Oh, ‘My’: N.Y. Border Deal Ends Rogers Media’s Kingston Trio

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TORONTO — It’s a far-flung town in far Upstate New York that is technically within the Watertown TV market but is in air miles just a few miles away from Kingston, Ontario, Canada.


As such, one of Canada’s biggest media companies in 2011 grabbed a 20% stake in a 6kw FM licensed to this tiny municipality, using it to form a three-FM group serving Kingston.

Now, with fresh CRTC rules that can allow Rogers Media to own a Canadian property serving Kingston outright, it has engineered a deal that will not only see it shed its 20% stake in the FM but also see its remaining 80% equity holders say goodbye to the property.

The buyer? The co-founders of an owner of Ontario radio stations hyperfocused on small and medium-sized markets that just expanded to the Niagara Region.

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