from KRML Radio LLC or $64,000 with $10,000 in cash and $54,000 worth of advertising credits spread out as $1500 per month for 36 months.
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/359825/new-owners-set-plans-for-krml/

Radio Insight (2026-06-21)

47 SRN stations to be sold.
SRN stations here: https://www.srn.com.au

Australia’s biggest private radio network for sale after alleged family feud.
Australia’s biggest private radio network has been put up for sale for the first time in 40 years after an alleged feud between siblings.

Daily Telegraph Confidential :
Australia’s biggest and most mysterious private radio network is for sale for the first time in 40 years.
Confidential can reveal Super Radio Network (SRN), the company behind Sydney’s 2SM 1269, is looking for a buyer, with hopes of achieving a sale price as high as $200m.
It is understood the sale has been prompted by the disintegration of the relationship between co-owners and siblings Despina Priala and George Caralis, the children of SRN founder Bill Caralis, who died of a heart attack in July 2024 aged 81.
Insiders say the pair haven’t been on speaking terms for the last year, with contact sometimes limited between lawyers.
Dan Tepper of KPMG has been appointed to sell SRN. He is well known for selling Janet Cameron’s Grant Broadcasting group of regional radio stations for a staggering $300 million to the ASX- listed Australian Radio Network.
It comes days after the departure of chief executive Rhys Holleran and SRN announcing a new boss: Graham Mott, formerly of Nine Radio.
SRN, or Broadcast Operations Group, has a massive network of mostly regional radio stations.
The broadcaster’s biggest markets include Newcastle, Bathurst, Tamworth, Dubbo, Taree, Lismore and Tweed Heads.
SRN stations are in markets where radio broadcasting remains strong with audiences.
A further strength for the business is that the Caralis family owns not only the radio frequency licences but also an extensive portfolio of properties, including transmitter sites and spare land.
The Caralis’ hold some 50 stations and employ roughly 200 people.
Sydney is a jewel in the crown, where 2SM is based out of a large headquarters in Pyrmont. SRN’s Tweed Heads offices are also a significant asset for the business.

“It has been in the works for a long time,” a long-term staff member told Confidential.
“Their late father would be heartbroken to see it get to this. Bill was fiercely proud of the network he built and to see a split in the family that is seeing it sold up is tragic. George wants to modernise the company, invest, and make a go of it and Despina has different views, so they’re getting out.”y up to date with the Daily Telegraph.

Despina runs her own legal business based on the Gold Coast.
George has worked in the family company since he was a teenager. He’s now in his 50s.
“He has a good feel for radio”.
One country station manager said: “This has been a family company for so long, we have no idea what the future could look like.”
On Friday, Confidential revealed Holleran had exited the business after just a few months in the job.

Chris Martin AUS (2026-03-30)

Heartland Signal will acquire Liberal Talk “AM 950” KTNF St. Louis Park/Minneapolis from Chad Larson’s JR Broadcasting for $250,000. The buyer is operated by non-profit Future Now Action and acquired Liberal Talk 820 WCPT Willow Springs/Chicago and Brokered Ethnic 1240 WSBC Chicago from Heartland Signal founder Fred Eychaner’s Newsweb Radio in 2024.

Christina Biegun’s Little Dog Media Group continues its growth in South Florida with the purchase of 1420 WDJA Delray Beach from Radio Cristo Mi Redentor Universo 1420AM Inc. for $425,000. A Time Brokerage Agreement took effect on Monday, March 2. Little Dog Media Group has also filed to make WDJA the parent signal for their recently acquired Oldies/Brokered Talk “True Oldies” 95.3 W237BD Boca Raton and 95.9 W240CI North Palm Beach.

Brint Ryan’s Ryan Media will purchase K-Best Media LLC from the estate of Sheila Abusaab for $900,000. Included in the deal are Hot AC “94.3 The Fuse” KBTS, Country “K-Best 95.7” KBST-FM, and News/Talk 1490 KBST/103.9 K280GW Big Spring TX.

Norman Worth purchases the 50% of Full Service AC 1510 WRNJ Hackettstown and translators 92.7 W224AS Washington and 105.7 W289AR Glen Gardner NJ that he does not hold from Larry Tighe for $200,000. Tighe will retain ownership of WRNJ translator 104.7 W284CQ Hackettstown.
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/342287/station-sales-week-of-3-6-2/

Radio Insight (2026-03-06)

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)