The FCC approved a waiver allowing the sale...
The FCC approved a waiver allowing the sale of WNYA-TV Pittsfield, Mass., from Venture Technologies Group to WNYT-TV, licensee of a station with those call letters in the same Nielsen designated market area as WNYA. Both NBC affiliate WNYT Albany,…
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N.Y., and WNYA are in the Albany-Schenectady-Troy DMA, said a Thursday letter to lawyers for the buyer and seller from Media Bureau Video Division Chief Barbara Kreisman. Because the DMA has fewer than eight independent stations and even though WNYA isn’t a top-four station in the market, the buyer needed the waiver, she wrote (http://bit.ly/18z9qbr). She said the buyer got a failing-station waiver for WNYA because it met all four tests for such status, including low audience share and negative cash flow in the three years through 2012.