Transactions: 2-17-09
$26M KCEN-TV & KMAY-LP Waco-Temple-Bryan TX (Temple, Bryan TX) from Channel 6 Inc. (Anyse Sue Mayborn) to KCEN License Company LLC, a subsidiary of...
Satellite heading to Wausau
Quincy Newspaper’s WAOW-TV (ABC) Wausau, WI is getting another satellite station, assuming the FCC grants its waiver request. It will pay $1.55 million to...
Transactions: 2-16-09
N/A WBRC-TV Birmingham AL (Fox) from Community Television of Alabama License LLC, a subsidiary of Local TV LLC (Bobby Lawrence). to WBRC License Subsidiary...
Erie LP goes from Bae to Bae
A small deal for a small station is going down in Erie PA. WLEP-LP is moving from KM Communications to Hapa Media Properties for...
Media General spin cycle comes close to target
The sale of five television stations by Media General was geared toward a payday of between $100M-$105M. Given the market for stations this past...
Transactions: 2-09-09
$1.6M W24AJ & W22DG-D CP Chicago IL (Aurora IL) from Nelson TV Inc. to Polnet Communications Ltd. (Walter K. Kotaba). $100K esc, balance in...
Florida price tag is $18 million
Nexstar had not initially disclosed how much it was paying Media General to enter the Jacksonville, FL market. The deal has now been filed...
LP is the Apple of Liberman’s eye
Hispanic specialist Liberman Broadcasting has to spend only $6M to gain entrée into the expensive New York media market – but it’ll be doing...
Transactions: 2-02-09
$10,309,992 KPXJ-TV Shreveport LA (Minden LA, CW) from Minden Television Company LLC (Lauren Wray Ostendorff) to KTBS Inc. (Edwin N. Wray, Lois Wray Rowe...
WMNT finally gets a home
A long-standing dispute over a low power television station in the Toledo OH DMA has finally been resolved. The battle has been winding through...
Nexstar moves into Florida
Media General is selling its CW WCWJ-TV in Jacksonville FL to Perry Sook’s Nexstar Broadcasting Group. The acquisition will mark Nexstar’s entrance into the...
Transactions: 1-28-09
$1M KFTY-TV San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose CA (Santa Rosa CA, indy) from Newport Television LLC (Sandy DiPasquale) to High Plains Broadcasting Inc. (James H. Martin)....
Sarasota cable deal didn’t close
The Sarasota Herald Tribune, owned by the New York Times Company, shut down its 24/7 local cable news operation, SNN News 6, at midnight...
Transactions: 1-26-09
$20,369 W57DU-D CP Miami FL (Rock Harbor FL) from Cayo Hueso Networks LLC (David M. Drucker) to Luna Digital Television LLC (William A. Vanderpoel)....
FCC waives through Boise buy
At first blush, the FCC was not inclined to allow Journal Broadcast Corporation to acquire CW KNIN-TV Caldwell ID in the Boise DMA, to...