NBCU looks to sell more stations

By Don Day 

NBC Universal continues to refocus its Local Media division — announcing its intent to unload WTVJ/Miami and WVIT/Hartford, CT. NBCU says it will primarily focus on the top ten markets – though it will hold on to KNSD/San Diego out in market 27. Miami is market 16 and Hartford is 28. Even though NBCU will unload WTVJ, it plans to hang on to its Telemundo station in the market. “We’re in the process of re-engineering the way we think, shifting our focus from a traditional stations business to becoming full-service local-media-production centers,” NBC Local Media president John Wallace said in an internal memo obtained by Broadcasting & Cable.

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