Nexstar Sells Evansville Station for $18.6 Million

By Kevin Eck 

nexstar_304Nexstar has announced it is selling Evansville CBS affiliate WEVV for $18.6 million to minority led broadcaster Bayou City Broadcasting Evansville, Inc.

“The proposed transaction announced today highlights our focus on completing pending transactions and represents the second time in the last two months that Nexstar has structured an agreement that furthers the FCC’s goal of increasing minority television ownership diversity,” Nexstar chairman, president and CEO Perry Sook said in a statement.

WEVV is owned by Communications Corp. of America. Nexstar and Mission Broadcasting announced they were buying CCA last April for $270 million.

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According to the Nexstar press release, “The sale of WEVV to BCB brings the overall CCA transaction into compliance with Department of Justice requirements for approval and will release the pending transaction from hold pending divestiture.”

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