By Ken Stammen, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News By Ken Stammen, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
The U.S. Justice Department is close to making a decision on a consolidation request from a Fox television station and an ABC station in Columbus, OH. The department has already made several decisions on radio consolidation and is now dealing with consoliThe U.S. Justice Department is close to making a...
Clear Channel appears to be beating back the host of single-station and small-group owners who have asked the FCC to stop what they say are strong-arm and illegal tactics by the radio giant, which has muscled its way to domination in many markets a ...
WASHINGTON - Ohio cable operators believe that Ameritech Corp. is breaking the rules again. The Ohio Cable Telecommunications Association charged that the Baby Bell is flouting Federal Communications Commission rules, and it wants the agency to i WASHINGTON - Ohio cable operators...
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Integrated Mobile, the leader in managed mobility solutions for enterprises, announced today that it was a sponsor of the 13th Annual CTIA Wireless Foundation Achievement Awards gala held on Monday in Washington, D.C. At this event, the wireless charity honored eight Wireless Samaritans from across America who...
The plans of Sinclair Broadcasting to show an anti-John Kerry documentary days before the November 2 election "demand restoring the personal attack rule and the Fairness Doctrine," urged Gloria Tristani, a former Federal Communications Commission member who now directs the communications office of the United Church of Christ. ...
FISHER COMMUNICATIONS has reached an agreement in principle to sell WFXG-TV Augusta and WXTX-TV Columbus, both Georgia, to SOUTHEASTERN MEDIA HOLDINGS for $40 million in cash, subject to FCC approval. KALIL & CO. was the broker. Fisher, which will still own 10 TV and 28 radio...
Business Editors SEATTLE--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 29, 2003 Fisher Communications (Nasdaq:FSCI) today announced the signing of an asset purchase agreement for the sale of its two Georgia television stations, WFXG-TV, Augusta and WXTX-TV, Columbus. The buyer is Southeastern Media Holdings, Inc. The purchase price, payable in...
Verizon Wireless announced it signed an agreement with Northcoast Communications LLC, to purchase 50 PCS licenses and related network assets, for approximately $750 million in cash. The licenses cover large portions of the East Coast and Midwest, including such major markets as New York, Boston, Minneapolis,...
Business Editors SEATTLE--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 14, 2002 Fisher Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq:FSCI) today announced that it has entered into a non-binding letter of intent for the sale of WFXG-TV, Augusta and WXTX-TV in Columbus, Georgia. The transaction is subject to negotiation of a purchase and sale...
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The National EmergencyNumber Association NENA announced today that its executive board isaware that a proposal made by NEXTEL and the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials International APCO has been offeredto public safety. NENA wishes to inform its membership that theAssociation has just...
High-Tech: Qualcomm Loan Helps to Get Licenses in San Antonio and Houston A San Diego-based wireless telecom carrier left, the recent federal spectrum auction committed to spend $350 million on wireless operating licenses in 22 markets nationwide. Leap Wireless International Inc. will acquire the licenses with...
Is Token Independent In Four-ISP Test Just days after being aggressively probed by the FCC on when it would open its cable systems to competing Internet service providers, Time Warner [TWX] yesterday agreed to let Juno Online Services [JWEB] offer access over Time Warner's cable systems....
April 26, 2000 Thank you very much. Well, I leaned over to Mayor Jones, and I said, "Is it really true that no previous President has ever been to Whiteville or Columbus County?" And she said, "It's true." And I said, "They don't know what they were missing."...
The FCC has approved Leap Wireless International's [LWIN] pending acquisitions of 11 licenses in Tennessee and one in Dayton, Ohio. The licenses will be used by Leap's U.S. subsidiary, Cricket Communications. Leap is acquiring the Tennessee licenses from Chase Telecommunications Holdings, which already is offering service under the...
ESPN Pres. George Bodenheimer will add responsibility for all domestic and international operations, assuming duties of Steven Bornstein, who moved to ABC pres... Anne Nelson, 54-year employee of CBS, promoted to vp-business affairs, CBS Entertainment... Barry Umansky, NAB deputy gen. counsel and former FCC, is leaving Assn. after 20 years...
MILWAUKEE--BUSINESS WIRE--Dec. 21, 1998--Cumulus Media Inc. (NASDAQ:CMLS) today announced that it has added to its cluster of radio stations in Columbus, Georgia with the purchase of two additional stations. The Company is purchasing WDAK-AM and WSTH-FM from Solar Communications Co., Inc. for $4.5 million. Cumulus currently owns WVRK-FM, WGSY-FM, WAGH-FM,...
MILWAUKEE--BUSINESS WIRE--Dec. 21, 1998--Cumulus Media Inc. (NASDAQ:CMLS) today announced that it has added to its cluster of radio stations in Columbus, Georgia with the purchase of two additional stations. The Company is purchasing WDAK-FM and WSTH-AM from Solar Communications Co., Inc. for $4.5 million. Cumulus currently owns WVRK-FM, WGSY-FM, WAGH-FM,...
MILWAUKEE--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 3, 1998-- Agrees To Acquire 14 Stations in Three Mississippi Markets for $12.3 Million Cumulus Media Inc. (NASDAQ:CMLS), the nation's fourth largest radio broadcaster, today announced it would enter three new radio markets in Mississippi, through four agreements to acquire 14 radio stations in the Tupelo, Laurel-Hattiesburg...
Jacor Communications has agreed to Justice Dept. DoJ condition that it dispose of 8 radio stations to solve antitrust problems in 3 markets in its $620-million purchase of 17 stations from Nationwide Communications (TVD Nov 3 p4). Without swapping or selling 5 stations in Columbus, O., 2 in San Diego...
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