Hearst Completes Purchase Of WCWG
The sale, announced in October 2017, gives Hearst a duopoly in the market. It also owns NBC affiliate WXII and has been operating WCWG under a shared services agreement.
Four Lockwood Broadcast Group stations are no longer available on the satellite service: KAKE Wichita, Kan. (ABC); WHDF Florance, Ala. (CW); WCWG Lexington, N.C. (CW); and KTEN Ada, Okla. (NBC, ABC, CW).
It’s exercising an option to purchase Lockwood Broadcast Group’s CW affiliate that Hearst operates under a shared services agreement.
The former GM of WQCW Charleston-Huntington, W.Va., is tapped by Lockwood Broadcast Group to lead its CW affil in North Carolina.
Lockwood Broadcast Group’s CW affiliate WCWG Greensboro/High Point/Winston-Salem, N.C. (DMA 46), has had its ch. 20.4 subchannel that carries Bounce TV added to Time Warner Cable, on its ch. 1260. […]
Station Trading Roundup: 1 Deal, $2.75M
The sale of TTBG LLC’s WCWG Lexington, N.C., for $2.75 million tops the latest list of TV station transactions submitted to the FCC for its approval, according to BIA/Kelsey.
Exclusives
The purchase of the North Carolina CW affiliate will increase Lockwood’s TV station portfolio to six stations in five markets.
