TVs

-- Broadcasting & Cable, 10/23/2000

KZJL(TV) Houston

Price: $57 million (seller retains half of station's ch. 59-69 rights)

Buyer: Liberman Broadcasting Inc., Los Angeles (Jose Liberman, president); owns two other TVs, three FMs and two AMs

Seller: Shop at Home Inc., Nashville (Kent E. Lillie, president); owns four TVs; is selling WSAH-TV Bridgeport, Conn./New York (Changing Hands, Oct. 2). Note: SAH bought kzjl in 1996 for $8 million

Facilities: Ch. 61, 2,740 kW visual, 274 kW aural, ant. 1,810 ft.

Affiliation: Shop at Home

Broker: Media Venture Partners (seller)

WBSG-TV Brunswick, Ga./Jacksonville, Fla.

Price: $3.07 million (certain station equipment excluded)

Buyer: Paxson Communications Corp., West Palm Beach, Fla. (Lowell W. "Bud" Paxson, chairman/owner; Jon Jay Hoker, president, TV group); owns/is buying 67 other TVs

Seller: WBSG-TV LP c/o Coastal Com Inc., St. Simons Island, Ga. (L.G. Wright, principal). Note: Right to buy station was sold to Paxson by Allbritton Communica-tions Co., which owns eight TVs, including WJXX(TV) Orange Park/ Jacksonville, Fla.

Facilities: Ch. 21, 5,000 kW visual, ant. 1,371 ft.

Affiliation : ABC