TV Deals

Nexstar still says its bid for Media General is better than and MG-Meredith combo.

In November 2017, the FCC in a 3-2 vote eliminated its cross-ownership rules for newspaper and broadcast media and for radio and TV, respectively. The “Eight-Voices Test” was also erased. Now, one of the biggest TV deals to come since that vote has just been consummated.

A Georgia high court overruled a lower court decision about WAGT(TV), Augusta.

As astute RBR+TVBR readers likely know, "TV-49 Inc." is an entity tied to Norman Shapiro’s Weigel Broadcasting Co.  Quietly and with no comment, the Commission on Friday (10/20) gave its approval to an application filed Sept. 11 that sees Southern California License LLC selling the channel-sharing agreement for KAZA-TV, licensed to the island municipality of Avalon, Calif., to TV-49 for $9 million. Now, TV-49 is adding a pair of TV stations in Northern California and a pair of TV stations in the Pacific Northwest's biggest DMA.

With Sinclair Broadcast Group and Tribune Media agreeing to “resubmit or amend” their applications filed with the FCC in connection with MB Docket No. 17-179 — the formal name given to the review of Sinclair’s planned merger with Tribune, there's already some buzz regarding what changes have been made. A look at the FCC's database today suggests that it is abandoning its plan to own two of the top four stations in Pennsylvania's state capital.

Larry Patrick has found a buyer for Telemundo 40 KLTM-TV, which serves the Harlingen-Weslaco-Brownsville-McAllen TX – and it’s none other than the network to which the station is affiliated.