After taking News/Talk 560 KBLU Yuma AZ silent at the end of February, El Dorado Broadcasters is selling the station to Derek Egeberg’s Approval Coach Broadcasting LLC for $50,000. Egeberg serves as a local mortgage lender and is running for Yuma City Council.
Whiskey Sours Broadcasting and Productions sells 94.5 WSBX Mackinaw City MI to Northern Christian Radio for $200,000. Whiskey Sours, which also owns 93.1 WMKZ Monticello KY, acquired WSBX in 2023 and has been simulcasting TSE Broadcasting’s 95.1 WUPN Paradise/Sault Ste. Marie since April 2024 as Classic Hits “94.5/95.1 Bridge-FM“. The buyer operates three non-commercial Christian brands in Northern Michigan.
Kurt Jackson’s Quinebaug Valley Broadcasting purchases Catholic 970 WESO/101.1 W266DK Southbridge MA from Holy Family Communications for $65,000. Jackson owns 700 WQVD Orange-Athol, 940 WQVR Webster, stations in Newport RI, and partial stakes in a couple other Massachusetts stations.
Samuel ‘Delk’ Kennedy sells 50% of Middle Tennessee Broadcasting Company’s Full Service Classic Hits 1340 WKRM/103.7 W279DL and Conservative Talk 101.7 WKOM Columbia TN to Clayton Harris for $700,000. Included in the purchase are stakes in both stations’ transmitter sites. Harris serves as Station Manager and co-hosts mornings with Kennedy on WKRM.
Penfold Communications donates Christian Preaching 89.9 KMWC Bethany MO to Wise Support Services.
Translator Sales
Torres Media Group purchases “Fox Sports 93.9” K230CK Waco TX from Gary Moss for $1. Included in the deal is an immediate Time Brokerage Agreement for the translator until closing and 104.9 KRMX-HD3 Bellmead for eight years at $1350 per month for the first three years and $1500 per month after that.
