View Post ABC Affiliates | TV Biz Sinclair Announces Funding for Allbritton Purchase By Kevin Eck on Jul. 24, 2014 - 3:31 PM Sinclair Broadcast Group announced it has lined up the funding to buy Allbritton Communications. In a press release, the station group announced Sinclair Television Group, a subsidiary, has closed its private offering of $550 mill ...
View Post FCC | TV Biz American Cable Association Petitions FCC Over Sinclair’s Latest Purchase By Kevin Eck on Nov. 5, 2013 - 4:42 PM The American Cable Association has filed a petition asking the FCC to either restrict or deny Sinclair Broadcast Group’s purchase of New Age Media’s television stations. The ACA is taking a different stance than other ...
View Post FCC | TV Biz Sinclair’s Buy of Allbritton’s Stations Gets Second Look from DOJ By Kevin Eck on Oct. 9, 2013 - 3:38 PM Both Sinclair Broadcasting and Allbritton Communications have been asked for more information in Sinclair’s proposed buy of Allbritton’s Harrisburg, PA, and Charleston, SC, stations. In a release, Sinclair said the two ...
View Post TV Biz Sinclair to Buy Allbritton Stations for $985 Million By Kevin Eck on Jul. 29, 2013 - 11:50 AM Sinclair Broadcasting has announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to buy the stock of Perpetual Corporation and equity interest of Charleston Television, LLC, both owned by Allbritton for an aggregate purchase of $985 ...
ABC Affiliates | Social Media | Top 10 No Longer TBD, WJLA Launches New Website By Andrew Gauthier on Apr. 26, 2011 - 10:37 AM WJLA‘s stint with TBD.com is now but a distant memory, or at least just a small link at the top of the ABC-affiliate’s new website. Launching a brand-new website this week, WJLA has asserted its independence from TBD.c ...
ABC Affiliates | Top 10 Brushing TBD.com Aside, D.C.’s WJLA Prepares to Launch New Website By Andrew Gauthier on Apr. 19, 2011 - 1:38 PM The name has turned out to be more accurate than perhaps originally intended as TBD.com, Allbritton’s local news site launched in partnership with D.C. ABC-affiliate WJLA last August, is about to take on a new identity follo ...
ABC Affiliates | Top 10 Taking Over TBD, WJLA’s Bill Lord Plans ‘Mid-Course Correction’ By Andrew Gauthier on Feb. 16, 2011 - 3:08 PM As Bill Lord, WJLA’s general manager and news director, takes control of TBD, the Allbritton-owned web entity will undergo a “mid-course correction.” Lord plans on scrapping TBD’s umbrella status over WJLA ...
ABC Affiliates | Top 10 Allbritton Hands Control of TBD.com to WJLA By Andrew Gauthier on Feb. 9, 2011 - 1:56 PM Allbritton Communications is handing control of local news site TBD.com to ABC-affiliate WJLA. TBD.com was launched last August as part of Allbritton’s strategy to cohere its D.C. news outlets. WJLA has been a content partne ...
TV Biz Retrans Deal with Comcast Hushes Allbritton’s Criticism of NBCU Merger By Andrew Gauthier on Jan. 21, 2011 - 2:56 PM While lobbying the FCC to approve its proposed merger with NBC Universal, Comcast was also trying to make nice with another skeptic. In the weeks leading up to the government’s approval, Comcast was in talks with Allbritto ...