Two New England LPTVs sold
$300K WRNT-LP Hartford CT; and WTXX-LP Springfield MA from R and S Broadcasting LLC (Salvatore Minniti) to Landover 5 LLC (Lawrence S. Zimmerman). $15K...
Olean Class A moving to new owner
$125K WVTT-CA Olean NY from Choice Tower Rental Inc. (Charles Bordonaro) to Milachi Media LLC (William Christian, Paige Christian). $35K cash at closing, $90K...
Falwell files to buy Virginia TV station
Jerry Falwell Jr.’s Liberty University is adding a broadcast television station to its holdings. WEFC-TV Danville is being bought out of receivership.
Side deals of the Gannett/Belo merger
$101,779,739 KTVK-TV/KASW-TV Phoenix AZ; KMOV-TV St. Louis MO; KGW-TV Portland OR; WHAS-TV Louisville KY; and KMSB-TV Tucson AZ from subsidiaries of Belo Corporation (Dunia...
Tribune/Local deal inspires jeers, fears
One watchdog looks at the $2.725B acquisition of Local TV by Tribune and sees an increase in harmful
Gannett folds in Belo TV stations
$2.2B WFAA-TV Dallas-Fort Worth TX (Dallas TX); KHOU-TV Houston TX; KING-TV & KONG-TV Seattle-Tacoma WA (Seattle, Everett WA); KTVK-TV/KASW-TV Phoenix AZ; KMOV-TV St. Louis...
Looking under the hood at the Gannett/Belo merger
The $2.2B deal that will bring the television properties of Gannett and Belo together with Gannett as the surviving entity has a lot of moving parts. In particular, there are two related deals that amount to resales, one of which tops the $100M threshold. Let’s take a look.
Wolff adds TVs in Wyoming
$2M KCWY-TV, KCHY-LP, KWSY-LP & K14LK Casper WY (Casper, Cheyenne, Sheridan, Laramie WY) from Bozeman Trail Communications Company, a subsidiary of Intermountain West Communications...
Done deal for Telemundo in Philadelphia market
WWSI-TV Atlantic City NJ, part of the expansive Philadelphia PA Nielsen DMA, is now officially part of the Telemundo Group, which is part of NBCUniversal, which is part of Comcast. The station was already an affiliate of the Hispanic network/station group.
Idaho television stations to the Wolff
$1M KPVI-DT Idaho Falls-Pocatello ID (Pocatello ID); and KXTF-TV Twin Falls ID from Oregon Trail Broadcsating Company/Falls Broadcasting Company, subsidiaries of Intermountain West Communications...
A looked at the merged Tribune/Local
The station portfolio of the new Tribune television group will be nothing short of awesome
Tribune scores latest TV acquisition blockbuster
If there was any doubt about Tribune’s strategic plan to emphasize its broadcast business
Massive multimillion LPTV extravaganza
$46.5M WKOB-LD New York NY; W25DW-D Chicago IL (Arbury Hills IL); KATA-CD/ KJJM-LD, KHPK-D/KNAP-LP/K31GL-D & KODF-LD Dallas-Fort Worth (Mesquite, De Soto, Britton TX); KUVM-CD/...
LPTV fan Landover 5 strikes again
Lawrence S. Zimmerman recently made a huge investment in the low power television universe, acquiring stations in multiple large markets from a consortium formed to sell them. And before the dust has cleared, he’s back – but this deal is much smaller.
Anatomy of an LPTV deal extravaganza
If the acquisition of stations by Landover 5 had been for full power television stations, it would have been one of the biggest deal stories of the year; the same if it had been a radio deal. But as it is, it’s a big deal, including 36 top-50 market outlets among the 52 stations dealt.