RE: NBC to buy Merrimack, NH station.

["Paul Hopfgarten" <paul@03038.com>]

Ah! Merrimack...that hotbed of hispanic broadcasting! (I know, 60 has a
decent signal in Lawrence...)

Paul Hopfgarten
East Derry NH 03041


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of Joseph
> Pappalardo
> Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 2:00 PM
> To: B-R-I
> Subject: NBC to buy Merrimack, NH station.
>
>
> From Bloomberg...
>
> General Electric Co.'s NBC television unit agreed to buy a TV station in
> Merrimack, NH., from Paxson Communications Corp. for $26 million to
> broadcast NBC's Telemundo Spanish-language network.  WPXB-TV
> Channel 60, now
> broadcasts Valuevision Media Inc.'s Shop NBC network, Paxson said in a
> statement.  NBC exercised a right of first refusal to buy the station it
> had received as part of a $415 million investment in Paxson three
> years ago,
> an NBC spokeswoman said.
>