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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
Transactions: 3-10-08
N/A KFTY-TV San Fransico CA (Santa Rosa CA, indy); WOAI-TV San Antonio TX (NBC); KTVX-TV/KUCW-TV Salt Lake City UT (ABC, CW); WAWS-TV Jacksonville FL...
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...
Transactions: 3-03-08
3,037,500 KIDY-TV San Angelo TX (Fox/6) and KXVA-TV (Fox/15) from Sage Broadcasting Corporation (William J. Carter) to Bayou City Broadcasting LLC (DuJuan McCoy, Oliver...
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...
Transactions: 2-25-08
13.5M WTVE-TV Philadelphia PA (Reading PA, Ch. 51/DTV 25, indy) from George L. Miller, Chapter 11 Trustee, Reading Broadcasting Inc. to WRNN-TV Associates LP,...
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...
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,...
Transactions: 2-18-08
1.119B WJW-TV Cleveland OH (Ch. 8/DT 31, Fox); KDVR-TV & KFCT-TV Denver CO (Denver, Ch.31/DT, Fox, Ch. 22/DT 32, Fox); WITI-TV Milwaukee WI (Ch....
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...