Sinclair Acquires WGXA Macon for $33 Million

By Michael Malone
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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Sinclair Broadcast Group has agreed to acquire WGXA Macon (Ga.) for $33 million. The seller is Frontier Radio Management, with Jason Wolff as president.

WGXA is the Fox affiliate in DMA No. 118, with ABC airing on its dot-two channel.

It is the No. 2 revenue station in Macon, according to BIA/Kelsey. 

Media Venture Partners brokered 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.