Brian Damage
03-15-2010, 10:19 PM
A TV station is for sale and the owner has made it available on Ebay, reports The New York Times.
According to the article, the station owner and manager, Bud Kelley, says he wants to sell it because he wants to retire and the popular call-in weekly bingo show airs at 7 p.m., too late for him.
The station is UHF outlet WMKG-LP, Channel 38 in Muskegon, Mich. The station, which hasn’t yet upgraded to digital, airs live talk shows and outdoor sports programming.
Kelley has it listed on eBay for $700,000 but told The Times that he’d go as low as $500,000 cash for the venture, which he says is profitable. “It’s a real station, not a toy,” he told the paper.
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/small-michigan-television-station-is-priced-to-sell-on-ebay/
According to the article, the station owner and manager, Bud Kelley, says he wants to sell it because he wants to retire and the popular call-in weekly bingo show airs at 7 p.m., too late for him.
The station is UHF outlet WMKG-LP, Channel 38 in Muskegon, Mich. The station, which hasn’t yet upgraded to digital, airs live talk shows and outdoor sports programming.
Kelley has it listed on eBay for $700,000 but told The Times that he’d go as low as $500,000 cash for the venture, which he says is profitable. “It’s a real station, not a toy,” he told the paper.
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/small-michigan-television-station-is-priced-to-sell-on-ebay/