The sale by Citadel Communications of WOI Ames and KCAU Sioux City, both Iowa, and WHBF Rock Island, Ill., to Nexstar Broadcasting Group for $88 million tops the latest list of TV station transactions submitted to the FCC for its approval, according to BIA Kelsey.
WEEK ENDING SEPT. 16
Station Trading Roundup: 5 Deals, $111.8M
Multistate Deal — PRICE: $88,000,000 BUYER: Nexstar Broadcasting Group (Perry Sook, president/CEO/chairman) SELLER: Citadel Comm Co Ltd (Philip Lombardo, CEO)
Iowa: KCAU Sioux City & WOI Ames FACILITIES: KCAU-TV: DTV Ch. 9, 43.900 kW, ant. 2,021ft.; WOI-DT: DTV Ch. 5, 13.900 kW, ant. 1,857 ft. AFFILIATION: KCAU-TV: ABC; WOI-DT: ABC
Illinois: WHBF Rock Island FACILITIES: DTV Ch. 4, 33.700 kW, ant. 1,342 ft. AFFILIATION: CBS
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WICZ Binghamton & WBPN-LP Morris, N.Y. — PRICE: $15,250,000 BUYER: Mission Broadcasting (Nanci Smith, chairman, secretary) SELLER: Northwest Broadcasting (Jon Rand, vice president/COO) FACILITIES: WICZ-TV: DTV Ch. 8, 7.900 kW, ant. 1,217 ft.; WBPN-LP: Ch. 10, 0.004 kW, ant. 846 ft. AFFILIATION: WICZ-TV: FOX; WBPN-LP: MNT
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BRAND CONNECTIONS
KTLM Rio Grande City, Texas — PRICE: $8,500,000 BUYER: Comcast/NBC (Valari Staab, president NBC O&O TV) SELLER: W. Lawrence Patrick, receiver for Sunbelt Multimedia Co. (W. Lawrence Patrick, receiver) BROKER: Patrick Communications FACILITIES: DTV Ch. 40, 355.000 kW, ant. 1,893 ft. AFFILIATION: TEL
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WEDD-LD/Roanoke, Va. — PRICE: $6,000 BUYER: Jones Broadcasting LLC (Gregory Jones, managing member) SELLER: Brunson/Ross Communications (Edward Brunson, manager) FACILITIES: DTV Ch. 26, 15.000 kW, ant. 1,926 ft. AFFILIATION: IND
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W41DR-D Warner Robins, Ga. — PRICE: $0 BUYER: DTV Innovators (Mary Castelli, president) SELLER: Georgia Eagle Media Inc. (Cecil Staton, president) FACILITIES: DTV Ch. 41, 15,000 kW, ant. 722 ft.
Comments (2)
Ellen Samrock says:
September 17, 2013 at 7:53 pm
What? No used motor home this time?
Keith ONeal says:
September 17, 2013 at 9:21 pm
LOL