Station Trading Roundup: 5 Deals, $20.9M

KAKE Wichita, KGBD-LD Great Bend, KHDS-LD Salina, KLBY Colby, KUPK Garden City, K25CV-D Hays, K38GH-D Russell, all Kansas — PRICE: $11,200,000 plus WBXX Crossville, Tenn. BUYER: Lockwood Broadcasting Group (David Hanna, president) SELLER: Gray Television Inc (Hilton Howell Jr, president/CEO/vice chairman) FACILITIES: KAKE-TV: DTV Ch. 10, 56.500 kW, ant 1.016 ft.; KGBD-LD: DTV Ch. 30, 15.000 kW, ant. 397ft.; KHDS-LD: DTV Ch. 51, 15.000 kW; ant. 223 ft.; KLBY-TV: DTV Ch. 17, 625.000 kW, ant. 732 ft.; KUPK-TV: DTV Ch. 13, 63.000 kW, ant. 861 ft.; K25CV-D: DTV Ch. 25, 15.000 kW, ant. 236 ft.; K38GH-D: DTV Ch. 38, 15.000 kW, ant. 443 ft. AFFILIATIONS: KAKE-TV: ABC; KGBD-LD: ABC; KHDS-LD: ABC; KLBY-TV: ABC; KUPK-TV: ABC; K25CV-D: ABC; K38GH-D: ABC COMMENT: Gray Television is exchanging these Kansas stations for Lockwood Broadcasting Group’s WBXX Crossville, Tenn. and $11.2 million.

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KTOV-LP, KXPX-LP and KUQI-DT, all Corpus Christi, Texas — PRICE: $9,250,000 SELLER of KTOV & KXPX: GH Broadcasting (Robert Behar, managing member of parent) SELLER of KUQI: High Maintenance Broadcasting LLC (Robert Behar, managing member of parent) BUYER: Sinclair Broadcast Group (David Smith, president/CEO) FACILITIES: KTOV: Ch. 21, 95.000 kW, ant 310 ft.; KXPX: Ch. 14, 8.000 kW, ant. 310 ft.; KUQI: DTV Ch. 38, 50.000 kW, ant 810 ft AFFILIATIONS: KTOV: My: KXPX: RTV; KUQI: Fox

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KYES-TV, KYEX-LP, K22HN-D Anchorage, K09XO-D Homer, K06MF Kenai, all Alaska — PRICE: $500,000 BUYER: Gray Television Inc (Hilton Howell, Jr., president/CEO/Vice Chairman) SELLER: Fireweed Communications LLC (Jeremy Lansman, president) FACILITIES: KYES: DTV Ch. 5, 15.000 kW, ant. 909 ft.; KYEX-LP: Ch. 18, 11.400 kW, ant.-328 ft.; K22HN-D: DTV Ch. 22, 2.800 kW, ant. 102 ft.; K09XO-D: DTV Ch. 9, 0.300 kW; ant. 676 ft.; K06MF: Ch. 6, 1.440 kW, ant.322 ft. AFFILIATIONS: KYES-TV: My; KYEX-LP: My; K22HN-D: My; K09XO-D: My; K06MF: My COMMENT: Gray requests that the FCC waive its local television ownership rule to permit this assignment, because KYES-DT, which is located in the Anchorage DMA, is a “failing” station.    

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KOTA Rapid City, KHSD Lead, both South Dakota — PRICE: $1 BUYER: Legacy Broadcasting (Sherry Nelson, president, manager SELLER: Gray Television Inc (Hilton Howell Jr, president/CEO/vice chairman) FACILITIES: KOTA-TV: DTV Ch. 2, 18.200 kW, ant 709 ft.; KHSD-TV: DTV Ch. 10, 34.800 kW, ant. 1,890 ft. AFFILIATION: KOTA: ABC: KHSD: ABC COMMENT: Gray Television is selling all of KOTA Rapid City’s assets, including FCC licenses, real estate, programming agreements and retransmission consent agreements, other than those assets used for KOTA’s ABC program stream, to Legacy Broadcasting for $1.Gray will keep KOTA’s ABC affiliation which it will move to KEVN at closing. The sale also includes KOTA’s satellite station KHSD Lead, SD.

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KVTN-DT Pine Bluff, KVTH-DT Hot Springs, KVTJ-DT Jonesboro, all Arkansas — PRICE: Assumption of Liabilities BUYER: Victory Television Network (H L Caldwell, II, president)  SELLER: Agape Church Inc (Scott Stewart, president) FACILITIES: KVTN: DTV Ch. 24, 725.000 kW, ant. 1,166 ft.; KVTH: DTV Ch. 26, 66.400 kW, ant.846 ft.; KVTJ: DTV Ch. 48, 780.000 kW, ant. 974 ft. AFFILIATIONS: KVTN: IND; KVTH: IND; KVTJ: IND