In about 20% of the deals, station formats are overhauled within two to three months.
As part of the deal, the station's current tenants will be forced to move out.
Unlike a commercial licence, they cannot sell it on for profit and as part of the deal the station must continually prove its worth to the community it serves.
Connecticut Public Television has purchased the local television rights to broadcast the games of the University of Connecticut women's basketball team for the next five years for more than $4 million, a deal the station calls "the richest women's collegiate sports contract in the country".
However, the key to any deal public stations would make with Congress is establishment of a trust fund giving the stations a more stable funding source.
Two classic game shows, "Wheel of Fortune" and "Jeopardy!," will stay on television through 2014 in a renewal deal with stations owned by ABC, TheWrap.com reported.
They still refuse to get out of the office, to examine firsthand the condition of the network and try to come up with hands on approaches for dealing with station inhomogeneity, but instead focus of trying to spot patterns in data and massage it.
He sold the books, largely through individual deals with station newspaper kiosks, and advertised on Kiev buses and via a sandwich board that he wore "on the equivalent of Kiev's Carnaby Street, where I sat in between Russian-doll sellers".
Unsecured creditors with $2 billion of debt outstanding would probably lose most of their money in either case, but might eke out a little with Boyd thanks to the higher total valuation the deal would place on Station.
Tells about the wheeling and dealing with stations to broadcast the games.
