OTA Broadcasting
| Private company | |
| Industry | Broadcast and Digital |
| Founded | 2011 |
| Headquarters | Fairfax, Virginia |
Key people | Michael Dell, founder |
| Products | Television |
| Parent | MSD Capital |
| Website |
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OTA Broadcasting, LLC is a broadcasting company founded in 2011 by Michael Dell. The company is based in Fairfax, Virginia.
History
OTA Broadcasting was founded in 2011 by Michael Dell's MSD Capital. It has been rumored that Dell formed OTA Broadcasting to buy stations that could be sold in the FCC spectrum auction.[1]
The company's first acquisition was announced in June 2011 when it was announced that it was acquiring KTLN-TV in San Rafael, California.[2] The purchase closed that October.
OTA reached an agreement to purchase WTBL-CD in Lenoir, NC, located in the Charlotte DMA, for $500,000.[3]
On October 4, 2013, Journal Broadcast Group announced that it had entered an agreement to sell KMIR-TV and KPSE-LD in Palm Springs, California to OTA.[4] The acquisition closed in January 2014. KMIR became OTA's first station affiliated with one of the "Big Three" networks.
Post-spectrum auction
On July 21, 2017, OTA Broadcasting announced its sale of KMIR-TV and KPSE-LD to Entravision Communications for $21 million.[5]
On August 7, 2017, it was announced that Nexstar Media Group would acquire the non-spectrum operating assets of WLWC from OTA.[6]
Stations
| City of license / Market | Station | Channel TV (RF) |
Owned since | Network affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palm Springs | KMIR-TV | 36 (46) | 2014 | NBC |
| KPSE-LD | 29 (50) | 2014 | MyNetworkTV | |
| San Rafael – San Francisco – San Jose | KTLN-TV | 68 (47) | 2011 | Total Living Network |
| KAXT-CD | 1 (42) | 2016 | Galavisión | |
| New Bedford – Providence | WLWC | 28 (22) | 2013 | The CW |
| Nashua – Boston | WYCN-CD 1 | 13 (36) | 2013 | H&I |
| New York City | WEBR-CD | 49 (17) | 2012 | Universal Affiliates Network |
| Lenoir – Charlotte | WTBL-CD | 49 (49) | 2015 | FamilyNet |
| Pittsburgh | WEPA-CD | 59 (16) | 2013 | GEB |
| Houston | KUGB-CD | 28 (28) | 2013 | Cozi TV |
| Bellingham – Seattle | KVOS-TV | 12 (35) | 2012 | MeTV |
| KFFV | 44 (44) | 2011 | EVINE Live | |
- 1 This station is operated by New Hampshire 1 Network, Inc.
References
- ↑ Resigner, Don (January 13, 2016). "Michael Dell Could Make Billions off TV Stations You Don't Watch". Fortune. Retrieved April 1, 2017.
- ↑ O'Connor, Clare (July 7, 2011). "Why Is Michael Dell Buying Up Bankrupt TV Stations?". Forbes. Retrieved April 1, 2017.
- ↑ Malone, Michael (May 13, 2015). "OTA Broadcasting Picks Up North Carolina Station for Half Million". Broadcasting & Cable. Retrieved April 1, 2017.
- ↑ "KMIR6 and KPSE My13 Being Sold to New Owner". Palm Springs, CA: KMIR-TV. October 4, 2013. Retrieved April 1, 2017.
- ↑ McAdams, Deborah D. (July 21, 2017). "OTA Sells KMIR, KPSE in Palm Springs for $21 Million". TVTechnology. Retrieved August 5, 2017.
- ↑ "Nexstar Media Group acquiring non-license assets of Providence CW affiliate". WPRI-TV. Retrieved August 7, 2017.