Outsourcing Station Management Becomes a Trend

By Andrew Gauthier 

TVNewsCheck

Sweet spot in a sour economy? A handful of broadcast veterans have found it managing stations they dont own.

Faced with businesses needing intensive care to survive, much less fetch a reasonable price on the trading block, some station owners are outsourcing management to the broadcasting equivalent of ER docs.

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The companies winning bids to manage operations other than their own have time-tested executive teams and formidable scale economics. Those in the game so far: LIN Media, Gray Television, Nexstar Broadcasting Group and Titan Broadcast Management. More…

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