Sunday, May 3, 2026

Details of the Cox/Newport dealings

$235M KMYT-TV/KOKI-TV Tulsa OK and WAWS-TV Jacksonville FL from Newport Television LLC (Sandy DiPasquale) to Cox Media Group. Cox is also acquiring WTEV Jacksonville...

Jackson MS TV getting into the American Spirit

$12M WDBD-TV & WXMS-LP Jackson MS (Jackson, Natchez MS) from Jackson Broadcasting LLC (Marc Jaromin) to WDBD License Subsidiary LLC, a subsidiary of American...

Deal details for Newport, Sinclair and friends, Pt. II

$6M WJYC-TV & WPMI-TV Mobile AL-Pensacola FL (Mobile AL, Pensacola FL) from Newport Television LLC (Sandy DiPasquale) to Deerfield Media Inc. (Stephen P. Mumblow)....
SBG / Sinclair Broadcast Group

Nexstar sells Texas TV to Sinclair surrogate

The main contract for KBTV-TV Port Arthur TX is between television groups Nexstar and Sinclair. But the actual buyer will be Deerfield Media, which...

Deal details for Newport, Sinclair and friends, Pt. I

$412.5M WOAI-TV San Antonio TX; WHP-TV/WLYH-TV Harrisburg PA; WKRC-TV Cincinnati OH; KSAS-TV, KAAS-TV, KMTW-TV & KOCW-TV Wichita KS (Wichita, Salina, Hutchinson, Hoisington KS); and...

Newport, Nexstar and Mission deal details

$225,536,000 WIVT-TV Binghamton NY; WETM-TV Elmira-Corning NY (Elmira NY); WLMT-TV/WPTY-TV Memphis TN; WJKT-TV Jackson TN; KTVX-TV & KUCW-TV Salt Lake City UT (Salt Lake...

New-Press & Gazette grabs Columbia MO television pair

$16M KMIZ-TV & KQFX-LD Columbia-Jefferson City MO (Columbia MO) from JW Broadcasting LLC (Gene Steinberg) to NPG of Missouri LLC, a subsidiary of News-Press...
Deal

Bonten teams with Esteem to double up in two California DMAs

Brokerage firm Kalil and Co. has announced a deal in which one seller has contracted with two

Little Rock low LPTVs changing hands

$60K KTVV-LP Hot SpringsAR from KMYA LLC (Larry Morton, Gregory Fess) to Pinnacle Media (Gregory Fess, Byron Southern, Michael Fess). Cash. N/A KKYK-CD Little...

Licensee shift for NH noncom TV group

N/A WENH-TV Durham NH; WEKW-TV Keene NH; and WLED-TV Littleton NH from University System of New Hampshire Board of Trustees (Peter A. Frid) to...

Buyer steps forward for Orlando noncom TV

$3.3M WMFE-TV Orlando FL from Community Communications Inc. (Jose A. Fajardo) to University of Central Florida (Michael J. Grindstaff et al). $330K escrow, $1.07M...
SBG / Sinclair Broadcast Group

Sinclair’s Newport-built Mobile-Pensacola quartet

The Newport Television stations being bought by Sinclair include two in the Mobile AL-Pensacola FL DMA, and that’s a problem, because Sinclair already has...
Deal

Inside Sinclair’s San Antonio Newport dealing

Sinclair Broadcast Group is buying a Newport Television station in the San Antonio DMA, but it already has two stations there. That’s where acquisition...

New owner coming to Louisville TV station

N/A WBKI-TV Louisville KY (Campbellsville KY) from Louisville TV Licenses LLC (Barbara Laurence) to L.M. Communications TV LLC (Lynn M. Martin). Buyer prevailed at...
Sold

TV dealings in the Jackson MS market

A flurry of FCC filings reveal maneuvers in Jackson MS that will place American Spirit Media in the odd position of having a JSA...