WZMY Sells for $9.25M

Carlisle One Media has closed on its deal with Shooting Star Broadcasting for WZMY Derry (NH).

The station sold for $9.25 million, according to FCC filings.

WZMY is the MyNetworkTV affiliate for Boston. It airs Universal Sports on its digital tier.

The station will be rechristened WBIN. When the deal was announced in March, Carlisle One Media, run by Bill Binnie, said it would announce new programming and local content.

Dick Foreman of Richard A. Foreman Associates, Inc., initiated the transaction and served as the exclusive broker.

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.