{"id":99503,"date":"2025-12-18T08:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T08:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/99503\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T08:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T08:57:08","slug":"deal-digest-momentum-broadcasting-bulks-up-in-fresno-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/99503\/","title":{"rendered":"Deal Digest: Momentum Broadcasting Bulks Up In Fresno. | Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STATION SALES<\/p>\n<p>West Palm Beach-Boca Raton, FL \u2013 Ketlande Felix-Veillard\u2019s Glory to El Shaddai Radio Stations has filed a $600,000 deal to buy ethnic \u201cRadio Nouvelle Lumiere\u201d WPBR (1340) from Sam Rogatinsky\u2019s Palm Beach Radio Group. The deal also includes the Twentymile Bend, FL-licensed translator W248CK at 97.5 FM. Glory to El Shaddai Radio Stations will operate the station under a local marketing agreement until closing. It doesn\u2019t own any other stations. Once the sale closes, Palm Beach Radio Group will still own stations in Miami, Tampa and Orlando.<\/p>\n<p>Fresno-Visalia, CA \u2013 Don and Shelly Groppetti\u2019s Momentum Broadcasting has filed a $400,000 deal to buy \u201cLa Ley 94.5 FM and 1370 AM\u201d KGEN-FM &amp; AM from JA Ventures. Momentum Broadcasting already owns classic rock KIOO (99.7), country KJUG (106.7), and AC KVMI (1270) in the market. Once the sale closes, JA Ventures will still own oldies KTIP (1450) in Fresno. Broker: The Exline Company<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina \u2013 K-Love has filed a $92,000 deal to buy contemporary Christian \u201cGo Mix Radio Network\u201d affiliate WGTL, La Grange, NC (88.3) from Pathway Christian Academy. The signal will help fill-in K-Love\u2019s map in the region, covering an area to the southeast of the Raleigh market.<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes Barre-Scranton-Hazleton, PA \u2013 AFB Community Solutions Organization has filed a $5,000 deal to buy adult alternative WMLD (88.1) from Telikoja Educational Broadcasting.<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma \u2013 VSS Catholic Communications has filed a one dollar deal to buy religious KEUC, Ringwood, OK (104.9) and religious KOEG, Walters, OK (88.3) from Oklahoma Catholic Broadcasting. VSS Catholic Communications currently owns nine \u201cSpirit Catholic Radio Network\u201d stations in Nebraska.<\/p>\n<p>Washington \u2013 Ruth&#8217;s House of Hope has filed to donate KGTC, Oroville, WA (88.3) to Valley Christian Fellowship of Oroville. The station is currently off the air.<\/p>\n<p>TRANSLATOR SALES<\/p>\n<p>Alaska \u2013 Alaska Village Missions has filed a $15,000 deal to buy the Seward-Woodrow, AK-licensed translator K236CC at 95.1 FM from Gary Rose\u2019s Turquoise Broadcasting. Under the terms of the deal, Rose will make a $5,000 tax deductible donation to Alaska Village Missions following the closing. An application will also be filed to change city of license to Ninilchik, AK and change the frequency to 95.3 FM. Alaska Village Missions plans to replace the simulcast of Peninsula Radio Group\u2019s adult alternative \u201cK-Wave\u201d KWVV to Moody Radio religious programming. Alaska Village Missions already owns KAVM, Cold Bay, AK (105.1) and several translators in the state.<\/p>\n<p>New York \u2013 Hudson Valley Public Radio has filed a $6,000 deal to buy the Hyde Park, NY-licensed translator W213AC at 90.5 FM from Loam Media. The noncommercial arm of Neversink Media will relay the Hudson Valley market jazz WJZZ (88.1) on the translator.<\/p>\n<p>Monterey-Salinas-Santa Cruz, CA \u2013 Pacifica Foundation files to donate the Monterey, CA-licensed translator K232FZ at 94.3 FM to Common Communications Southern California. The filing says the signal will continue to relay \u201cPacifica Radio\u201d KPFA San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>Bryan-College Station, TX \u2013 Pacifica Foundation has filed to donate the Goodrich, TX-licensed translator K212FV at 90.3 FM to Brazos Educational Radio. It will simulcast variety KEOS (89.1) on the signal.<\/p>\n<p>Monterey-Salinas-Santa Cruz, CA \u2013 Pacifica Foundation has filed to donate the Santa Cruz, CA-licensed translator K248BR at 97.5 FM to the Boulder Creek Recreation &amp; Parks District. It will relay variety \u201cBoulder Creek Community Radio\u201d KBCZ on the signal.<\/p>\n<p>California \u2013 One Ministries has filed a one dollar deal to buy the Redding, CA-licensed translator K268AJ at 101.5 FM from Loam Media. One Ministries will continue to relay religious \u201cFamily Radio\u201d KHAP (89.1) on the signal.<\/p>\n<p>CLOSINGS<\/p>\n<p>Panama City, FL \u2013 John Caracciolo\u2019s JVC Broadcasting has closed a $1.25 million deal to buy adult hits \u201c105.9 The Wave\u201d WILN-FM (105.9), classic country \u201cWild Willie 100.1\u201d WWLY, \u201cNews Talk 101 FM\u201d WYOO and rock \u201c97X\u201d WYYX from Don McCoy\u2019s Magic Broadcasting. The deal includes $250,000 in seller financing with a promissory note to paid out over a 24-month period. JVC Broadcasting already owns a cluster in the Florida Panhandle with a four-station group in the Fort Walton Beach, FL market. It also owns stations in the Gainesville, FL and Long Island, NY markets. Magic Broadcasting still owns \u201cReal Talk 93.3\u201d WVFT in the Tallahassee market. Broker: Doyle Hadden of Hadden Assoc. Media Broker<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes Barre-Scranton, PA \u2013 K-Love has closed a $200,000 deal to buy WVLY-FM (100.9) from Michael Radio Group. The station is currently silent. K-Love already owns contemporary Christian \u201cK-Love\u201d affiliate WKBP (95.9) in the market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATION SALES West Palm Beach-Boca Raton, FL \u2013 Ketlande Felix-Veillard\u2019s Glory to El Shaddai Radio Stations has filed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[20299,112,114,113,100],"class_list":["post-99503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-free","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}