Saturday, August 23, 2025

Cox-Sinclair four-market TV deal details

$99M KFOX-TV El Paso TX; WTOV-TV Wheeling WV-Steubenville OH (Steubenville OH); WJAC-TV Johnstown-Altoona PA (Johnstown PA); and KRXI-TV/KAME-TV Reno NV from Cox Media Group...
Hubbard Broadcasting

Hubbard believes failure will allow it to double in Albany

WNYT is the NBC affiliate for the Albany-Schenectady-Troy DMA, and it belongs to Hubbard Broadcasting. Hubbard has a JSA with WNYA-TV, bringing MNT into...

LPTVs sold out of receivership

$10 WHDO-DC Orlando FL from Digital TV of Orlando LLC (Larry S. Hyman, receiver) to WP Stations LLC, a subsidiary of Western Pacific Broadcast...

Boise television station sold

$1.2M KKJB-DT Boise ID from Boise Telecasters LP (Gary Chocola) to IAM Broadcasting LLC (Diane Dostinich). $100K escrow, balance in cash at closing.

Multi-market LPTV deal reaches the finish line

Media Vista Group has closed on its acquisition of four low power television stations from SP Television. They quartet bring Univision programming to three markets....
Nexstar Broadcasting Group

Nexstar takes the keys for Vermont de facto duopoly

The deal in the Burlington VT-Plattsburgh NY DMA sending a Fox/CW affiliate to Nexstar Broadcasting Group and an ABC affiliate to partner licensee Mission Broadcasting...
SBG / Sinclair Broadcast Group

Sinclair strikes again: buys Barrington group

The television stations in the new smaller market group that Sinclair Broadcast started with the acquisition of Cox Media stations will not have a...
Gray Television

Gray KSNB buy enabled by FCC waiver

Gray Broadcasting asked for and received an FCC failing station waiver, enabling it to acquire KSNB-TV Superior NE and pair it up with KOLN-TV...
Marci Ryvicker

Rave reviews for Sinclair’s downmarket TV buy

Wells Fargo Securities analyst Marci Ryvicker has looked at the deal between Cox, Sinclair and a third party company and likes what
SBG / Sinclair Broadcast Group

Sinclair picks up Cox stations in four markets

Cox Media has been pruning its portfolio, and the latest move is to send a quartet of television stations to Sinclair Broadcast Group. In...

Family stations deals hit the finish line

Noncom religious group Family Stations has been in spin mode of late, and now two of its recent deals are closed. In the hands...

Hubbard doubles in Albany NY

Hubbard Broadcasting, the Minnesota-based group with both broadcast and television interests, is adding a second television station in New York’s capital market, Albany-Schenectady-Troy. It...

Fresno TV: O Say Can You KSEE

$26.5M KSEE-TV Fresno CA from KSEE License Inc., a subsidiary of Granite Broadcasting Corporation (Peter Markham) to Nexstar Broadcasting Inc. (Perry Sook). $20M initial...
Sold

Boise Daystar affiliate sold

Gary Cocola’s Boise Telecasters LP has applied to sell KKJB-DT in Boise ID – and the deal is one that will likely please regulators....

Double deal in Portland ME DMA

$1.525M WPXT-DT Portland ME from New Age Media of Maine (John Parente) to Ironwood Communications Portland LLC (David J. Joseph). $152,500 escrow, balance in...