Mako Communications, a Texas limited liability company has closed on the sale of the construction permit for low-power television station K07AAJ-D Bakersfield, Calif., to Roseland Broadcasting. The sale price was […]
Mako Communications, a Texas limited liability company, has agreed to sell the construction permit for low-power television station K07AAJ-D (Facility ID No.181741), Bakersfield, Calif., to Roseland Broadcasting. The sale price […]
Mako Communications, a Texas limited liability company, has agreed to sell the construction permits for low-power television stations K28QM-D Beaumont, Texas, and K25QM-D Palm Springs, Calif., to Major Market Broadcasting […]
Mako Communications, a Texas limited liability company, has closed on the sale of the construction permits for K11XS-D Modesto, Calif., and K23PH-D Chico, Calif., to Major Market Broadcasting of California. […]
Mako Communications, a Texas limited liability company has closed on the sale of the construction permits for K10RU-D and K12XN-D both Salinas, Calif., to Rubin Broadcasting. The sale price was […]
Mako Communications LLC, a Texas limited liability company has closed on the sale of the construction permits for W33EP-D Key West, Fla., and K32OR-D Palm Springs, Calif., to Scripps Broadcasting […]
Exclusives
TV transactions of late have also included deals involving unbuilt low-power TV stations. With a sign-on deadline of Tuesday, time is rapidly ticking for those seeking to spin these facilities and cash out. Then, there’s a group of LPTVs for sale that are a bit unique. How so? They don’t need to be built until 2023.
A federal court on Tuesday ruled against a challenge to part of the FCC’s ongoing process of reassigning TV spectrum to mobile providers and the resulting repack of the TV band. The Appeals Court in Washington denied a challenge from Mako Communications, an LPTV operator, to the FCC’s decision not to extend protections to its operations following the repack. The court said that the FCC’s decision not to offer the protections did not change the rights of LPTV broadcasters, since full-power stations already have priority when it comes to using wireless spectrum.
Pay-For-Play Is Growing Diginet Strategy
By buying time on station subchannels rather than splitting ad revenue with an affiliation deal, multicast networks remain in charge of selling inventory and the stations collect a monthly fee with a minimum of effort and outlay. However, the upcoming spectrum auction could make subchannel space to rent a scarcer commodity. This is part 3 of a three-part special report. Read parts 1 and 2 here.
