Orlando PBS Station Sold

Community Educators of Orlando plans to buy PBS station WMFE Orlando for about $3 million. WMFE parent Community Communications announced late last week it was selling the station because it is no longer financially viable. Community Communications also owns a WMFE radio station.

Orlando is in DMA No. 19.

Patrick Communications brokered the sale.

The Orlando Sentinel reports that the Christian broadcaster Daystar Television Network backs the buyer.

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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.