TV Deals

An ABC affiliate in Alabama was poised to enter a duopoly via a JSA with Raycom. Now, the station is going to an entity tied to Heartland Media.

A Class D AM in Rapid City, South Dakota, with an FM translator is being sold. At the same time, an unbuilt AM that is scheduled to get an FM translator through the FCC's just-completed Auction 99 is trading hands in Southern Utah. We've also got a price on a Big D TV deal that RBR+TVBR first reported Sept. 28.

A low-power TV station serving a market impacted by Hurricane Harvey in 2017 is trading hands. This facility is the subject of a March 2012 Order to Show Cause issued by the FCC, seeking answers as to why Class A authorization should not be modified to LPTV. That involved a previous owner. Now, the current owner has decided to part ways with the facility, and it's the lead deal up for discussion in RBR+TVBR's TRANSACTIONS TODAY for Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018.

If you're stuck in Los Angeles traffic and just saw this headline, beware: We're not talking about the Spanish Broadcasting System FM known as "La Raza." Rather, this KLAX and its sibling are TV stations, and they've just been snatched by an entity connected to the President of El Dorado Broadcasters in a deal brokered by Kalil & Co.

AdLarge Media and WAVSTAR have partnered in an exclusive ad sales partnership which makes the cloud-based CRM/workflow management system available to radio stations on a barter basis for the first time. WAVSTAR integrates CRM, sales, and production with a station’s existing traffic system.

For the past 15 years, the people, places and events in Marion, Nelson and Washington Counties of Kentucky have had a low-power community focused TV station at their disposal. Now, this facility branded as "Central Kentucky Television" is being sold.

A digital low-power TV station licensed to Logan, Utah, is poised to leave the NBC Universal family. An agreement, submitted Tuesday with the FCC, shows that its Telemundo O&O arm is agreeing to part ways with the facility. The buyer? A local governmental entity.

A proposed sale of a LPTV station had recently been submitted to the FCC for its approval. However, the Commission dismissed the application. The legal counsel who made the filing said that was an error, tied to problems associated with the Commission's e-Filing system. He's correct, and the deal is back to "pending" status.

In November 2022, a Fargo-based media company signed off on paperwork awaiting FCC regulatory approval that will see it obtain a full-power TV station and a silent low-power TV station serving Sioux Falls, S.D. That transaction, which saw Kalil & Co. serve as the exclusive broker, has now closed.

Two Class A TV stations that got no takers in the just-concluded spectrum auction have just been sold. In both deals, Kalil & Co. acted as the escrow agent and the buyer's broker, while Patrick Communications represented the seller.

One of the nation's largest media companies serving Hispanic consumers has added a UHF property set to shift channels as part of the FCC's post-Incentive Auction repack process. It's in Texas' state capital, where this company enjoys already owns two TV stations — along with a pair of FMs. Kalil & Co. served as the exclusive broker in this transaction.

Halfway between the Walt Whitman Bridge and the Steel Pier alongside the Atlantic City Boardwalk is the town of Hammonton, New Jersey. It is here where a digital Class A TV station is being sold. This station debuted 32 years ago and in recent years has focused on the Spanish-speaking audience found in the Vineland, N.J. area in addition to across the Delaware Valley and Southern New Jersey. Now, this station is being sold. The buyer? Philip Falcone's HC2 Station Group.

In April, Ironwood Communications closed on the sale of a full-power UHF facility licensed to Lewiston, Maine, to ION Media Networks. Ironwood is in a selling mood once again and it selling an affiliate of The CW that carries MeTV and MyNetworkTV programming on its digital subchannels. The buyer is already in the market, which would create a newly permitted duopoly.