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Okay here's a new M&A regarding Gray. They purchase a class-A station in Augusta, Ga, WBEK-CD, for $550K. No telling on what they'll use it for.

As of this week, the Montana deals (KTVH to Cordillera & KMTF to Montana State) have been greenlighted.

Wow! Gotta get use to not hearing "7online", after all these years.....

This is repost, but it's worth mentioning that tomorrow will be the 20th anniversary of the deadly Heat Wave of 1995, at which on July 13, the air temperature reached at 104° at O'Hare and 106° at Midway. 739 people parished from this heat. From that dreaded day, here's the 10pm open from Channel 2, and a follow-up report from July 21. Videos Courtesy of GillSB8109 from YT.

So the KTVH paperwork is up. Cordillera is paying Gray $3M for the station. And since they moved the CW stream to KTVH's subchannel, Gray has turned off KMTF's main signal, as of last Thursday.

Stacey was doing it solo on the earlier block.

de Florias was the evening anchor at WEAR 3 in Pensacola.

I remember in 2000 when he was on weekends, he did the weekend evenings plus Sunday mornings. When they'd expanded to Saturday Mornings (the same time GMA weekend debuted), then he just did the Weekend Evenings only. I don't think I'd ever remembered him filling in on Saturday Mornings, although I wouldn't be surprised if this isn't the first time. EDIT: Amy stated that she will be doing the 6 & 11pm tonight.

I remember the only other time (outside the college football) they would use the 6pm open was when ABC carried the Belmont Stakes in June (of course, that has since moved to NBC).

Bob did the weather segments yesterday, as well as today.

We have a new M&A this morning. And it's related to a former Media General station. It appears that University of Georgia is selling it's Toccoa, GA's non-commercial station WUGA-TV (formerly WNEG-TV) to Marquee Broadcasting for $2.5M ($2,500,002). So it looks like to me that this group is another one of those 'speculators', who are only in to buy so they can cash-in after auction time. Remember this is the same Marquee Broadcasting that bought Salisbury's ABC affiliate WMDT in 2013.

:rofl!: :rofl!: LMMFAO!!!! You know I haven't heard anyone say that line in a minute.

: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.