You left out the "interesting" part of the deal. The Dallas PBS affiliate sold desirable VHF channel 2 for less than $20 million to Daystar. Daystar then sold less desirable UHF channel 29 for almost twice as much - $37 million.
Here is one report:
TV purchase puts Daystar in more homes
Colleyville programmer buys public station (Ch. 2)
BY GAIL BENNISON
Fort Worth Business Press
Marcus and Joni Lamb, founders of Colleyville-based Community Television Educators of DFW, Inc., the Daystar Television Network, have entered into an agreement to purchase KDTN-TV (Channel 2) from North Texas Public Broadcasting for $20 million.
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In a simultaneous transaction, the Lambs have sold KMPX-TV (Channel 29) to a secular network, Lieberman Broadcasting of Los Angeles, with proceeds of the sale totaling $37 million. Both transactions are subject to FCC approval.
http://www.digitaldfw.com/clients/bizpress/v1/story.asp?i=67&s=1789
I was awaiting a nibble at which time I would elaborated ...
" PBS affiliate sold desirable VHF channel 2"
Yeah ... a 'low band' VHF TV channel that is afected by a) power line noise b) some computer operated toys/games and PC peripherals and c) recurring to just occasional 'skip' (depending on the sun spot cycle) from a thousand miles away.
If you've ever received 'broadcast TV' using an outside antenna you'll know what I mean.
I can get good, although sometimes ghosty images with just rabbit ears alone on the local Dallas UHF and VHF Hi-band channels; not so on the Low-VHF channels (2, 4 and 5 locally).
Frankly, in today's noisy RF environment - the low-band channels a lot of time look like crap.
VHF Hi-band CH 8 - Clean
VHF Lo-band CH 2 - Dirty 1) Impulse noise (due to noisy power line a couple blocks away) and 2) an irriating 'herrring bone' pattern as well (from a CPU or an LO in a cordless phone - I forget which now)
