San Francisco television station going to LPTV group owner
Jeff Chang has several low power television stations, and now is planning to add his first full-power operation to his group. The station is...
Goodman buys shares of Houston indy from Ponzi schemer
Financier R. Allen Stanford is facing charges for allegedly running a huge multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme and is currently awaiting trial. Meanwhile, his stake...
FCC gives the go-ahead for small market TV combo
Nothing succeeds like failure when trying to create a television duopoly pairing in a market generally too small to support such a combination. The...
Transactions: 6-21-10
$1.00 WMNT-CA Toledo OH from Matrix Broadcast Group Inc. (Robert Pitts) to Community Broadcast Group Inc. (Jesse Weatherly et al). Cash.
ACME shuffles its executive deck in wake of LIN deal
Television group ACME Communications will be in the back seat in a set of LMA-type arrangements with LIN Media affecting stations in Albuquerque-Santa Fe...
Transactions: 6-18-10
$16.5M WGNT-TV Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News VA (Portsmouth VA, CW) from The CW Television Stations Inc., a subsidiary of CBS Corporation (Leslie Moonves) to Local TV...
Take my Toledo TV — please
The corridors of Wall Street will not be shaken by the latest in television station trading from the northwest portion of Ohio. WMNT-CA is...
Price to build Tidewater television twosome revealed
We knew that CBS was selling its semi-O&O, CW WGNT-TV, to the licensee holding affiliation rights to CBS’s top network – Local TV and...
Local TV doubles up as CBS spins out of Tidewater
Group operator Local TV and CBS Television already have a relationship in Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News. Local TV is CBS’s local network affiliate. Now Local TV...
Transactions: 6-9-10
$650K TV CP Tupelo MS from New Age Media of Pennsylvania Licensee LLC (John Parente) to Christian Television Corporation Inc. (Robert D’Andrea, Virginia Oliver,...
Big TV sale in UK – Virgin Media TV to BSkyB
British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) announced a deal to buy Virgin Media’s TV channels for 160 million pounds ($232M). BSkyB is 38% owned by News...
Transactions: 6-7-10
$51K WSPY-LD Plano IL. 51% of WSPY TV Inc. from Nelson Enterprises Inc. (Larry Nelson, 100% to 49%) to Jennifer Beckman (0% to 25.5%)...
LIN and ACME enter into conditional nuptials in three markets
LIN Media will be in the driver’s seat in a set of shared services agreements with ACME Communications in Albuquerque-Santa Fe, Dayton OH, and...
Tupelo TV CP sold
Christian Television Corporation, which operates numerous full- and low-power television stations, is getting a DIY television project in Tupelo MS set to operate on...
Transactions: 5-27-10
$75K KUVM-CA CP Dewalt TX and KCPV-LP Victoria TX from Club Communications (Gerald Benavides) to Mako Communications LLC (Amanda Mintz et al). Cash.