It has the ability to reach 140,000 TV households in Citrus County and portions of Hernando, Sumter, Marion and Levy Counties in Central Florida. It has coverage on Channel 16 on Comcast and Bright House Network systems in this region of the Sunshine State.
Soon, it will be the property of Christian Television Corp., bringing a new era to this hyperlocal television facility.
In a deal brokered by Ryan Hadden of Hadden & Associates Nationwide Media Brokers, CTC is agreeing to pay $1 million for WYKE-CD, licensed to Inglis, Fla.
The seller is the Citrus County Association for Retarded Citizens Inc.
WYKE-CD 24 is a Class A digital low-power facility, and has offered a mix of local programming of non-secular and religious nature.
A $50,000 escrow deposit has been made to the seller by CTC.
Citrus County is within the sprawling Tampa-St. Petersburg-Lakeland-Sarasota DMA.
