synopsis: Corus Entertainment Inc. announced that the Company has reached an agreement to purchase the specialty television services Drive-In Classics and SexTV from CTVglobemedia.

synopsis: Local TV, parent company of WTKR NewsChannel 3 in Norfolk, VA, announced it has signed an agreement to purchase heritage WGNT-TV, CW27 in the designated market area (DMA), from CBS Corporation.

synopsis: British Sky Broadcasting has acquired Virgin Media Television (VMtv). VMtv is the content subsidiary of Virgin Media. It is a British television company providing content via seven channels: LIVING, LIVINGit, Virgin1, Bravo, Bravo2, Challenge, and Challenge Jackpot.

synopsis: Canwest Global Communications Corp. announced that agreements have been reached between Shaw Communications Inc., certain of the senior subordinated noteholders of Canwest Media Inc., and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners and certain of its affiliates that contemplate a purchase by Shaw of all of the shares of a restructured Canwest.

synopsis: The BBC is selling its 50 percent stake in TV channels Animal Planet and Liv to joint venture partner Discovery Communications Inc. for $156 million.

synopsis: BCE Inc. announced that it has completed its $3.2-billion acquisition of CTV, Canada's #1 television network, and launched Bell Media, a new business unit encompassing all CTV and other Bell content assets.

synopsis: Newspaper and magazine proprietor Richard Desmond has bought TV channel Five, it was announced today. RTL said it had signed an agreement for the sale of Five Group to the Northern & Shell company owned by Mr Desmond and that the deal was closed with immediate effect.

synopsis: Philip Arno and Donald Angelo formed ITV of Buffalo LLC., to buy WNGS-TV from Daystar Television, a Christian broadcast nonprofit based in Bedford, Texas, according to The Buffalo News. They paid a reported $2.75 million for the station on the condition that Daystar power it back up.

synopsis: Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. announced that it has closed the asset acquisition of Four Points Media ("Four Points") from affiliates of Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. Four Points owns and operates seven stations in four markets, reaching 2.65% of the U.S. TV households.

synopsis: Bolloré and CANAL+ Groups have announced a strategic partnership involving Bolloré’s free channels. The proposed agreement provides for CANAL+ Group to acquire a stake of 60 % in the Bolloré Group’s television business, which includes the Direct 8 and Direct Star channels.

synopsis: Scripps Networks Interactive Inc. and Virgin Media Inc. announced that Scripps Networks Interactive has completed the acquisition of Virgin Media’s stake in UKTV, one of the United Kingdom’s leading multi-channel television programming companies, following regulatory approval in the Republic of Ireland and Jersey.

synopsis: Una Vez Mas, LP (UVM) has acquired KEMO TV 50, Santa Rosa, California from High Plains Broadcasting, Inc. and Newport Television. The station was formerly named KFTY and will continue to serve the San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose area, the ninth-largest Hispanic DMA (Designated Television Market Area) in the US.

synopsis: Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Inc. completes the acquisition of the assets of WFRV-TV and WJMN-TV, the CBS affiliates serving the Green Bay, Wisconsin and Marquette, Michigan markets, respectively, from an affiliate of Liberty Media Corporation.

synopsis: ACME Communications, Inc. announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell WBXX in Knoxville to the Lockwood Broadcast Group for $5.6 million. The all-cash transaction is subject to the approval of the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") and is expected to close by the end of the second quarter of 2011.

synopsis: London Broadcasting Company has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire KIII-TV from Channel 3 of Corpus Christi, Inc., a company controlled by Michael D. McKinnon and his family. KIII-TV is the ABC affiliate serving the citizens of Corpus Christi and South Texas and is located in the 129th television market in the US.

synopsis: Freedom Communications announced that it has reached agreement to sell The Telegraph in Alton, IL, The Journal-Courier in Jacksonville, IL, The Sedalia Democrat in Sedalia, MO and The Lima News in Lima, OH, to an affiliate of Philadelphia-based private equity firm Versa Capital Management, LLC.

