MBM Texas Valley sells Classic Hits “Classic 92.7” KESO South Padre Island TX to Rio Grande Bible Institute for $550,000. RGBI began operating the station via LMA on Monday, May 3 flipping the station to its Spanish Christian “Radio Esperanza” network heard on 88.5 KOIR Edinburg, 97.7 KRIO-FM Roma, and 910 KRIO McAllen.
Danny and Kait Hill have purchased News/Talk “Kern River Radio” 1140 KVLI/103.7 K279CZ Lake Isabella CA from Alta Sierra Broadcasting for $25,000. The Hills own Hot AC “Rewind 98.1” KRWI Woffard Heights/93.5 K228GB Lake Isabella.
William Stafford’s Route 6 Broadcasting Area Partnership sells Country 1370 WWCB/94.1 W231DW Corry PA to Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine for $70,000. LECOM will add the signals to its Oldies 88.5 WMCE-FM Erie.
Translator Sales
Middle Tennessee State University sells 104.9 W285FB Bellevue TN to Nashville’s Sportsradio, Inc. for $65,614. W285FB will be added to the translator network rebroadcasting Sports 560 WNSR Brentwood/Nashville along with 95.9 W240CA Brentwood, 107.9 W300DO Smyrna and 103.9 WPDQ Drakesboro KY.
Nelly Broadcasting purchases 92.1 K221FW Lewiston and 96.9 K245CH Grangeville ID from Radio By Grace for $44,609.54. K221FW rebroadcasts Nelly’s “Big Country 97.7” KZBG Lapwai, while K245CH rebroadcasts Classic Hits “96.9 KORT-FM” 1230 KORT Grangeville.
Hochman Hawaii Two purchases 104.7 K284AL Haleiwa HI from New Heights Communications for $60,000. K284AL, which currently rebroadcasts EMF’s “K-Love” network via 103.5 KLUU Wahiawa, will rebroadcast a subchannel of Hochman’s 101.1 KORL-FM Waiane/Honolulu.
Community Media Assistance Project sells 96.7 K244ES Carson WA/Hood River OR to The Next Door Inc. for $1. K244ES will continue to rebroadcast Radio Tierra’s 95.1 KZAS-LP Hood River.
