Travel Channel sold to Scripps Networks Interactive
The deal didn’t quite tip the $1 billion mark, but it values the cable network at $975 million. Cox Communications isn’t getting out completely,...
Transactions: 9-27-10
N/A KCOS-LP Phoenix AZ from Aracelis Ortiz Corporation (Arcelis Ortiz) to Paso de Fe/Widows Might Inc. (Julie Mejia, Arcelis Ortiz, Veronica Ortiz). Donation.
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...
FCC Gives Green Light To First Pre-Sharing CSA Sale
Just in time for Halloween, a "zombie" has surfaced in Washington. And, the Commission is comfortable enough with this creature living on an island off the coast of Los Angeles that it's treating it unlike Godzilla. That's because the FCC has given its approval to the first-ever transaction involving a channel-sharing agreement, a so-called "zombie" station resulting from the Commission's incentive auction, before the channel-sharing has even commenced.
Withers has success with failure
The formation of a television duopoly in the small Clarksburg-Weston DMA has survived a formal challenge and been given the go-ahead by the FCC....
Transactions: 10-26-09
N/A WQPT-TV Davenport IA-Rock Island-Moline IL (Moline IL) from Black Hawk College (R. Gene Gardner et al) to Western Illinois University (Alvin Goldfarb et...
Assorted Mintz get into Class A
Seven low power licenses in three high-powered markets are changing hands as part of the Equity Media Holdings auction off. Mako Communications, headed by...
Christian TV Operation Buys Citrus-Centric LPTVer
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.
Transactions: 4-25-11
$20M WFRV-TV Green Bay-Appleton WI (Green Bay WI) and WJMN-TV Marquette MI (Escabana MI) from WFRV and WJMN Television Station Inc., a subsidiary of...
Viles gets toehold in NY capital
Daniel F. Viles Jr. and his Cable Ad Net New York Inc. are getting low-budget entry into the Albany-Schenectady-Troy NY DMA with a Cobleskill...
Virginia television station goes to trustee
Millard S. Younts, Managing Member of EnVest Media, has been ordered by the US District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia to...
Not outfoxed, out of Foxes
Emmis has closed on the sale of its final television station, bringing to a close its tenure in the television business. Fox WVUE-TV is...