Alpha Media Sells Bluefield, WV Cluster To First Media Services For $1.825 Million

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ALPHA MEDIA LICENSEE LLC is selling Country WHKX/BLUEFIELD-WHQX/GARY, WV (106.3-107.7 KICKS COUNTRY); Hot AC WHAJ (J104), Classic Hip Hop WKEZ-A-W254CV (G98.7), and News-Talk WHIS-A/BLUEFIELD, WV; and Classic Rock WKOY (EAGLE 100.9)/PRINCETON, WV to CHARLES R. SPENCER III and RICK LAMBERT's FIRST MEDIA SERVICES, LLC for $1.825 million.

The buyer owns Country WELC-A/WELCH, WV; Country WAMN-A-W233CL-W247BO (WILLIE 94.5)/GREEN VALLEY, WV; WKQR (92.7 KISS FM)/MULLENS, WV; Hot AC WKQB (MIX 102.9)/POCAHONTAS, WV; and a permit for W227DU/WELCH, WV.

In other filings with the FCC, IDAHO CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS, INC. is selling KTSJ/MENAN, ID to HI-LINE RADIO FELLOWSHIP, INC. for $20,000.

GERALD R. PROCTOR is selling K237HB/HUNTSVILLE, TX to CARLOS LOPEZ for $40,000.  The primary station is listed as STAR RADIO NETWORK Country KIVY-F/CROCKETT, TX.

NEWMAN BROADCASTING, INC. has requested a Silent STA for WJTK/COLUMBIA CITY, FL, telling the FCC it expects the appointment of a receiver.

And TEMPLO NUEVA VIDA, INC. has filed for a Silent STA for low power KORM-LP/CORONA, CA after discovering that part of a phone line used to send programming from a new studio location to the transmitter had been removed.

Also, GADSDEN STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE's WSGN/GADSDEN, AL is ending its simulcast of UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA BIRMINGHAM News-Talk-Classical-Jazz WBHM/BIRMINGHAM on SEPTEMBER 30th after 25 years and is being sold.  WBHM reports that the station is being sold to a "nonprofit, faith-based broadcaster" and that it was offered a chance to bid on the station but could not match the price.  WBHM will continue the simulcast on W283CM/FORT PAYNE, AL in the northern portion of the WSGN coverage area and WBHM's primary signal reaches the western and southern portion of the GADSDEN area.

And the Commission issued Notices of Unlicensed Operation to JEAN ROBERT VALSAINT (98.1 FM, MIAMI) and EFRAIN LANCHI ORTEGA (95.9 FM, QUEENS, NY).

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