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Transactions: 12/5/05-12/9/05

TV came back into play in the first full week of December, and provided enough oomph to allow a few radio agreements (and another small TV transaction) to push the week over 100M in value. Still, almost all of the action was taking place in smaller markets.

Total Mkts 1-50 Mkts 51-100 Mkts >100

Unrated

AMs

6

1 0 2 3
FMs

12

0 0 10 2
TVs

2

0 0 2 0
Total 20 1 0 14 5

Type of deal

Deals Stns Value
Radio, 1 mkt

6

10 5.86M

TV, 1 mkt

2 2 87M

Rad-TV, 1 mkt

0 0 $0

Radio, multimkt

1 8 12.4M

TV, multimkt

0 0 $0

Rad-TV, multimkt

0 0 $0
Totals 9 20 105.26M

TV Deal of the Week
Gray takes over for Notre Dame
Notre Dame U.'s for profit South Bend-Elkhart NBC affiliate, WNDU-TV, is going to Gray Television Group for 85M, assuming the FCC finds no conflict with Gray's 25-mile distant newspaper in Goshen.

Radio Deal of the Week
This Bond is called Double O Texas
Terry Bond's Double O radio group is expanding with a 12.4M deal for three Odess-Midland FMs and one-AM, four-FM cluster in San Angelo. Seller Tommy Vascocu will stay on to run the stations.





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