Gannett to buy six Texas stations
It’s a $215 million cash deal just announced for London Broadcasting Stations in Texas, including
Gray enters Montana
Gray Television has agreed to acquire three network-affiliated television stations in Montana for $2,000,000. The deal with
KSBS-CD being sold in Denver
A contract has been signed and an application is being filed with the FCC for the transfer of television station KSBS-CD (Independent--CTN)
WHPR-TV/W33BY-CD sold in Detroit
Highland Park Broadcasting LP’s (Robert J. Watkins, President) Religious/Community-oriented
News Corp scores a dismissal of US hacking suit
US federal judge Judge Paul Gardephe has dismissed a shareholder lawsuit in Delaware
Patrick, Prather on the Heartland-Chambers buy
Heartland Media (Oregon TV, LLC Robert Prather, CEO) has acquired three Oregon TV stations and
ACA praises Wheeler plan to stop retrans “collusion”
The American Cable Association commended FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler for circulating his order that takes a stand against collusive retransmission consent negotiations by separately owned TV stations and “calls upon the full Commission to adopt the proposals so that MVPDs, including independent cable operators, are spared from this practice in upcoming negotiations.”
LIN tower buy closes
Kalil & Co. announced the closing on the sale of towers in Savannah, Georgia, from Savannah Towers, LLC to LIN Media. Savannah Towers has no other broadcast interests. The Buyer, LIN Media has two TV stations in the market:
WMGM-TV sale closed
Access.1 Communications Corp.’s WMGM-TV Wildwood/Atlantic City, New Jersey (NBC), has sold to LocusPoint Networks (Bill deKay, Ravi Potharlanka) for...
“Weekend Adventure” nabs top syndie spot
Weekend Adventure (ABC Syndication) nabbed the top spot in the syndie ratings round-up for the week of December 9-15, with CBS Television Distribution’s Wheel...
Journal closes KMIR, KPSE sale
Journal Broadcast Group announced the closing of the sale of television stations KMIR-TV (an NBC affiliate) and My 13 KPSE TV (a MyNetwork affiliate)...
Redwood Television Partners picks up KVIQ-DT
A contract has been signed and an application is being filed with the FCC for the transfer of television station KVIQ-DT, Eureka, CA, from Sainte Partners II, LP to Redwood Television Partners LLC for $1,250,000.
Eagle buys USA Communications Systems
USA Communications announced 12/20 it has sold cable systems in Nebraska and Colorado to
Chesapeake Media adding two in NV
A contract has been signed and an application has been filed with the FCC for the transfer of licenses and associated assets of KRNV-DT, Reno and KENV-DT, Elko, Nevada (both NBC), from Sierra Communications, LLC and Ruby Mountain Broadcasting, LLC to Chesapeake Media I, LLC, which...
Upstate TV station goes at a bargain price
The sellers of WNMN-DT Saranac Lake NY had a better deal to sell five years ago when the station was but a CP – unfortunately that deal did not go through and the new price as an up-and-running facility is substantially reduced.