BendBroadband, Bend, Ore. Stations Sold For $261 Million

By Michael Malone
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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Telecommunications outfit Telephone & Data Systems (TDS) has agreed to acquire the broadband and cable operator BendBroadband and subsidiary Zolo Media, which includes KOHD-KBNZ Bend, for $261 million. David Wittwer is president/CEO of TDS.

Zolo picked up KOHD, an ABC affiliate, for $2.35 million last year.

KBNZ is the CBS affiliate in DMA No. 193.

Michael Malone
Michael Malone

Michael Malone, senior content producer at B+C/Multichannel News, covers network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television. He hosts the podcasts Busted Pilot, about what’s new in television, and Series Business, a chat with the creator of a new program, and writes the column “The Watchman.” He joined B+C in 2005. His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Playboy and New York magazine.