Educational Media Foundation has made a pair of purchases. EMF will buy Christian Preaching 88.9 KSDW Temecula/96.9 K245AI San Pasqual CA from Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa for $200,000. The signals will join EMF’s “Air 1” network on November 1 through a network affiliation agreement.
EMF also files to acquire 91.1 KEZF Grants NM from Vic Michael’s Cedar Cove Broadcasting. EMF had originally filed to purchase the station in October 2021 for $160,000. The new deal amends that purchase due to Cedar Cove’s inability to maintain the current tower site and other closing conditions with EMF now paying $16,000 for the station.
Randy Gravley’s Tri-State Communications sells Southern Gospel 101.1 WJLA-FM Ellijay and AC 1580 WPGY/93.7 W229CE Ellijay and 98.1 W251CZ Jasper GA to David Basha’s Carriage Radio for $1.5 million. Basha owns three car dealerships in the Atlanta suburbs.
As part of a legal settlement Tabbassum Mumtaz’s Ampex Brands Texas FM LLC purchases the 50% it did not own of 700 KHSE Wylie/Dallas TX and 104.1 K281CS McKinney from Ravi Cherukuri’s Workforce Matters Inc. for $100. KHSE simulcasts the South Asian “Radio Caravan” programming from Mumtaz’s Radio Brands LLC’s 104.1 KTCG Sanger TX.
After shutting down his stations on July 1 to retire after 72 years operating them, Kermit Womack’s KERM Inc. sells 100.3 KURM-FM Gravette AR to John Brown University for $450,000. John Brown University will convert the station to non-commercial simulcasting their Christian AC 90.9 KLRC Tahlequah OK and 101.1 KLAB Siloam Springs AR. Womack retains the KURM-FM tower property and 790 KURM Rogers/94.5 K248DM Huntsville AR.
The Ernest Jones led Roanoke-Chowan Media purchases Gospel “Da Throwback Joy” 970 WRCS Ahoskie NC from James Watford’s WRCS-970 Radio Inc. for $10,000.
Kristopher ‘KJ Allen’ Kendrick’s Oconee Communications Company LLC buys 810 WYZI/100.3 W262DB Royston GA from his Oconee River Broadcasting for $1000.
After taking 92.5 WFDX Atlanta/Gaylord MI silent in March due to financial hardship, William Gleich sells the station to Northern Christian Radio for $175,000 to join one of its three networks in the region. Gleich had purchased WFDX in March 2021 for $180,000.
Houston Christian Broadcasters will acquire the CP in 88.5 Lamesa TX from Off The Cuff Educational Broadcasting via donation for no consideration.
Emmanuel Baptist Church of Hebron Inc. sells its CP for 90.9 WPWM Wheatfield IN to Matthew Middlebrooke’s American Christian Radio for $1. The buyer holds construction permits for five other stations: 91.3 KHBN Beloit KS, 90.1 KYPT Minot ND, 88.7 KYAS Artesia NM, 88.1 KNHO Roswell NM, and 88.1 KFCA Aberdeen SD.
Translator Sales
Walla Walla University sells 91.5 K218FH Omak WA to Valley Christian Fellowship of Oroville for $1. The filing continues to list the seller’s 89.9 KPLW Wenatchee as its parent signal.
