TV Deals

Just in time for Halloween, a "zombie" has surfaced in Washington. And, the Commission is comfortable enough with this creature living on an island off the coast of Los Angeles that it's treating it unlike Godzilla. That's because the FCC has given its approval to the first-ever transaction involving a channel-sharing agreement, a so-called "zombie" station resulting from the Commission's incentive auction, before the channel-sharing has even commenced.

A low-power VHF TV operation in a small Deep South town has just been sold. It's the lone deal up for discussion in a soft day at the FCC in RBR+TVBR's TRANSACTIONS TODAY for Wednesday, Feb. 14.

RBR+TVBR on Monday reported on the acquisition of an affiliate of The CW that carries MeTV and MyNetworkTV programming on its digital subchannels by a company with a formidable presence in New England. This deal would, if approved by the FCC, create a duopoly in Maine's biggest market. Terms including the price and escrow payment have now been disclosed.

A low-power Iowa TV station operated by Bahakel Communications via a Shared Services Agreement with a company that assumed would be its new owner is heading back to the company that intended to sell it due to "problems" it suffered. Instead, a Georgia LPTV is being assigned.

Gray Television is picking up a quintet of television translators presently tied to a full-power station presently offering This TV programming. It is tied to an intellectual property play that gives Gray the local FOX affiliate -- pairing it with its ABC and NBC affiliates serving the Sioux Falls, S.D. market.

While Cox maintains a dominant position in the Dayton-Springfield market of Ohio, Nexstar Media Group has a formidable presence, too. It owns the local NBC affiliate.  Soon, it will also own a second station in this market.

Until now, Regina Davis and her Buma Group has served as the licensee of a low-power digital TV station serving Texarkana, the market straddling Texas and Arkansas. Now, the property is being sold. And, it marks yet another LPTV deal for the company that last year merged with Meredith Corp. and acquired Quincy Media.

Gray Television has proven to be a big buyer of low-power television stations across the U.S. across 2022. Now, Gray is at it again, and is agreeing to purchase a trio of LPTVs

In the past, it was New York's home for music video channel The Box, and for now-defunct Spanish-language television networks MundoFOX and MundoMax. Today, it airs America TeVe programming. But, that will soon change as the low-power TV station is being sold.

USA Communications announced 12/20 it has sold cable systems in Nebraska and Colorado to

It's awfully quiet out there in Deal City and Transactions Town. What gives? According to one key industry observer, everybody's waiting ... and eyeing the radio business' three biggies. This insider also sheds some light on the overall atmosphere for buyers and sellers, and if any talk about Townsquare Media selling stations is just folly.

An entity that describes itself as “a publicly traded diversified holding company which seeks opportunities to acquire and grow businesses that can generate long-term sustainable free cash flow and attractive returns in order to maximize value for all stakeholders” is growing again. This time, it has acquired a pair of low-power TV stations in the Sunshine State, and it is our "Mega"-sized deal in RBR+TVBR's TRANSACTIONS TODAY. 

More than two years after a deal was struck that would have transferred a full-power MyNetwork TV affiliate in Arkansas' state capital and its low-power simulcast serving the market to an affiliate of The Pollack Companies, the transaction has finally closed.