NBC to sell KWHY, not KVEA

By Paige Albiniak
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

NBC plans to sell KWHY-TV Los Angeles, not KVEA(TV) Corona, Calif., as the
Federal Communications Commission reported Wednesday.

The FCC made the correction in an erratum issued late Wednesday.

As a result of its $2 billion acquisition of Telemundo Communications Group Inc., NBC has a triopoly in
Los Angeles.

The FCC gave NBC one year to divest the third station.

NBC plans to operate KWHY-TV independently from its duopoly of KNBC-TV and
KVEA (TV) in the meantime.

Paige Albiniak
Paige Albiniak

Contributing editor Paige Albiniak has been covering the business of television for nearly 25 years. She is a longtime contributor to Next TV, Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News. She concurrently serves as editorial director for entertainment marketing association Promax. She has written for such publications as TVNewsCheck, The New York Post, Variety, CBS Watch and more. Albiniak was B+C’s Los Angeles bureau chief from September 2002 to 2004, and an associate editor covering Congress and lobbying for the magazine in Washington, D.C., from January 1997-September 2002.