New Vision Deals KBNZ Bend

By Michael Malone
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

Central Oregon Cable Advertising (COCA) has acquired
KBNZ Bend from New Vision Television. New Vision owns CBS affiliate KOIN
Portland and sends its program feed to KBNZ.

The acquisition was previously reported on
OregonMediaCentral.com (OMC). COCA is owned by Bend
Cable, reports OMC, and is a sister company to BendBroadband, Central
Oregon's main cable and high-speed internet provider.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed. New Vision did not
return a call at presstime.

Bend,
which is DMA #189, is dominated by News Press & Gazette, which owns the
NBC, Fox and CW affiliate. Chambers Communications owns ABC affiliate KOHD.

The NBC, Fox and ABC affiliates made up 99% of the 2008
revenue in Bend,
according to BIA/Kelsey.

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.