For months, Kevin Adell has been fighting for a decision from the Commission regarding his $75 million sale of WADL-38 in Mount Clemens, Mich., to Mission Broadcasting.
To persuade the Commission to approve the transaction, Adell had no less than five sessions with FCC Commissioners to plead his case. The Rev. Jesse Jackson penned two letters to the FCC on Adell’s behalf, noting the importance of the deal’s sale to African American minority shareholders and to the community. At the same time, the termination date for the WADL sale to Mission was pushed to June, in the hopes that the Commission would act before then.
Now, conditional approval of the deal has arrived. Adell couldn’t be more pleased.
