This is the second time I have heard this, but the only mention of the sale of the Hartford station is to Gray not Allen.TEGNA will buy stations in Nashville and Allen Media Broadcasting will buy Hartford, CT.
Grey TV did purchase Meredith. I wonder what changes will be done, if any? Meredith in OR has a lot of translators. I hope they keep them up and going.You pretty much called it...Allen is buying up seven stations that would have to be offloaded in the Gray-Quincy acquisition. They include KVOA Tucson, WKOW Madison and its central Wisconsin satellite stations, WREX Rockford, IL, and KWWL Cedar Rapids, IA among others.
Byron Allen’s Allen Media Acquires 7 Gray TV Stations For $380M
ray Television said Thursday that it has sold seven television stations to Byron Allen's Allen Media Broadcasting for $380 million in cash.deadline.com
Allen is in acquistion mode at this point, for sure...he could very well go after the Meredith group, but I still believe that ViacomCBS and Fox will play a role in what happens.
Why is this? Sinclair already owns and/or controls through a shill THREE ! stations in this DMA. I know this, because it's the one I'm in. Not sure how they get away with that.Because of Meredith's ownership of WNEM (CBS) Bay City/Flint/Saginaw, MI, Gray would have to divest crosstown WJRT.
Oh, no, that's horrible! That station has the best group of sub-channels in our DMA, and Allen will likely ruin them.BREAKING NEWS: Gray Television to divest WJRT-TV Channel 12, its ABC affiliate for the Flint-Saginaw, Michigan television market to Allen Media for $70 million in cash
Allen Media Group Pays $70M To Acquire Gray Television’s WJRT, An ABC Affiliate In Michigan
Allen Media Group is continuing its run of local TV station acquisitions, paying $70 million to Gray Television for WJRT.deadline.com
Apparently NBC Universal did until 2018.It says in that article that Allen Media Group owns the Weather Channel??? I had no idea on that. I had in my mind that NBC or Comcast owned Weather channel.
I'm guessing Gray TV is in search of a better station/affiliate for that DMA...Oh, no, that's horrible! That station has the best group of sub-channels in our DMA, and Allen will likely ruin them.
Gray is keeping WYOW Eagle River and is converting that to a satellite of WSAW WausauMy guess is Gray TV will keep these stations:
WSAW-TV (CBS) 7, Wausau, Wisconsin
WZAW-LD (Fox) 33, Wausau, Wisconsin
WMTV (NBC) 15, Madison, Wisconsin
WEAU (NBC) 13, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
...while selling these former Quincy Media stations off to Allen Media:
WAOW (ABC) 9, Wausau, Wisconsin
WYOW (ABC) 34, Eagle River, Wisconsin
WMOW (The CW) 4, Crandon, Wisconsin
WKOW (ABC) 27, Madison, Wisconsin
WXOW (ABC) 19, LaCrosse, Wisconsin
WQOW (ABC) 18, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
WREX (NBC) 13, Rockford, Illinois
...these Quincy Media stations will be sold to Gray TV:
KTTC (NBC) 10, Rochester, Minnesota
Meredith's WNEM CBSI'm guessing Gray TV is in search of a better station/affiliate for that DMA...
A tangled web of divestitures in the Northwoods of Wisconsin...I bet they'll have to make changes to the call letters to reflect their new ownership...Gray is keeping WYOW Eagle River and is converting that to a satellite of WSAW Wausau
Gray is also keeping WREX
- Gray will divest ABC affiliate WAOW (Wausau) but plans to keep WAOW satellite WYOW (Eagle River), switching it over to Gray’s existing CBS/FOX affiliate WSAW (Wausau). It will still divest WAOW’s other satellite, WMOW (Crandon).
- FCC Filings Provide Details of Gray TV’s Plans for Quincy Media Stations – Upper Midwest Broadcasting
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