Suburban Bancorp, and its successors due to multiple mergers and acquisitions, remained in control of Eaton's remaining radio station assets throughout the rest of the decade: Suburban merged into Sovran Bank on September 24, 1985, taking the Sovran name; Sovran merged into Citizen's and Southern Bank of Atlanta on July 25, 1990 as C&S/Sovran; C&S/Sovran merged with North Carolina National Bank on July 22, 1991 to form NationsBank. An attempted purchase of the stations and cable system by Boston-based venture capital fund TA Communications Partners for $123 million was announced on February 1989; an affiliate of TA had already acquired a 30 percent stake in United Broadcasting. In part because of a lawsuit filed against the estate by competing cable system Continental Cablevision claiming a right of first refusal agreement to purchase the system was not honored, the sale agreement between TA and United expired on January 1990 and the deal did not close.