Nexstar is seeking FCC OK to buy KFVE (MyNetworkTV) Honolulu in an approximately $6.5 million deal, it told the agency in documents posted Thursday. Nexstar owns KHON-TV (Fox) Honolulu and two satellite stations in that market. It also seeks to buy, all from HITV License and in that market, KFVE satellite stations KGMV Wailuku and KGMD-TV Hilo.

The owners WLNN-CD, Boone, North Carolina, will pay $2 million and relinquish the license under a consent decree that ends an investigation by the FCC Media and Wireless bureaus of licensee Carolina Rays. It's about it possibly submitting wrong information in its incentive auction application and transferring control of the Class A station without FCC OK, said Friday's order.

Comments on Ion’s request to amend the DTV table of allotments to change WUPX-TV Morehead, Kentucky’s community of license to Richmond, Kentucky, are due Nov. 26, says a notice for Friday's Federal Register. Replies are due ten days later, the notice says.

Comments on procedures for auction 100 for this fiscal year of 13 mutually exclusive FM translator construction permits still are due Nov. 15 (see 1810190050), replies Nov. 28, says a notice for Friday’s Federal Register.

If the FCC has to activate broadcasters' online public files not yet activated despite March's deadline to do so, there could be consequences during license renewals in 2019, blogged Wilkinson Barker broadcast attorney David Oxenford Tuesday. The Media Bureau said it will turn on unused public files Nov.15 (see 1811050028). “With license renewals for radio starting in June 2019, a review of the online public file will likely be part of the FCC’s review of the renewal application,” Oxenford said. Incomplete or unactivated files “will likely lead to FCC fines,” he said. The agency can find noncompliant broadcasters “from the comfort of their own computer, any time of any day,” Oxenford said.

The FCC Media Bureau will activate the online public inspection file accounts of all radio broadcasters who haven’t yet activated their own accounts on Nov. 15, said a public notice Monday. All radio broadcasters were required to have their public inspection files in the FCC database by March 1. “The Media Bureau also reminds licensees of the obligation to immediately place all required documents in the online public file,” the PN said.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and his wife Lynne completed their $190 million cash buy from Meredith of Time, Meredith announced Thursday. "Meredith will provide short-term business continuity services and has entered into a multi-year agreement with the Benioffs to provide services such as consumer marketing, subscription fulfillment, paper purchasing and printing." The broadcaster still plans (see 1809170034) to use the money to pay down debt.

CBS is standing by its forecast of signing 8 million paid subscribers combined for its CBS All Access and Showtime over-the-top direct-to-consumer services in 2019, “a full year ahead of our original schedule,” said President-Acting CEO Joe Ianniello on a Thursday Q3 earnings call. The forecast doesn’t include direct-to-consumer subs CBS is just beginning to sign on internationally, including for its Australian service, 10 All Access, launching this quarter, he said. “We will continue to expand into new territories in 2019, and we’re confident that digital distribution on a global scale will be very lucrative.” The “world of OTT has opened up so many options with what we can do with data analytics and really unlock and target our marketing,” said Chief Financial Officer Christina Spade. “As we get further educated and learn more about our consumer” through the CBS All Access and Showtime OTT offerings, “the scale of the business is huge,” she said. CBSN, the network’s 24/7 ad-supported news service, is averaging more than a million daily streams, said Ianniello. The average age of the CBSN viewer is 38, “decades younger than the average broadcast and cable news viewer,” he said. Later in Q4, "local versions" of CBSN will debut, “featuring content from our owned and operated stations across the country,” starting with New York, with Los Angeles and other markets to be added in early 2019, he said.

The FCC Enforcement Bureau ordered a $25,000 penalty against Paterson, New Jersey, pirate radio operator Winston Tulloch, said a forfeiture order Wednesday. An unauthorized radio station was found operating out of properties connected with Tulloch several times going back to 2015, said a notice of apparent liability in April (see 1804250059). The station also repeatedly gave Tulloch’s personal phone number on air as a contact for potential advertisers, the NAL said. “Mr. Tulloch has not filed a response to the NAL,” the order said. Tulloch couldn't be reached for comment.

Reducing interference protections for Class A AM stations (see 1810090058) “would result in a significant loss of established listenership,” Entercom told FCC Media Bureau Audio Division Chief Albert Shuldiner last week, said a filing in docket 13-249 posted Monday. Many Class A AMs are primary entry-point stations that trigger emergency alerts, the station owner said. “Limiting interference protection for these stations could have a significant public safety impact.”