TexasTVNews 1,028 Posted December 21, 2020 Share Posted December 21, 2020 8 minutes ago, CircleSeven said: Two new greenlights today. The WARZ-CD transaction to Capitol Broadcasting. And the Weigel acquisition of KAZD, KYAZ, KMOH (& KEJR-LD) from HC2 Holdings. Welcome to the DFW and Houston market, Weigel Broadcasting. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CircleSeven 1,329 Posted December 21, 2020 Author Share Posted December 21, 2020 1 minute ago, TexasTVNews said: Welcome to the DFW and Houston market, Weigel Broadcasting. It has yet to be finalized. But it's pretty much a forgone conclusion...... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CircleSeven 1,329 Posted December 23, 2020 Author Share Posted December 23, 2020 On 12/11/2020 at 11:26 PM, CircleSeven said: The FCC greenlighted the WLII deal to Liberman on Thursday (12/10). This means that Univision acquisition by Searchlight Capital & ForgeLight Investors should be approved soon. And here's it is. The FCC just greenlighted the Univision transaction. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Samantha 2,646 Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 On 12/21/2020 at 2:46 PM, TexasTVNews said: Welcome to the DFW and Houston market, Weigel Broadcasting. Took Weigel only about 40 years from their first attempt... (They competed for channel 45 for years before it was awarded to Pueblo, which started KXLN) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CircleSeven 1,329 Posted December 30, 2020 Author Share Posted December 30, 2020 The closings are happening before we say goodbye to 2020....... The Univision, WLII & WARZ transactions have been finalized. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CircleSeven 1,329 Posted December 31, 2020 Author Share Posted December 31, 2020 ....And along with WPIX (which we already mentioned), the Weigel acquisition was also finalized. No telling when they'll move the networks over to the new stations. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
justin2kx 208 Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 On 12/23/2020 at 12:30 PM, CircleSeven said: And here's it is. The FCC just greenlighted the Univision transaction. Re: WLII... if you believe this, (only source so far reporting it by this note) TVBoricuaUSA is reporting a familiar branding may return to old ch. 11. https://www.tvboricuausa.com/2020/12/regresa-teleonce-puerto-rico-univision-2021.html Translated: Following the approval of the sale of Univision by the FCC , channel 11 and its repeater stations in Puerto Rico will have a new identity. TVboricuaUSA sources assured that the channel will stop being called Univision and will become known as TeleOnce. The announcement, to be made shortly by Liberman Media Group, would mark TeleOnce's return to channels WLII-TV (channel 11) and its repeater stations WSUR-TV (channel 9) and WOLE-TV (channel 12), which since 2002 they became part of Univision. It should be noted that WSTE-DT (channel 7) and the Univision Radio stations will continue to be in the hands of Univision. So 'Univision Puerto Rico' branding to WSTE, perhaps? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Samantha 2,646 Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 Another station wants to go U: KCTS Seattle, which wants to trade in channel 9 and move to channel 17. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Samantha 2,646 Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 WWCP in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, is being transferred closer into Sinclair's orbit. Peak Media is selling the station to Johnstown (WWCP-TV) Licensee, which will be a Cunningham subsidiary. Peak already had brokered the station's time to Cunningham. Cunningham will acquire WWCP-TV's antenna, its Fox affiliation agreement, and its 1996 Interim Operating Agreement to operate WATM-TV for $2.85 million. This marks the exit from television for Peak's owners, Elliot Evers, Gregory Widroe and Brian Pryor. Evers and Widroe hold minority stakes in five Chico market radio stations in the Deer Creek cluster, and Evers is trustee for three divestiture trusts of radio stations run by Cumulus and Cox. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CircleSeven 1,329 Posted January 12 Author Share Posted January 12 (edited) Two Sinclair channel change PRMs have now advanced to NPRMs. KTUL from 10 to 14. KRCG from 12 to 29. Edited January 12 by CircleSeven Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CircleSeven 1,329 Posted January 21 Author Share Posted January 21 And to no surprise..... Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel is now the acting Chairwomen of the agency. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Samantha 2,646 Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 KBCB Bellingham, WA, is being sold to Radiant Life Ministries for $7.74 million. It had been owned by Venture Technologies. That valuation definitely reflects the fact that Vancouver and Victoria are in the signal contour... