synopsis: Toronto-based broadcaster Rogers Media unveiled a revised deal to acquire 100% of the publicly-funded educational broadcaster, Saskatchewan Communications Network, after Ontario-based Bluepoint Investment Corp., which acquired SCN a year ago, decided to cash out.

synopsis: Espresso Group and Channel 4 have reached an agreement in principle for Espresso to merge Channel 4 Learning, Channel 4’s award-winning education rights exploitation business, into its portfolio of businesses. The transaction is subject to Espresso shareholder approval and is expected to complete before Easter.

synopsis: Toronto-based broadcaster Rogers Media unveiled a revised deal to acquire 100% of the publicly-funded educational broadcaster, Saskatchewan Communications Network, after Ontario-based Bluepoint Investment Corp., which acquired SCN a year ago, decided to cash out.

synopsis: Toronto-based broadcaster Rogers Media unveiled a revised deal to acquire 100% of the publicly-funded educational broadcaster, Saskatchewan Communications Network, after Ontario-based Bluepoint Investment Corp., which acquired SCN a year ago, decided to cash out.

synopsis: Rogers Media Inc. has struck a deal to acquire Montreal-based Internet advertising company BV! Media Inc. for $25 million in cash. BV! Media is a leading Canadian Internet advertising network and is the publisher of the Branchez-Vous! news and information portal, which has wide use in Quebec.

synopsis: Rogers Media and Multivan Broadcast Corporation today announced an agreement under which Rogers Broadcasting, a Rogers Media subsidiary, will acquire Vancouver based multicultural television station Channel M.

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: 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.