Journal moves on Wisconsin LMA partner
NBC WGBA-TV Green Bay WI has been lending a helping hand to MNT WACY-TV Appleton WI since 1994. Now it wants to make the...
Univision The Winning Bidder For Gawker Media
A Univision spokesperson tells RBR + TVBR it has completed the bid process and anticipates the court's approval within 24 hours.
Frequent LPTV Buyer Scores Major Market
John Kyle’s DTV Corporation of America has almost single-handedly fueled
SagamoreHill’s Low-Cost Mid-Missouri Entry
In September, SagamoreHill Broadcasting made the news for its $23,000 entry into a Texas Gulf Coast market. Now, the company is gaining a presence in the middle of Missouri, thanks to the purchase of an LPTV facility in a big college town and another LPTV facility just southwest of the state capital.
ACME sells its Madison station
After reporting Q3 results for its remaining three stations, ACME Communications is moving to pare down to only two. As we noted previously, the last two stations are going to be the toughest to sell from what was once an 11-station group.
Class A Assignee will Forgive and Get
A Class A television station serving an area between Fayetteville NC and Myrtle Beach SC is headed for a new owner. In this case,...
Azteca América’s Biggest Affiliate Sells Its CSA Deal
The TV station airing the Spanish-language Azteca América broadcast network in the nation's No. 1 Hispanic DMA — Los Angeles — is trading hands. How is this possible, as the station participated in the FCC's Spectrum Auction? The party that holds its Channel-Sharing Agreement just sold the CSA to a Wisconsin-based player, making this a "zombie" deal that sees the transfer of programming rights, and not an actual broadcast TV facility.
Transactions: 4-11-11
$4M WLNE-TV Providence RI-New Bedford MA (New Bedford MA) from Matthew McGowan, receiver for Global Broadcasting of Southern New England to Citadel Communications LLC...
FCC clears MG/Hoak deal
Smart Media Group and the Mark Kennedy ’06 Campaign have failed to block the $60M sale of KALB-TV Alexandria LA (NBC) and WMBB-TV Panama...
Transactions: 11-30-10
N/A KYVV-TV San Antonio TX (Del Rio TX) from SAT10 LLC Debtor-in-Possession (Barbara Laurence) to SAT10 LLC (Barbara Laurence). Station emerging from Chapter 11...
Gray takes the low power road in Parkersburg-Marietta
There are no two ways about it -- the Parkersburg WV DMA is small – so small that Gray Television is the only broadcast...
Done deal helps Gray improves its ABCs
Gray Television’s acquisition of ABC affiliates in Flint-Saginaw-Bay City MI and Toledo OH has crossed the finish line
Transactions: 1-17-11
$75M WSFX-TV Wilmington NC; WFXG-TV Augusta GA; WXTX-TV Columbus GA; and WUPV-TV Richmond VA (Ashland VA). 100% of Southeastern Media Holdings Inc. from Community...
Equity stations still on the block
$21M worth of inventory from liquidating Equity Media Holdings Corporation have been spoken for, but there is still a good bit of inventory on...
WMNT finally gets a home
A long-standing dispute over a low power television station in the Toledo OH DMA has finally been resolved. The battle has been winding through...