Combos
-- Broadcasting & Cable, 3/5/2001
WLAK(FM) Huntingdon and WIEZ(AM)-WMRF-FM Lewistown, Pa.
Price: $2.5 million (includes $1.95 million cash; includes three-year noncompete agreement)
Broker: First Media Radio LLC, Easton, Pa. (Alex Kolobielski, president/member; First Media Radio Holdings LLC, member [Richard E. Marriott, representative]); owns two FMs and one AM. Kolobielski also has interest in two other FMs and one other AM. First Media Radio Holdings' sole member, First Media LP, is also sole member of First Media Ventures LLC, which has interest in New Northwest Broadcasters LLC, which owns/is buying 27 FMs and 14 AMs
Seller: Mifflin County Broadcasting Co., Lewistown (Frank P. and Eleanor Troiani, owners); no other media interests.
Facilities:WLAK : 103.5 MHz, 160 W, ant. 1,427 ft.; WIEZ : 670 kHz, 5.4 kW day; WMRF-FM : 95.7 MHz, 3.9 kW, ant. 407 ft.
Format: WLAK : rebroadcasts WMRF-FM ; WIEZ : news, info; WMRF-FM : hot AC
WJWS(AM)-WSHV(FM) South Hill/Petersburg, Va.
Price: $1.05 million
Buyer: JBS Broadcasting Inc., Apex, N.C. (A. Thomas Joyner, principal); owns WHLF-FM South Boston/Danville and WJLC(FM) Clarksville/South Boston, Va., and WAZR(FM) Woodstock, Va.
Seller: Old Belt Broadcasting Corp., South Hill (Norman L. Talley, president); no other broadcast interests
Facilities: AM: 1370 kHz, 4.2 kW day; FM: 98.9 MHz, 15 kW, ant. 312 ft.
Formats: AM: gospel, rhythm & blues; FM: country
Broker: Patrick Communications
