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:rofl!: :rofl!: LMFAO!!!

It won't be long until they start Nexstar-ifying that website.

And the WTVA/WLOV deals are now done, as of Wednesday.

It's about time! I was wondering when she would move from per-diem.

We have two closings tonight. Both were consummated on Friday. First, one of three single-station Nexstar deals, the KASW one from SagamoreHill has been CLOSED. Second, the KCOY deal to VistaWest has also been CLOSED. Cowles has now closed its books in Cali. And we have a new M&A. Remember the Roberts Broadcasting stations WRBU & WZRB that went to a Broadcast Trust? It appears that we have a new buyer for those two stations. And that buyer (y'all ready) is Brian Brady!!! Through a new subsidiary Cedar Creek Broadcasting, Brady will be buying WZRB & WRBU for $6M.

.....and now the KLAS one has just been greenlighted.

Follow up time! It appears that the Yuma cluster now have a brand new website.

Well 368 days after posting this (and their eventual plan to re-evaluate any deal with a sharing arrangement), the FCC just greenlighted the KCOY deal to VistaWest (the shell of NPG).

Here it is. The whole deal of that was just $4.5M.

According to Asset Purchase Agreement (at p.20 (just press 24 on the PDF)) of the WVTM deal, the whole deal was $58M. If the building was just $3M, then all the other assets including programming was uber-expensive. Makes me wonder how much it cost for the property at WALA, when that deal was $28M more than WVTM's.

Sad news in the TV world. Lowell "Bud" Paxson, the creator of the Home Shopping Network & Pax TV, passed away on Friday, at the age of 80.

13 years and 9 months with the four of them together (with Roz, Tracy & Judy). I dunno if that's the longest tenured anchor team in the station's history though. But nevertheless, that was one hell of a sign-off this morning. After two decades, Mornings on 7 will surely be different without Hosea.

There's some interesting paperwork tonight. It appears that Gray is actually selling a station. It'll sale WQCW's translator station WOCW-LP to DTV America Corp. for get this, $100. DTV America Corp. owns a plethora of LP stations all across the country.

Follow-Up Time. It's been greenlighted.

Okay, the rest of the closing papers were posted yesterday (1/6). All closed on New Year's Day. ComCorp.

Looks like the long-lasted ComCorp may have finally been closed. Although (at this time) no announcement has been made. Although, if there's any indication, the WEVV deal to Bayou City was closed on New Year's Day. And Nexstar is now listing the ComCorp stations on its website.

This would look so good with the Gannett graphics.

Follow-up time. WTVA & WLOV made amendments to their applications (posted this morning), that stated that they were willing to modify its JSA to reduce it to no more that 15%. The FCC went ahead today and conditionally granted both deals. But on the grant, they were ordered to send an amendes JSA document to the FCC, before closing.

As stated back in October. WMBF's founding VP/GM Ted Fortenberry will be the new VP/GM of Jackson's WLBT. It appears Raycom has found a replacement from within. The station announced yesterday, that its News Director Sarah Miles has been promoted as new VP/GM of WMBF. And while Fortenberry returns to Mississippi to head WLBT, he won't be the only new face there. TVSpy stated that Jonesboro's KAIT's ND Hatton Weeks will become the new ND of WLBT.

It appears to be a done deal. Feder stated that Scott could be starting at Channel 7 by the end of the year.

Former WSET weekend meteorologist Lyndsay Tapases, has been hired as a new meterologist at Charlotte's WBTV 3. She will be starting on the last week of this month.

Well it's about time. WFTS is expanding its morning news offerings. TVNewsCheck states this morning that on January 12th, WFTS will start its morning newscast @ 4:30am. It will also have an hourly 9am newscast, after Good Morning America.

Well ICYMI, there were several FCC approvals yesterday. There was a reasoning behind this. The FCC issued this statement yesterday, stating about making good on their promises to boost minority ownership. The majority of the Gray Spinoffs, the three former Allbritton stations to HSH, the two ComCorp stations to Marshall, and the WEVV deal to Bayou City were among the deals that were greenlighted yesterday. I believe the FCC's starting point in all of this, was their infamous letter they sent to Sinclair, almost one year to the day (12/6/13). I think that moment started to change the atmosphere in this M&A craze.

Alrighty. At last!!! The FCC has conditionally granted the KPEJ/KMSS apps to Marshall. The FCC has also greenlighted the WEVV deal to Bayou City. Therefore, after 19 months, the ComCorp acquisition has FINALLY been greenlighted.

I also want to point out. If you want to look how the M&A craze is affected, look at the Quad Cities market. Within one year, all the major stations have new owners. 4 = Citadel > Nexstar 6 = Young > Media General 8 = Local TV > Tribune 18 = Grant > Marshall (Nexstar) 26 = Grant > Nexstar