Dove Broadcasting Acquires Nashville Independent Station

By Michael Malone
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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Dove Broadcasting is paying $4 million for WJFB, an independent station in Nashville. The seller is Bryant Broadcasting.

Licensed to Lebanon, Tennessee, the station airs on channel 44, showing Christian programming. WJFB’s call letters come from founder Joe F. Bryant.

Dove Broadcasting is a Christian broadcaster based in South Carolina, which also owns WGGS in Greenville, South Carolina.

Patrick Communications represented the seller in the transaction.

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.