mrschimpf 2051 Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 There's a station in the Cleveland-Akron market that is for sale, according to TVNewsCheck: CLEVELAND, OHIO CLASS A TV FOR SALE Excellent market coverage of over 2.5 million people in the Cleveland DMA, including the urban and suburban areas of Cleveland and Akron. Pre-repack Ch. 16. Post-repack Ch. 27. 15KW at 1000ft in the Cleveland Antenna Farm. New transmission equipment. Contact Bill Klaus at 330-671-3351 or [email protected] That would be W16DO, part of the old CAT network that was done in with spectrum cash-ins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1944 Posted February 16, 2018 Author Share Posted February 16, 2018 New M&A. It looks like Estrella wants to buy Miami's WGEN for $11M. This deal has been greenlighted. Follow-up. This is very interesting. Because of the "soon-to-be?" elimination of the "Eight-Voice Test", Ion is buying WLWC outright (it also owns WPXQ). .....and this deal too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NowBergen 485 Posted February 16, 2018 Share Posted February 16, 2018 This deal has been greenlighted. .....and this deal too. As for the second, it is just the WLWC license. The station has been dark and CW programming moved to a subchannel on Nexstar's WPRI 12 (CBS) and WNAC 64 (Fox). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1944 Posted February 17, 2018 Author Share Posted February 17, 2018 As for the second, it is just the WLWC license. The station has been dark and CW programming moved to a subchannel on Nexstar's WPRI 12 (CBS) and WNAC 64 (Fox). WLWC is carrying Ion Life. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1944 Posted February 28, 2018 Author Share Posted February 28, 2018 Small new M&A. WJAX owner Bayshore Television, is selling the station to Hoffman Communications for $1.2M. Cox (owner of WFOX) will continue to operate WJAX. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
appleachian 128 Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 A CBS affiliate in Jacksonville is only worth $1.2 mil? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.L. Hughes 746 Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 A CBS affiliate in Jacksonville is only worth $1.2 mil? Yeah, that seems kinda piddly. Even when it was an independent station or a UPN affiliate, WJAX was more than likely worth more than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChesapeakeTV 310 Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 A CBS affiliate in Jacksonville is only worth $1.2 mil? Yeah, that seems kinda piddly. Even when it was an independent station or a UPN affiliate, WJAX was more than likely worth more than that. Consider that WTEV/WJAX is nominally the junior partner in the duopoly, and has been basically shelled out and/or twinsticked to WAWS/WFOX for almost 25 years now. The $1.2 million likely reflects the value of the license and transmitter facilities, and not much else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCB4TV 331 Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 New M&A. Ion is buying Ironwood's WPME in Maine for $900K. As per Our Maine, the current WPME intellectual unit, except Ion, will move to WPXT's spectrum on March 22. As per RabbitEars, the lineup will look like this: WPXT - RF 43 -> 34 51.1 WPXT CW 51.2 Me TV 51.3 WPME - from 35.1 51.4 Escape - from 51.3 51.5 Laff from 35.2 New Call Sign RF 35 -> 24 35.1 Ion - from 35.2 35.2 Qubo 35.3 Ion Life 35.4 Ion Shop 35.5 QVC 35.6 HSN Source: Any Ion Station 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1944 Posted March 19, 2018 Author Share Posted March 19, 2018 New M&A. It looks like Estrella wants to buy Miami's WGEN for $11M. Liberman closed the sale last Thursday. And has switched programming to Estrella over the weekend. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1944 Posted March 21, 2018 Author Share Posted March 21, 2018 A small M&A. Ramar wants to take advantage on the updated duopoly rules in Lubbock. They're buying Wolfforth, TX's CW station KLCW, from Woods (owner of Fox station KJTV-TV) for $100K. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1944 Posted March 30, 2018 Author Share Posted March 30, 2018 New M&A. Ion is buying Ironwood's WPME in Maine for $900K. The deal has closed. Have the programming changes went in effect earlier this week? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1944 Posted April 9, 2018 Author Share Posted April 9, 2018 A small M&A. Legacy Broadcasting is selling its North Dakota stations KNDM/KNDB to BEK Sports for $950K. