Channel 7 Owner to Buy WLVI-TV 56
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By Jenn Abelson, The Boston Globe  Sep. 15--Miami media mogul Ed Ansin, who owns WHDH-TV (Channel 7) in  Boston, said yesterday that he plans to buy WLVI-TV (Channel 56) for $113.7  million and make over its 10 p.m. newscast to appeal to a younger demographic.
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By Peter Barnes, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Dec. 12--Efforts by a local nonprofit group and the City of Spokane to help keep a community-access cable channel on the air took a step forward Monday as the City Council approved $50,000 to operate Channel 14.
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Univision Communications Inc., the  largest U.S. Spanish-language broadcaster, has agreed to sell  the company to a group of private equity firms and media mogul  Haim Saban for &#36;12.3 billion, a person familiar with the  situation said on Tuesday.
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Station Casinos Inc.  said on Monday it received a management-led buyout offer from a group including its Chairman and Chief Executive Frank Fertitta for $82 per share, or $4.7 billion.
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By Jenn Abelson, The Boston Globe  Sep. 6--Miami media mogul Ed Ansin, who owns WHDH-TV (Channel 7) in  Boston, is in negotiations to buy WLVI-TV (Channel 56), according to an  executive involved in the deal.
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Adelphia Communications Corp., the nation's fifth-largest cable television operator, plans to sell its assets in seven geographic clusters as it emerges from bankruptcy.
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Clear Channel Communications said it had sued a unit of Providence Equity Partners to force a completion of a $1.2 billion purchase of 56 television stations.
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By TIM CUPRISIN  Channel 12 general manager Frank Biancuzzo is moving up in Hearst- Argyle Television, becoming a senior vice president/group head in the chain of 29 TV stations that owns Milwaukee's ABC affiliate.
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. on Monday  said it would to buy out the shareholders of its unit Fox  Entertainment Group Inc. in an exchange offer valued at roughly  $6 billion.
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By David Magliano, The Walton Sun, Santa Rosa Beach, Fla.  Dec. 16--You know what size television you want, and you know how much  you want to spend, but do you know your LCD from your DLP?   You're not alone.
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Mexican broadcaster Televisa will  be allowed to buy a stake in cable company TVI only if it  agrees to offer its popular free channels to competitors,  Mexico's anti-trust agency said on Sunday.
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp (NWSa.N)  will sell eight U.S. television stations to private equity firm  Oak Hill Partners for about $1.1 billion.
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Another of Greater Baltimore&#39;s marquee companies will soon have out-of-state ownership, as Chicago-based General Growth Properties Inc. announced Friday morning it will buy the Rouse Co. for $7.2 billion.
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CBS said the $280 million deal will allow the service to continue to operate as an independent unit.
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By Kurt Blumenau, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Sep. 15--Tribune Co. said Thursday it will sell a Boston TV station,  WLVI-Channel 56, in the latest step of a campaign to dispose of non-core  assets.   Sunbeam Television Corp. of Miami will buy the station for $113.7  million.
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By Christina Hoag, The Miami Herald  Sep. 15--Sunbeam enters television duopoly in Boston   The parent company of WSVN-TV Fox 7 snapped up a second TV station in Boston on Thursday in a $113.7 million cash deal.   Miami-based Sunbeam Television Corp.
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NEW YORK  - Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Ltd. will sell its stake in Sky Latin America to DirecTVGroup , another company which it controls, for $579million in order to consolidate operations of the two satellitebroadcasters, the companies said on Monday.