synopsis: New Vision has reached a definitive agreement to sell its local broadcast group to LIN Television Corporation. LIN TV will acquire the assets of New Vision's owned stations. New Vision's assets include 17 stations in eight television markets: Portland, Birmingham, Honolulu, Wichita, Savannah, Youngstown, Topeka, and Mason City.

synopsis: KUQI Licensee, LLC, an affiliate of National Communications, Inc., announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the FCC station license, network affiliation and all programming contracts of KUQI-TV Fox Channel 38 from High Maintenance Broadcasting, LLC.

synopsis: London Broadcasting Company, Inc., the owner and operator of Texas-based media properties, announced that it has completed the acquisition of KTAQ-TV. The station is located in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas television market and serves a population of 7.2 million people in more than 2.5 million households.

synopsis: Acme Communications announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell CW affiliate broadcast channel WBUW Madison, Wis. (DMA 85), to the Byrne Acquisition Group LLC. Byrne Acquisition Group owns low-power television broadcast station, WHHI Hilton Head based in S.C.

synopsis: BCE Inc. announced that it has completed its $3.2-billion acquisition of CTV, Canada's #1 television network, and launched Bell Media, a new business unit encompassing all CTV and other Bell content assets.

synopsis: Corus Entertainment Inc. announced that the Company has reached an agreement to purchase the specialty television services Drive-In Classics and SexTV from CTVglobemedia.

synopsis: Corus Entertainment Inc. announced that the Company's acquisition of CLT (Canadian Learning Television) from CTVglobemedia is complete. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approved the acquisition on August 22, 2008 and Corus took over ownership and operation of CLT on September 1, 2008.

synopsis: Rogers Media and CTVglobemedia Inc. announced an agreement under which Rogers Broadcasting, a Rogers Media subsidiary, would acquire five Citytv conventional television stations from CTVglobemedia Inc.

synopsis: Corus Entertainment Inc. announced they have reached an agreement with COGECO Inc. for Cogeco to purchase the Corus Quebec radio stations, which include stations located in Montreal (French and English), Quebec City, Gatineau, Sherbrooke, Trois-Rivières and St-Jérôme.

synopsis: Corus Entertainment Inc. announced that the Company has reached an agreement to purchase the specialty television services Drive-In Classics and SexTV from CTVglobemedia.

synopsis: Corus Entertainment Inc. announced that the Company's acquisition of CLT (Canadian Learning Television) from CTVglobemedia is complete. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approved the acquisition on August 22, 2008 and Corus took over ownership and operation of CLT on September 1, 2008.

synopsis: Corus Entertainment Inc. has reached an agreement with CanWest MediaWorks to purchase Winnipeg radio station CJZZ 99.1 Cool FM and Kitchener radio station CKBT 91.5 The Beat. The acquisition price for the two stations is approximately $15 million Cdn.

synopsis: Astral Media Inc. and Corus Entertainment Inc. today announce that they have reached an agreement to acquire the remaining 20% of the TELETOON network from the shareholders of The Cookie Jar Group.

synopsis: ConnectedMedia Technologies, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of X-Change Corporation, announced that it has received the approval of the Secretary of State of Florida to close on the 52% of Global Broadcasting Systems, LLC, (GBS), a media company that operates in Radio, Television and Digital Media/Internet.

synopsis: Fisher Communications, Inc. announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its twenty-four small-market radio stations located in Montana and eastern Washington to Cherry Creek Radio LLC for $33.3 million. In 2005, Fisher's small-market radio stations generated revenue of $12.2 million.

synopsis: Fisher Communications, Inc. announced that it has entered into an agreement to purchase certain television stations from Equity Broadcasting Corporation for $20.3 million. The stations include full-power KPOU in La Grande, Oregon, and KPOU LP in Salem, Oregon, which currently provide Hispanic programming to the Portland, Oregon market.

synopsis: SBS Broadcasting S.A. and PKS Media S.a.r.l, a company controlled by funds advised by two leading private equity firms, Permira and KKR, announced today that PKS Media has completed the previously announced acquisition of substantially all of the assets and liabilities of SBS. PKS Media will be renamed SBS Broadcasting S.a.r.l.

