Oak Hill Capital
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Oak Hill Capital is a private equity firm with more than $4.1 billion of committed capital from leading entrepreneurs, endowments, foundations, corporations, pension funds and global financial institutions. Robert Bass is the lead investor.
Over a period of nearly twenty years, Oak Hill Capital has invested in more than fifty significant private equity transactions, including Ariel, Genpact, The Container Store, Butler Animal Health Supply, EXLService, Progressive Moulded Products, TravelCenters of America, WideOpenWest, Blackboard, American Savings Bank (Washington Mutual), Bell & Howell (Proquest), Oreck Corporation and Wometco Cable Corporation. Oak Hill Capital is one of several Oak Hill partnerships, each of which has an independent management team. These Oak Hill partnerships comprise over $18 billion of investment capital across multiple asset classes, including private equity, special situations, high yield and bank debt, venture capital, real estate and a public equity exchange fund.
[edit] Recent history
The company has garnered widespread media attention due to the its addition of investors Bill Gates and Phil Knight, Nike founder.
[edit] Entertainment
The company is seeking to acquire 9 television stations from The New York Times Company, pending FCC approval. Those stations are as follows:
| DMA Rank | Market | Station ... Channel (DT) | Network |
| 42. | Norfolk, Virginia | WTKR-TV 3 (40) | CBS |
| 44. | Memphis | WREG 3 (28) | CBS |
| 46. | Oklahoma City | KFOR 4 (27) | NBC |
| KAUT 43 (40) | MyNetworkTV | ||
| 53. | Scranton / Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania | WNEP 16 (49) | ABC |
| 73. | Des Moines, Iowa | WHO 13 (19) | NBC |
| 84. | Huntsville/Decatur | WHNT 19 (59) | CBS |
| 96. | Moline/Rock Island, Illinois/Davenport, Iowa | WQAD 8 (38) | ABC |
| 104. | Fayetteville | KFSM 5(18) | CBS |
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