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Larry Gifford: Tuning In To Your Audience

Posted: 15 Jul 2016 12:26 PM PDT
https://larrygifford.wordpress.com/2...your-audience/





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Perry Simon: Breaking the Silence

Posted: 15 Jul 2016 12:01 PM PDT
http://www.allaccess.com/the-letter/...ng-the-silence





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EMF Acquires KSLY-FM San Luis Obispo

Posted: 15 Jul 2016 11:43 AM PDT
https://radioinsight.com/blog/headli...n-luis-obispo/



The sell-off of El Dorado Broadcasters Central California assets continues
as the company has agreed to sell 96.1 KSLY-FM San Luis Obispo to
Educational Media Foundation.

KSLY-FM dropped its short-lived Country 96.1 SLO Country format at the end
of June and along with sister 101.3 KJRW Los Osos-Baywood Park went dark,
while sister 107.3 KURQ Grover Beach flipped from Active Rock to Regional
Mexican as Gold Coast Radio began operating it via LMA. No purchase price
has been released yet.

EMF already operates its Christian AC K-Love network on 88.5 KLVH San Luis
Obispo, so KSLY will likely join its Christian CHR Air 1 network. Perhaps
with the KJRW calls recently parked on 101.3?



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91.7 KUHA Houston Sale To KSBJ Closes

Posted: 15 Jul 2016 09:25 AM PDT
https://radioinsight.com/blog/headli...-kuha-to-ksbj/



KSBJ Educational Foundation closed on the acquisition of Classical 91.7
KUHA Houston from from Houston Public Media this morning.

The station went Silent at 9:00 this morning to allow KSBJ to install their
distribution equipment and a new transmitter. When it returns to the air it
will do so with the Christian CHR NGEN Radio brand and new KXNG call
letters.

The Classical programming will now be heard on 88.7 KUHF-HD2.

Original Report 2/24: KSBJ Educational Foundation will pay $10 million for
KUHA and 91.3 K217GB Houston.

Original Report 2/24: Houston Public Media has announced it has agreed to
sell Classical 91.7 KUHA Houston to KSBJ Educational Foundation for an
undisclosed price.

KSBJ will flip KUHA to its Christian CHR NGEN Radio brand currently heard
in the market on 89.3 KSBJ-HD2 and a small network of stations serving the
areas south and west of Houston. HPM, owned by the University of Houston,
put KUHA on the market in August of 2015 and intends to keep the Classical
programming on 88.7 KUHF-HD2 once the sale of KUHA closes.

In addition to KSBJ-HD2, the NGEN programming is currently heard on 92.5
KWUP-HD2 Navasota/College Station, 89.5 KZBJ Bay City, 91.1 KYBJ Lake
Jackson, 99.5 K258BZ Sugar Land and 99.7 KUBJ Brenham TX.

Houston Public Media purchased then KTRU from Rice University in 2010.

KSBJ Educational Foundation (KSBJ) and University of Houston System (UHS)
announced today that they have entered into a purchase agreement for KSBJ
to acquire KUHA-FM from UHS. KUHA-FM is a 50,000 watt non-commercial
station serving the Houston market area. The transaction requires Federal
Communications Commission approval which is expected later this spring.

KSBJ intends to use the newly acquired signal to broadcast sister station
NGEN radio, which would expand NGEN radios Houston-area reach with their
ministry. With numerous signals throughout the Gulf Coast Region, NGEN
radio has been reaching a younger generation with Christian hip-hop and pop
music for over five years.

“This is a significant milestone for KSBJ. For 34 years, we have dreamed of
having a full power FM station covering all of Houston that reaches young
people,� says Tim McDermott, president of KSBJ. “We are so excited about
having this and the impact for good it will have on our city.�

Currently KUHA-FM is licensed to the University of Houston and operates as
Houston Public Media’s Classical 91.7. Last August the Board of Regents of
the University of Houston approved the transition of its continuous
classical music programming to all-digital distribution in recognition of
the superior broadcast quality and greater efficiency of digital
broadcasting.

Our commitment to multi-platform arts and culture coverage is stronger than
ever before as we are now incorporating online video and television
programming in addition to classical music for the Houston community,“ said
Lisa Shumate, associate vice president and general manager of Houston
Public Media where broadcast operations also include News 88.7 (KUHF-FM),
NPR in Houston and TV 8 (KUHT-TV) Houston PBS.

“We’re happy that the ownership of KUHA will stay in local hands with an
experienced broadcaster and look forward to working with KSBJ on a smooth
transition,� said Shumate.

Shumate added that, since the announcement of the transition last year,
Houston Public Media has continued broadcasting classical on KUHA-FM while
educating listeners about this coming change and how they can access the
all-classical digital broadcast through a variety of channels including
88.7 HD-2, Houston Public Media classical app, streaming online at
Houstonpublicmedia.org, free applications like iHeartRadio and TuneIn, and
via television at TV 8.5.




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Station Sales Week Of 7/14

Posted: 15 Jul 2016 05:31 AM PDT
https://radioinsight.com/blog/headli...s-week-of-714/


Station Sales

Reign Enterprises purchases Gospel 1320 WCVG Covington KY/Cincinnati from
Great Lakes Radio for $450,000. Reign Enterprises head Caleb Foster is
currently the General Manager for Great Lakes Radios Gospel 1440 WMKM
Inkster/Detroit MI.

Starlight Broadcasting agrees to acquire Silent 92.7 KORC and 1230 KBNH
Burns OR from Harney County Radio for $30,000. Both stations have been
silent since October 2015.

Conservative Talk 1270 WYXC Cartersville GA is sold by Anthony St. Cyrs to
Michael Dara Glinters Northwest Georgia Broadcasting for $180,000.

Omni Broadcasting is donating 1470 WEVG Evergreen AL to John Ralls Jr.s
Andala Enterprises.
Translator Sales
Station State Seller Buyer Price To Rebroadcast Station State
Seller Buyer Price To Rebroadcast 90.7 W214BV Port Charlotte FL Reach
Communications Edgewater Broadcasting $40,000 89.1 WLOG Markleysburg PA
105.5 W288DB Robinson IL Covenant Network V-Teck Communications
$32,500 1390 WBLL Bellefontaine OH 91.7 W219DP West Deerfield Beach FL
Reach Communications Edgewater Broadcasting $100,000 89.1 WLOG
Markleysburg PA 106.3 K292AX Cortez CO Southwest Colorado TV Translator
Association KUTE Inc. $7,500 90.1 KUTE Ignacio 96.3 K242CM Salem AR
Radio 74 Internationale E-Communications $17,500 1290 KALM Thayer MO
93.9 K230AM Hemphill TX David Cunningham Gap Broadcasting $45,000 640
KTIB Thibodaux 104.7 K284AZ Borger TX Edgewater Broadcasting Tyler
Media $18,000 102.9 KEYU-FM Amarillo 101.3 W267BW Sebring FL Radio
Training Network Salem Media $77,000 88.1 WJIS Bradenton 93.9 W230AO
Speculator

102.1 W271BQ Coxsackie NY Northeast Gospel Broadcasting Gois
Broadcasting $130,000 91.9 WNGN Argyle 96.7 W244BG Lanesborough MA
Northeast Gospel Broadcasting Gois Broadcasting $65,000 91.9 WNGN Argyle
NY 99.5 W258CR Bryson City NC Western North Carolina Public Radio
Beasley Media $45,000 580 WGAC Augusta GA /* Here you can add custom CSS
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