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mrschimpf 641 Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 2 hours ago, Samantha said: KBCB Bellingham, WA, is being sold to Radiant Life Ministries for $7.74 million. It had been owned by Venture Technologies. That valuation definitely reflects the fact that Vancouver and Victoria are in the signal contour... Not much of a loss from the $10 million Fox was going to buy it for in 2014 when they needed a backstop just in case they couldn't get the terms they wanted from Tribune for KCPQ pre-Nexstar purchase. Fox of course is pretty happy now with not having to run "Fox 24 Seattle" and a WBTS-esque mess of a translator network with a main tower 80 miles from downtown. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CircleSeven 1,329 Posted February 10 Author Share Posted February 10 New PRM today. KCBD wants to vacate VHF 11 for UHF 36. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JCB4TV 271 Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 20 minutes ago, CircleSeven said: New PRM today. KCBD wants to vacate VHF 11 for UHF 36. Would it be easier for Gray to move the KCBD NBC feed to the KLCW spectrum they just acquired? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CircleSeven 1,329 Posted February 10 Author Share Posted February 10 7 minutes ago, JCB4TV said: Would it be easier for Gray to move the KCBD NBC feed to the KLCW spectrum they just acquired? I don't think that's their plan. Why would you want to move to KLCW spectrum when they can be on its own UHF frequency? Along with moving UHF is to move from its current site to KJTV/KLCW's tower. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CircleSeven 1,329 Posted February 12 Author Share Posted February 12 (edited) New PRM. This time, its a Scripps station. They want to move KRIS off VHF 13 for UHF 26. I guess this is an oppurtune time to ask, as they're in the process of installing a new tower, after the old one collapsed last year. Edited February 12 by CircleSeven Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CircleSeven 1,329 Posted February 13 Author Share Posted February 13 A little Friday Dump. Nine more PRMs have advanced to NPRMs. WTOC (11 > 23) WRDW (12 > 27) KCRG (9 > 32) KFVS (11 > 32) KAIT (8 > 27) KVII (7 > 20) KHGI (13 > 18) KMYU (9 > 21) WAOE (COL change to Oswego, IL) 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dabx 27 Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 Question: If a station moves from a VHF to a UHF, are the station owners eligible for a UHF discount? Is their cap space lowered? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CircleSeven 1,329 Posted February 13 Author Share Posted February 13 Short answer on both is yes. With the loophole, UHF signals counts at 50% of the households (in contrast to 100% of HH for VHF). So that certainly help the owner's cap space. Not sure if this new Democratic-run FCC is going to attempt to get rid of it again. Wheeler got rid of it. And then Pai brought it back. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CircleSeven 1,329 Posted February 22 Author Share Posted February 22 Three PRMs have now jumped to NPRMs. Two of the petitions were just filed within the last two weeks. Damn that was fast. KCBD (11 > 36) KRIS (13 > 26) KSNB (4 > 24; Superior, NE > York, NE) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CircleSeven 1,329 Posted February 23 Author Share Posted February 23 There's an amendment in one of the Sinclair channel change PRMs. WCYB wanted to move from VHF-low 5 to UHF 30. They now proposed to move to RF 35 instead. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LexTVandRadio 317 Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 6 hours ago, CircleSeven said: There's an amendment in one of the Sinclair channel change PRMs. WCYB wanted to move from VHF-low 5 to UHF 30. They now proposed to move to RF 35 instead. I've always heard low VHF band signal is supposed to "bend" over these mountains? Figured that is why they stayed on channel 5 all these years. Going from a 90 mile contour 78.9 mile contour. With a lot of the Gray stations moving to from VHF to UHF like listed above, waiting on WYMT to get off channel 12, but at least it's not low VHF. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CircleSeven 1,329 Posted February 23 Author Share Posted February 23 On 1/3/2021 at 5:11 AM, CircleSeven said: Filed on New Year's Eve (12/31/20) is a Transfer of Control application of Standard Media from McDermott Communications to Community News Media, LLC (through a subsidiary Paducah Television Operations). Community News Media is the same firm that's filing to acquire the two Sinclair stations in Paducah, KY (KBSI/WDKA). Here's the organizational chart of the proposed change of guard of Standard Media. Follow-up. The transfer was consummated yesterday (2/22). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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