T.L. Hughes 746 Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 Saga Communications has put up WXVT in Greenville, Mississippi for sale, and the company buying the CBS affiliate has ties to the owner of two other stations in the Greenville-Greenwood market. H3 Communications, LLC is buying the station for $3,000,000, which would make the station H3’s only media property if the FCC approves the sale. H3 is owned jointly by Christopher, Timothy and Jamie Harker, the adult sons of Charles Harker, who owns Commonwealth Broadcasting Group, which owns ABC affiliate WABG and NBC affiliate WNBD-LD. Charles is supplying the cash necessary to make his sons' acquisition possible, which if the FCC approves it would have one family controlling all three commercial network affiliates in the same market and the four network affiliations among them (WABG also carries Fox on its second digital subchannel). Due to FCC regulations barring ownership of two full-power stations in a market with less than eight stations, Commonwealth will operate WXVT under a shared services agreement with H3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bammy9 26 Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 Can that even happen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weeters 1806 Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 Can that even happen? Welcome to the world of loopholes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhratbrat 423 Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 oh wow that is a very unique loophole Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1944 Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 Well it's been over eight months now. And the FCC has yet to give it its approval of the sale of WXVT to this "H3" firm from Saga Communications. This document which was posted on the FCC site back in September stated someone made an objection of the proposed sale, arguing that giving H3 WXVT would create a 'monopoly' in the Greenville, MS market. Also on this document, it ask if Charles Harker, the head honcho of Commonwealth Broadcasting is the what they say a "real-parties-of-interest" in this transaction. Whatever the case, as of now, its still a waiting game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Former Member 207 Posted January 17, 2013 Share Posted January 17, 2013 Can that even happen? It has here in Los Angeles; case in point, Walter Ulloa, an executive at Entravision Communications, owns Spanish/multi-ethnic station KJLA, while his brother Ronald owns two local similarly-formatted stations of his own, KVMD and KXLA. The two latter stations simulcasts the main signal of the other on one of its subchannels, and KJLA use to simulcast a subchannel of one of the two other stations (I forget which) on one of its streams. Not much fuss, if any, is raised because of the vast size of the market, and the three Ulloa stations aren't exactly ratings blockbusters like similarly-programming channels in the market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1944 Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 And going on nine months, guess who finally received FCC approval yesterday?? Speaking of the devil..... First Lima, Ohio, then Victoria, Texas, now Greenville, Mississippi. Media Monopoly, here we come.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mre29 1340 Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 And going on nine months' date=' guess who finally received FCC approval yesterday?? Speaking of the devil..... First Lima, Ohio, then Victoria, Texas, now Greenville, Mississippi. Media Monopoly, here we come.... The Lima situation is truly insane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1944 Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 And here's the document ruling in favor of H3 Communications and not the guy who filed that complaint. I still think its going to be one house, four networks. They'll keep two houses for certain purposes. Saga don't have anything to worry about selling WXVT, since they basically have Victoria, TX locked. The Lima situation is truly insane. And Block got it locked in little Lima. They originally said that nothing was going to be consolidated but they later turned a 180 and everything moved to the WLIO studios. And then made WTLW (the only other TV station not owned by anyone else in the market) to sign a non-compete clause. You're right, that's truly insane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1944 Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 And the deal is done!!! Completed that damn quick!!! And after the FCC approved it a couple of days back, the transaction was immediately completed. Now the Harker family have Greenville, Mississippi LOCKED!!! Saga ain't got nothing to worry about, because they have Victoria, Texas locked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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