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Sunbeam, Warren Buffet in Top 30 US Television Station Owners

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Sunbeam, Warren Buffet in Top 30 US Television Station Owners

The last couple of years have seen a lot of television stations being bought and sold. Belo and Gannett merged, Tribune went on a station buying spree, and our WPLG Local 10 is now in the hands of prolific investor Warren Buffett.

Using data from research firm BIA/Kelsey TVNewsCheck ranked TV station owners by 2013 revenue and while the usual media giants like FOX and CBS are at the top other station groups have moved up a bit.

WSVN parent company Sunbeam Television placed 18th, right behind former WPLG owner Post-Newsweek Stations, with estimated revenues of $207 million from WSVN, WHDH and WLVI during 2013. In the same list last year Sunbeam placed 22nd with $231,700 million in 2012 revenues which no doubt were propped up by heavy political spending.

WPLG, now owned by Berkshire Hatthaway and Warren Buffet, ranked 26th with $71 million in revenues for 2013. Its former parent company Post-Newsweek which now owns five stations in five markets had $261 million in revenues and ranked 17th.

Kelley Mitchell Hospitalized

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Kelley Mitchell Hospitalized

Former TV news anchor and current WLRN radio host Kelley Mitchell had to check herself into the hospital over the weekend after a visit to an urgent care facility . Doctors are still trying to figure out what caused her lung to collapse.

Mitchell told GossipExtra she expects to be back to work at WLRN in a few days and that even though she has a bunch of tubes inside her she’s a little bored. So feel free to tweet her @KelleyMitchel

WXEL, WPBT Considering Merger

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WXEL, WPBT Considering Merger

Merger fever has overtaken several industries as of late, including two of our local PBS affiliates. WXEL and WPBT announced they are exploring the possibility of  merging to create a new entity called South Florida PBS.

Talks are at a very early stage, and considering the two stations already tried to merge in 1997, 2005 and 2009  we wouldn’t say it’s a done deal but if all goes as planned the merger would establish South Florida as the seventh-largest Nielsen television market in the US and give the new PBS entity the capacity to broadcast more channels.

WXEL currently airs four and WPBT broadcasts three channels, the combined South Florida PBS would eliminate duplicate programming the two stations currently air and allow it to expand it’s content and channel selection. Even more so when ATSC 3.0 becomes reality soon, which is rumored to have advanced video compression like HEVC or H.264 and up to 38Mbps bandwidth per 6Mhz TV channel.

Alexa Helms Leaves for Chicago

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Alexa Helms Leaves for Chicago

Readers wanted to know where she went and now we can report that WSVN reporter Alexa Helms is changing stations and heading north to Chicago for what rumor has it is an anchoring job. Helms joined 7News in October 2012 from El Paso duopoly KTSM/KDBC.

As the news business goes, her new job has a South Florida connection. According to Chicago media columnist Rober Feder, Alexa Helms will anchor the 9pm Saturday and Sunday newscasts on WFLD FOX32, which haven’t had a permanent anchor since Amara Walker (Sohn) left for CNN. Walker of course used to report for WTVJ until 2012 when she moved to Chicago.

WPTV Investigative Reporter Dan Krauth Joins WTVJ

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WPTV Investigative Reporter Dan Krauth Joins WTVJ

WPTV’s golden boy and investigative reporter Dan Krauth has found his way down south and joined WTVJ with the same job title. Krauth spent the last three years at the Palm Beach affiliate as an investigative reporter winning several awards for his work, most recently a Murrow award for an investigative piece about 911 operators.

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