WGBH, Ed Ansin reap huge windfall in sale of broadcast spectrum
WGBH and Channel 7 owner Ed Ansin are among eight Boston-area broadcasters receiving multimillion-dollar windfalls from a government-brokered auction of nearly 1,000 broadcast frequencies sought by wireless carriers, the Federal Communications Commission disclosed Thursday.
WGBH, the public media organization, will receive $218.7 million in exchange for moving the over-the-air signals of its WGBH and WGBY stations from frequencies on the UHF band to the VHF band. The two stations broadcast from Boston and Springfield respectively.
Meanwhile, Ansin sold the broadcast signal for WLVI-TV (Channel 56) for $162 million. The veteran broadcaster has said he will continue to operate WLVI, which airs the CW network, in a channel-share arrangement with another station he owns, WHDH-TV (Channel 7).
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