Sinclair will sell WHTM-TV in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to...
Sinclair will sell WHTM-TV in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to Media General, said the seller in a news release Monday (http://bit.ly/1q1lXgX). Sinclair said it’s also selling its interest in WTAT-TV in Charleston, South Carolina, to Cunningham Communications, which already owns the station’s…
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license. Sinclair had provided services to WTAT through a sharing agreement. The deals, which combine for a sale price of $97.4 million, are related to Sinclair’s $985 million deal to buy Allbritton Communications’ TV stations. Sinclair said it expects to complete the buy of the Allbritton stations in Q3, “pending customary approvals and a waiver from the FCC.” Sinclair said last month it would shutter three other stations to bring the Allbritton deal into compliance with new FCC sharing arrangement policies (CD May 30 p4). The waiver would be a temporary one, allowing Sinclair to briefly own WHTM and an existing Harrisburg station at the same time, since the Allbritton transaction is likely to be approved before the Media General deal, Sinclair told us.