AMs
-- Broadcasting & Cable, 12/11/2000
KOKE Pflugerville/Austin, Texas
Price: $2.3 million
Buyer: Lasting Value Communications Corp., Austin (Meredith C. Beal, president/owner); owns KCLW(AM) Hamilton (near Waco), Texas. Beal also owns KTXJ(AM)-KWYX(FM) Jasper, Texas
Seller: William W. Jamar, Brownwood, Texas; owns 72% of KSNY-AM-FM Snyder and 44% of KBWD(AM)-KOXE(FM) Brownwood, Texas. Note: KOKE has been on air only since May 1999
Facilities: 1600 kHz, 5 kW day, 700 W night
Format: Christian
WNST (formerly WKDB) Townson/ Baltimore, Md
. Price: $1 million
Buyer: Nasty 1570 Sports LLC, Baltimore (Steve Hennessey, general manager/5% owner; Jimandi LLC, 75% owner [Charles C. Baum, 14.2% managing member]); no other broadcast interests
Seller: Capital Kids' Radio Co., Bethesda, Md. (David Eppler, principal); no other broadcast interests. Note: Capital Kids planned to sell WNST for $1.5 million (Changing Hands, Oct. 4, 1999)
Facilities:1570 kHz, 5 kW day, 236 W night
Format: Sports KBRZ Freeport/Houston, Texas
Price: $700,000
Buyer: Aleluya Christian Broadcasting Inc., Pasadena, Texas (Roberto Ruben Villarreal, president); no other broadcast interests
Seller: Coastal Broadcasting Inc., Freeport (Jim T. Payne, president); no other broadcast interests
Facilities: 1460 kHz, 500 W day, 214 W night
Format: Country
Broker: John W. Saunders
WSTP Salisbury, N.C.
Price: $460,000
Buyer: Rowan Media Inc., Salisbury (T. Hilton Coates, president/95% owner)
Seller: Salisbury Media LLC, Lexington, N.C. (Greeley N. Hilton Jr., manager). Hilton has interest in WLXN(AM) - WWGL(FM) Lexington
Facilities: 1490 kHz, 1 kW
Format: News/talk
WPJC Adjuntas, Puerto Rico
Price: $450,000
Buyer: WPAB Inc., Ponce, Puerto Rico (Alfonso Gimenez Porrata, president/ 48% owner). Porrata owns 2.2% of WOLE-TV Aguadilla/Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
Seller: Tanama Communications Inc., Utuado, Puerto Rico (owners spouses Juan I. Perez Juarbe and Sonia Fernandez Pol); no other broadcast interests
Facilities: 1020 kHz , 1 kW
Format: Spanish
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