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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 ...
Full story 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 ...Why Martha bought Emeril: Bam was #6
We often aren't filled in on the real motivating factors behind a communications transaction. But this time, even though they did not participate in the ...Martha Stewart, Emeril Lagasse nuptials announced
No, they aren't getting married, but Emeril's television and print assets are being acquired by Martha Stewart Omnimedia in a deal announced at 50M, with ...Carport for Newport
Providence Equity Partners' Newport Television LLC is taking the precaution of placing nine full power and 25 LPTV/Class A television stations into the custody of ...Small Texas TV group sold
The Texas television assets of Sage Broadcasting are blowing over to the portfolio of a new station group called Bayou City Broadcasting. Included in the ...Journal eclipses Mirage in California desert
Milwaukee's own Journal Communications has closed on a second signal in the Palm Springs CA market. It already has NBC KMIR-TV there; now it has ...French takes a ride on the Reading
If WTVE-TV Reading was on a Monopoly board, it would be one of those deeds turned over, the format Parker Brothers used to indicate general ...Fox clears divestiture hurdle
The Federal Trade Commission said it's OK for News Corp. to sell eight Fox television stations to Oak Hill Capital Partners. The FCC still has ...Tully puts a lei around one more
Clear Channel has sent another television property on a virtual Hawaiian vacation. WMLT-TV, which brings CW programming to the good people of Memphis TN over ...ZGS acquires Philadelphia beachhead
What else would you call a television station on the easternmost fringe of the sprawling Philadelphia DMA, all the way over to Atlantic City NJ? ...Behar is pivot in TV deal
Robert Behar is both part of the selling and the buying group in a 100M deal which will send a pair of fringe large-market western ...Close encounters along the Mississippi
The ION Media Networks deals to move WPXX-TV Memphis and WPXL-TV New Orleans from the LMA to the O&O column is complete. The landlord/seller was ...Close encounter in Bakersfield
Fisher Communications' 55M acquisition of KBAK-TV CBS/29 and KBFX-CA Fox/27 is closed. The seller was Westwind Communications, which according to the contract will hang around ...
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Jose Lopez-Varela
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14 May, 2008 05:39:35
Halim,
Nice job, I commend you on the points you make in your post. The Acculturation process is very complex and truly require an expertise to ...
mark walker
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07 May, 2008 08:25:00
Paul- you are awesome! I am so glad to see you again!
Ray Somich
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05 May, 2008 07:11:27
As always, John Gorman tells it like it is, whether we want to hear it or not. How sadly ironic that radio's success has been ...
Jack Messmer
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04 May, 2008 10:25:01
Thanks for your comment.
Does anyone else want to weigh in supporting this move? Do the sweeps really matter that much these days?
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Tim Keating
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02 May, 2008 07:44:28
Am I the only one bothered by Nielsen's move from February 2009 Sweep to March 2009?
The announcement from Nielsen came as a surprise. ...