Fisher shareholders weigh in on Sinclair merger
To merge or not to merge, that was the question, and by an overwhelming margin, shareholders of Fisher Communications stock approved the proposal to...
Fisher spins Idaho Falls TV
$4.5M KIDK-TV Idaho Falls ID from Fisher Broadcasting S.E. Idaho TV LLC (Colleen Brown) to VistaWest Media LLC (Lyle Leimkuhler). Buyer stepping in for...
Young side of MG-Young merger
N/A KRON-TV San Francisco CA; WKRN-TV Nashville TN; WRIC-TV Richmond VA (Petersburg VA); WTEN-TV & WCDC-TV Albany-Schenectady-Troy NY (Albany NY, Adams MA); WATE-TV Knoxville...
Gray and Excalibur team up to acquire Grand Junction TV
Three companies, two full power television stations and five television networks figure in a deal in Grand Junction CO, in the extreme western portion of the state. Gray will be buying certain asset from owner News-Press & Gazette, and Excalibur will be acquiring a separate set of assets.
Media General side of merger with Young
N/A WFLA-TV Tampa-St. Petersburg FL (Tampa FL); WNCN-TV Raleigh-Durham NC (Goldsboro NC); WCHM-TV Columbus OH; WSPA-TV & WYCW-TV Greenville-Spartanburg SC-Asheville NC (Spartanburg SC, Asheville...
LPTV stations go into spin cycle
CNZ Communications no sooner closed on a deal to acquire nine low power television outlets from a Viacom subsidiary under the Cabellero brand then it turned around and resold three of them. According to brokerage Kalil & Company, the nine-station deal closed 7/29/13, while two new deals for three stations landed on the FCC doorstep 8/1/13.
Putting a price on the Media General/Young merger
Word that Young Broadcasting was merging into Media General surfaced in June, and Bloomberg
Seller not going away entirely in Bend TV deal
Scott Chambers' Three Sisters Broadcasting will break the cliché – it’ll be NOT gone but not forgotten after it sells KOHD-TV Bend OR to...
Sinclair is all in for Allbritton
Chalk up another blockbuster acquisition for rapidly-growing Sinclair Broadcast Group. It is getting the all-ABC all-the-time television
TV on the Norfolk fringe sold
$1,104,944.20 WSKY-TV Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News VA (Manteo NC) from Sky Television LLC (William T. Lamm III) to Tidewater TV LLC (James Lockwood, David A. Hanna,...
Sebring FL LPTV sold
$85K WGPS-LP Sebring FL from Bella Spectra Corporation (Kristina C. Bruni) to TV38 of Southwest Florida LLC (Jeanette R. Showalter). $50K deposit, balance in...
Brady doubles down in Yuma
Brian Brady’s Blackhawk Broadcasting filed to buy NBC KYMA-TV in the Yuma AZ-El Centro CA DMA back in June – and now it has a deal to add CBS KSWT-TV in a deal with Lee Shubert, who is liquidating assets of the failed Pappas television group.
Group owner grabs stake in OBX TV station
OBX is the local abbreviation for North Carolina’s Outer Banks communities, anchoring the southern extremity of the Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News VA DMA. It is being sold to a group of investors including group-owning triumvirate James Lockwood, David Hanna and Pamela Lawson.
Third sale in less than three years for Sebring LPTV
The license for what is now WGPS-LP Sebring FL has gone from Trinity Christian Center of Santa Ana to Rehoboth Beach Communications to Bella...
Danville VA TV liberated from receiver
$1M WEFC-TV Danville VA from Millard S. Younts, Receiver to Morning Star Broadcasting LLC, a subsidiary of Liberty University Inc. (Jerry L. Falwell Jr.)....