Transactions: 2-11-08
10M WWSI-TV Philadelphia PA (Atlantic City NJ, 62/DT 49, Telemundo) from Hispanic Broadcasters of Philadelphia LLC (Steve Hillard) to ZGS Communications Inc. (Ronald G....
Small Texas TV group sold
The Texas television assets of Sage Broadcasting are blowing over to the portfolio of a new station group called Bayou City Broadcasting. Included in...
Transactions: 2-04-08
N/A WLMT-TV Memphis TN from Clear Channel Broadcasting Inc. (Mark Mays) to Aloha Station Trust LLC (Jeanette Tully). Placed in trust pending sale.
Journal eclipses Mirage in California desert
Milwaukee's own Journal Communications has closed on a second signal in the Palm Springs CA market. It already has NBC KMIR-TV there; now it...
French takes a ride on the Reading
If WTVE-TV Reading was on a Monopoly board, it would be one of those deeds turned over, the format Parker Brothers used to indicate...
Transactions: 1-28-08
100M KBEH-TV Los Angeles CA (Oxnard CA, Ch. 63/DT 24, MTV Tr3s) and KMOH-TV Phoenix AZ (Kingman AZ, Ch. 6/DT 19, MTV Tr3s) from...
Fox clears divestiture hurdle
The Federal Trade Commission said it's OK for News Corp. to sell eight Fox television stations to Oak Hill Capital Partners. The FCC still...
Tully puts a lei around one more
Clear Channel has sent another television property on a virtual Hawaiian vacation. WMLT-TV, which brings CW programming to the good people of Memphis TN...
ZGS acquires Philadelphia beachhead
What else would you call a television station on the easternmost fringe of the sprawling Philadelphia DMA, all the way over to Atlantic City...
Behar is pivot in TV deal
Robert Behar is both part of the selling and the buying group in a 100M deal which will send a pair of fringe large-market...
Close encounters along the Mississippi
The ION Media Networks deals to move WPXX-TV Memphis and WPXL-TV New Orleans from the LMA to the O&O column is complete. The landlord/seller...
Close encounter in Bakersfield
Fisher Communications' 55M acquisition of KBAK-TV CBS/29 and KBFX-CA Fox/27 is closed. The seller was Westwind Communications, which according to the contract will hang...
Minority groups back innovative Ion/Urban deal
The proposal for Ion Media to sell a co-licensee stake in its digital broadcast licenses to Urban Television has received the enthusiastic
Transactions: 1-03-08
6.6M KUQI-TV CP Corpus Christi TX from Minority Voice Media TV 38 LLC (Lee W. Shubert, court-appointed receiver) to High Maintenance Broadcasting LLC (Lauryn...
Texas DIY sold
Lee W. Shubert, working as a court-appointed receiver, has found a buyer for KUQI-TV CP in Corpus Christi, and the watchdog community may be...