Translator Sales
Northwestern Media will acquire 102.9 K275BQ Kansas City MO from Pete Schartel’s Alpine Broadcasting Network for $500,000. The translator, which currently rebroadcasts Brokered Talk 1140 KCXL Liberty, will rebroadcast Northwestern’s 88.5 KJNW-HD2 Kansas City likely to bring their Christian Preaching “Faith Radio” brand to Kansas City. They already operate Christian AC “Life 88.5” KJNW in the market.
Station Sales
After taking the station silent at the end of May, Rex Tackett’s Wendlee Broadcasting is donating the former Hot AC “96.9 The Breeze” KQBZ Brownwood TX to Howard Payne University valuing the station at $375,000.
Tackett is also selling Silent 1000 KSTA Coleman TX to James Rodney Dunn’s Forest Jack Investments for $3500. KSTA went silent in April
Jay Brentlinger’s Broadcast Industry Group will purchase Silent 1440 KTUV/99.9 K260DT Little Rock AR from Crain Media Group for $350,000 with an immediate LMA. Brentlinger is in the process of selling his other Arkansas stations to the Atonn Muhammad led Blacksun Private Equity for $2 million.
Don Davis’s Vanguard Media LLC is buying 980 KMIN/104.3 K282BW Grants NM from Derek Underhill’s KD Radio for $50,000. Vanguard owns 96.7 KSFE Grants and 95.9 KEPS Skyline-Ganipa covering Grants.
Vanguard is also purchasing Classic Hits 102.1 KNMQ Socorro NM from Socorro Community Radio for $50,000. KNMQ debuted its current format in April 2025 as part of a programming agreement with Vanguard that included an option to purchase the station.
Sale Withdrawals
The sales of Gerald Benavides’s Claro Communications’ Spanish Christian “La Poderosa” 1070 KOPY/101.7 K269HD and Tejano “Y92” 92.1 KOPY-FM Alice TX to Remigio Rios’ La Posada Radio for “the mutual promises, agreements, and obligations contained in this Agreement, together with other good and valuable consideration” filed earlier this month has been withdrawn after Rios was arrested on a charge of continuous sexual abuse of a child under 14 at the Catholic school he worked at. Rios’ La Posada Radio has been operating KOPY and KOPY-FM via LMA since 2011.
