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Saints come marching in for Emmis
New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson is also the principal owner of formed Louisiana Media Company LLC, which is planning to lay out 41M to ...Plenty of Wiegel room for Milwaukee TV
WJJA-TV is now officially in the hands of Weigel Broadcasting Corporation, according to brokerage firm Kalil & Company, which handled the transaction. The contract for ...Another Pegasus station flies off
A DIY project in the Gainesville FL DMA is getting a new owner. Eugene J. Brown's MPS Media is a third party in the transaction, ...New Age picks up MS DIY project
An unbuilt television station which has been kicking around the FCC CP database for over 10 years is going to a new owner in a ...Equity Media finds some liquidity
Troubled Little Rock television group Equity Media Holdings Corp. has announced financial difficulties, but on the plus side, it has 8M coming in a new ...DIY DT CP joins a flock
Marcus Lamb's Word of God Fellowship is acquiring the right to build a digital television station in Nielsen's DMA #61, more commonly known as Mobile ...Schurz drops anchor for northern NBC affil
The television, radio, cable and newspaper properties of Schurz Communications are centered in the Midwest and confined to the 48 contiguous states, but that's about ...Close encounter in Chattanooga
Eugene Brown's MPS Media of Tennessee is now firmly in control at CW WFLI-TV in Chattanooga TN, according to broker Susan Patrick of Patrick Communications. ...Raycom completes TV buy
Last week the FCC approved a temporary waiver to allow television group Raycom to hold two licenses in Richmond VA. With that bit of business ...Withers has success with failure
The formation of a television duopoly in the small Clarksburg-Weston DMA has survived a formal challenge and been given the go-ahead by the FCC. That ...Price revealed in the Deep South
Alexandria LA and Panama City are down there, as USA latitudes go, and those DMAs are where television properties have been sold as part of ...Price revealed in Lexington
We've known for a couple of weeks that Morris Multimedia is going to have a new market to call its largest, thanks to its acquisition ...MG motors out of two more markets
Media General just recently was able to announce the sale of its ABC WTVQ-FM Lexington KY to Morris Multimedia. It now is trumpeting the sale ...Media General spins begin
Morris Multimedia will have a new market to call its largest, and Media General will have one station off the shelf once the sale of ...TX TV reported sold
That's the word from Longview News-Journal.com. A 25M agreement is sending CBS KYTX-FM 19 from Max Media of Texas to London Broadcasting Company. KYTX also ...Log in
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