synopsis: The New York Times Company has entered into an agreement to sell its Broadcast Media Group, consisting of nine network-affiliated television stations, their associated Web sites and the Digital Operating Center, to Oak Hill Capital Partners for $575 million. The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals.

synopsis: The New York Times Company and Oak Hill Capital Partners announced today the closing of the sale of The New York Times Company Broadcast Media Group to Oak Hill Capital Partners.

synopsis: Completion of the purchase deal between Lavena Holding 4 GmbH, a holding company controlled by funds advised by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and funds advised by Permira, respectively, and German Media Partners L.P. for the sale and purchase of its majority interest in ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG has occurred.

synopsis: Consolidation of Canadian broadcasting is about to take a giant step forward with a 1.7 billion Canadian dollars ($1.5 billion US) proposed deal for Bell Globemedia to take over CHUM Ltd.

synopsis: BCE Inc. (Bell) announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of Montréal-based Astral Media Inc. and its leading specialty and pay television channels, radio stations, digital media properties and out-of-home advertising platforms in Québec and across the rest of Canada.

synopsis: Ericsson announced that it has submitted a binding offer to acquire the Broadcast Services Division of Technicolor, a worldwide technology leader in the media and entertainment sector, headquartered in France. The closing of the acquisition is subject to relevant customary regulatory administrative approvals and consultations.

synopsis: The McGraw-Hill Companies has completed the sale of its nine-station Broadcasting Group to The E. W. Scripps Company. The Broadcasting Group includes ABC affiliates in Denver, CO, San Diego, CA, Bakersfield, CA, Indianapolis, IN and Azteca America affiliates in Denver, Fort Collins, Colorado Springs, San Diego and Bakersfield.

synopsis: CanWest Global Communications Corp. announced it has entered into a lock up agreement with HT Media Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of certain funds managed or advised by Ironbridge Capital Pty Limited, an Australian private equity firm, to sell all of the shares of CanWest MediaWorks (NZ) Limited that it holds.

synopsis: Rainbow Media Holdings LLC, the programming subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corporation has completed the acquisition of Sundance Channel from General Electric Company’s NBC Universal, CBS Corporation’s Showtime Networks, and entities controlled by Robert Redford.

synopsis: EchoStar Communications Corporation (Nasdaq: DISH) and Gemstar-TV Guide International, Inc. (Nasdaq: GMST) announced today that EchoStar has completed its purchase of the Superstar/Netlink Group LLC (SNG), UVTV distribution and related assets from Gemstar-TV Guide.

synopsis: Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) today announced that it has completed the purchase of TechTV from Vulcan Programming, Inc. and, as planned, will merge it with G4, the Comcast-owned television network devoted to video games and the gamer lifestyle.

synopsis: America Movil, Latin America's largest wireless company, agreed to buy DLA Inc. from Claxson Interactive Group Inc, adding video-on-demand programming and Latin America cable-TV channels including Playboy TV and the Concert Channel.

synopsis: DH Capital, LLC, a New York City based investment banking firm, announced that it represented Galaxy Cablevision in their recent sale of certain of its Kansas cable systems to Eagle Communications, Inc.. The cable system serves approximately 2,700 customers in central Kansas.

synopsis: KUQI Licensee, LLC, an affiliate of National Communications, Inc., announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the FCC station license, network affiliation and all programming contracts of KUQI-TV Fox Channel 38 from High Maintenance Broadcasting, LLC.

synopsis: Journal Broadcast Group, a subsidiary of Journal Communications, Inc., announced that it has reached an agreement to purchase 106.9 KHTT FM (Contemporary Hits) and 92.9 BOB FM (Adult Contemporary Variety) in Tulsa, OK, from Renda Broadcasting Corporation.

synopsis: London Broadcasting Company, Inc., the owner and operator of Texas-based media properties, announced that it has completed the acquisition of KTAQ-TV. The station is located in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas television market and serves a population of 7.2 million people in more than 2.5 million households.