Friday, July 11, 2025

Transactions: 7-15-09

$1M WLZE-LP/WTLE-LP/WEVU-CA & WUVF-CA Fort Myers-Naples FL (Fort Myers, Naples FL from Equity Media Holdings Corporation Debtor-in-Possession (Kim Kelly, Chief Restructuring Officer) to Silver...

Local TV closes on Fox 8-pack

Eight former Fox O&Os are now in their new corporate home at Local TV LLC. The $1.1 billion sale announced at Christmastime has gone...

KALO finds its One Love

Honolulu’s KALO-DT Channel 38 is getting a new owner. The noncommercial facility is heading from Pacifica Broadcasting Company, headed by Christopher Racine, Judith Racine...

Greeley is really in Trinity’s travel plans

Paul Crouch’s Trinity Christian Center is grabbing another large market television station, but this time, it’ll have to build it itself. KJPR-DT CP is...
Tower

A Sales Window Opens For Ventana

Two low-power television stations in the Midwest have been sold to a Maryland-based broadcaster

Transactions: 2-25-08

13.5M WTVE-TV Philadelphia PA (Reading PA, Ch. 51/DTV 25, indy) from George L. Miller, Chapter 11 Trustee, Reading Broadcasting Inc. to WRNN-TV Associates LP,...
FOX

Fox drops the other affiliation shoe in Seattle

Fox has bought a television station serving the northern fringe of the market

Transactions: 6-1-09

$50K WBVT-CA/WGMU-CA, W61CE, W52CD, W19BR, W54CV, W36CP, W61CE, W49BI & W17CI Burlington VT-Plattsburgh NY (Burlington, Rutland, St. Albans, Monkton, Barre, Newport VT, Ellenburg NY,...
LPTV

Another LPTV Station with Prospects Sold

WDWW-LP does not project a signal over any major US population centers

Week September 6-12, NBC led with 'Back to Football Week'

NBC dominated the primetime ratings week of September 6-12, led by "Back to Football Week" NFL programming and "America's Got Talent," which lifted the...
Philip Falcone

HC2 Snaps Up Another LPTV

There is one company that stands out from the pack with respect to TV station acquisitions. Since the end of the FCC's spectrum auction, the Philip Falcone-led HC2 Holdings has been rapidly snapping up television properties — the majority of them low power properties. In the latest deal to involve HC2, a Class A facility in Tennessee that is presently silent is being snapped up.
AD Large Media

A ‘Large’ Ad Sales Partnership For WAVSTAR

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.
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Nexstar Nets A Non-Spectrum Asset Win

In a transaction that the company says will be "highly accretive" to its operating results immediately after a Q4 closing, Nexstar Media Group is acquiring the non-spectrum operating assets of the CW affiliate serving DMA No. 52. It's a nice bonus payday for the seller, which had no pre-Auction CSA but gained one ahead of relinquishing this station's spectrum for a winning bid of $125,932,367.
Sold

London closes on Texas TV package

Brokerage firm Kalil and Co. says that the keys have changed hands for a pair of full power Texas television stations and five associated...

Transactions: 4-16-08

16.5M WTVQ-TV Lexington KY (ABC) from Media General Communications Holdings LLC, a subsidiary of Media General Inc. (James Zimmerman) to WTVQ-TV Inc., a subsidiary...