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Entravision buys Palm Spring stations KMIR and KPSE for $21 million

July 31, 2017 by Veronica Villafañe

EntravisionEntravision has entered into an agreement with OTA Broadcasting to acquire two of its stations – NBC affiliate KMIR-TV and NetworkTV affiliate KPSE-LD in Palm Springs for $21 million.

Publicly-traded Entravision will buy the stations with proceeds from the FCC broadcast incentive auction and treat it as a like-kind exchange, following IRS rules.

The transaction, which has to be approved by the FCC, is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2017.

Entravision sold four TV stations at the auction: WVUN in Hartford, KSMS in Monterey, and WJAL and WMDO-CD in Washington, D.C. for a total of $263,592,981.

The company currently owns and operates Univision, UniMás and Azteca América affiliated television stations in the Palm Springs market, ranked #49 in the Hispanic DMA.

Filed Under: TV & Radio Tagged With: Entravision, KMIR

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Veronica Villafañe, Editor & Publisher

Emmy award-winning journalist and former president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ). Currently a reporter for Voice of America, she has worked as an on-air reporter, anchor, writer and producer for Spanish and English-language TV, print and online media, including Univision, Telemundo, Fox 11 News in L.A. and the San Jose Mercury News.

Hispanic media and entertainment contributor to Forbes.

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