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1944 Posted May 1, 2018 Author Share Posted May 1, 2018 A small M&A. Ramar wants to take advantage on the updated duopoly rules in Lubbock. They're buying Wolfforth, TX's CW station KLCW, from Woods (owner of Fox station KJTV-TV) for $100K. The deal was greenlighted on a SUNDAY?!!! (4/22). It is now completed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broadcastfan9751 136 Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 The deal was greenlighted on a SUNDAY?!!! (4/22). Might be a mistake since the FCC website says there was an amendment to the application submitted on the 26th, after it was supposedly granted. They might have approved it sometime this week but put the wrong date somehow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1944 Posted May 4, 2018 Author Share Posted May 4, 2018 A small M&A. RNN is buying another station. This time in the Delmarva. They're buying Western Pacific Broadcast's WMDE for $11.5M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1944 Posted May 9, 2018 Author Share Posted May 9, 2018 Small new M&A. WJAX owner Bayshore Television, is selling the station to Hoffman Communications for $1.2M. Cox (owner of WFOX) will continue to operate WJAX. The WJAX Hoffman deal is done. Closed yesterday (5/8). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1944 Posted May 22, 2018 Author Share Posted May 22, 2018 New M&A. Looks like Quincy wants to acquire KDLH & WISE outright. I guess since the shift of networks after the Granite deal (each are now standalone CW affils), these two stations are now fifth place. Purchase Price: $1.74M ($1,745,661 (WISE $952,884 & KDLH $792,557)) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrabbleship 427 Posted May 22, 2018 Share Posted May 22, 2018 New M&A. Looks like Quincy wants to acquire KDLH & WISE outright. I guess since the shift of networks after the Granite deal (each are now standalone CW affils), these two stations are now fifth place. Purchase Price: $1.74M ($1,745,661 (WISE $952,884 & KDLH $792,557)) Do sunchannels count in this equation? Doing a count of both markets I don't think a fifth place was possible. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRolyPoly 1844 Posted May 22, 2018 Share Posted May 22, 2018 New M&A. Looks like Quincy wants to acquire KDLH & WISE outright. I guess since the shift of networks after the Granite deal (each are now standalone CW affils), these two stations are now fifth place. Purchase Price: $1.74M ($1,745,661 (WISE $952,884 & KDLH $792,557)) In other words... KBJR would have NBC (6.1), CBS (6.2), MyTV (6.3) and The CW (3.1) WPTA would have ABC (21.1), NBC (21.2), MyTV (21.3) and The CW (33.1) But if anything, KDLH and WISE are spectrum bait, even if the auctions are finished and then I see The CW go on KBJR 6.3 or 6.4 and on WPTA 21.3 or 21.4, respectively. That's depending on whether or not KBJR and WPTA would like to combine The CW and MyTV stations together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atlnews2 557 Posted May 22, 2018 Share Posted May 22, 2018 New M&A. Looks like Quincy wants to acquire KDLH & WISE outright. I guess since the shift of networks after the Granite deal (each are now standalone CW affils), these two stations are now fifth place. Purchase Price: $1.74M ($1,745,661 (WISE $952,884 & KDLH $792,557)) Could we see CBS return to KDLH and NBC return to WISE once the deal is done ? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1944 Posted May 23, 2018 Author Share Posted May 23, 2018 Could we see CBS return to KDLH and NBC return to WISE once the deal is done ? That's the first thing that came through my mind. KDLH branding still have a "3" on it, despite being on 6.2. I wouldn't be all that surprised if "reverse" the move they did a couple of years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1944 Posted June 11, 2018 Author Share Posted June 11, 2018 Some M&As tonight. Pollack/Belz is selling KLAX to Lost Coast Broadcasting for $3.5M. Also Ion will be acquired four stations from TBN (Ohio's WDLI & WSFJ and Indiana's WCLJ & WKOI). WDLI will duo with WVPX in Cleveland, while WCLJ will duo with WIPX in Indianapolis. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2878 Posted June 11, 2018 Share Posted June 11, 2018 Some M&As tonight. Pollack/Belz is selling KLAX to Lost Coast Broadcasting for $3.5M. Lost Coast is owned by Brian Brady and Frontier Radio Management's Jason Wolff (Brady has the controlling share). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1944 Posted June 11, 2018 Author Share Posted June 11, 2018 Lost Coast is owned by Brian Brady and Frontier Radio Management's Jason Wolff (Brady has the controlling share). Don't know what Brady is going to do with this little station. Brady bought P/B's other station, KIEM. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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