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CBS Corporation announced it has wrapped a deal renewing its affiliation deals with 12 LIN Media stations in ten markets. The agreement includes renewals for KRQE in Albuquerque, N.M.; KBIM-TV in Roswell, N.M.; KREZ-TV in Durango, Colo.; WIAT in Birmingham, Ala.; WIVB-TV in Buffalo, N.Y.; WANE in Fort Wayne, Ind.…

RICHMOND, Va.–Media General, Inc. (NYSE:MEG) and LIN Media LLC (NYSE:LIN) today announced a definitive merger agreement that will create the second largest pure-play television broadcasting company in the U.S. Under the terms of the agreement, and based on Media General's trailing 20-day volume weighted average price…

More than 1.5M Time Warner Cable subscribers in 14 markets can relax. The cable company — which also represents Bright House Network — “has reached an agreement with LIN Media for continued carriage of their broadcast stations,” it said today without details about terms. The companies’ carriage agreement was due to exp…

PROVIDENCE, R.I.– LIN TV Corp. ("LIN Media"; NYSE: TVL), a local multimedia company, announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary LIN Television Corporation ("LIN Television" or "the Company") entered into a definitive agreement to purchase certain broadcast and other related assets for 13 network affiliates (including…

LIN Media, which owns 17 stations — mostly CBS, Fox and CW affiliates — went dark on the satellite provider last weekend after a retrans-fee spat in which Dish said LIN was “simply being greedy.” PROVIDENCE, R.I.(March 13, 2011) — LIN Media (NYSE: TVL), a local multimedia company, today announced that it has entered…

A relatively small standoff over retransmission consent will probably get big attention because of its timing. LIN Media’s 17 stations, mostly CBS, Fox and CW affiliates, went dark on Dish Network systems today, just two days after the FCC said it will review the current retransmission-consent rules so that it can…