Station Trading Roundup: 1 Deal, $100,000
The sale of WYCC Chicago by Community College District #508 to Window To The World Communications tops the latest list of TV station transactions submitted to the FCC for its approval, according to BIA/Kelsey.
WYCC’s Imminent Shutdown Cost 12 More Jobs
WYCC To Be Sold In Incentive Auction
The financially strapped City Colleges of Chicago, licensee of PBS member station WYCC, has decided to participate in the upcoming spectrum auction.
The next time you hear Mayor Rahm Emanuel talk about the city’s financial problems, remember the deal he just turned down. In response to a suggestion here Thursday that could have netted City Colleges of Chicago a cool $474 million by auctioning off the license of its little-watched public TV station, the mayor flatly rejected the idea
Exclusives
Myers, a developer of broadcast management software, has installed a shared operational facility for Twin Cities Public Television (TPT), based in St. Paul Minn., to deliver programming and trafficking services to noncommercial WYCC Chicago. The newly established environment, which will be managed and supported by Myers’ ProTrack software, serves as the backbone of TPT’s Joint […]
