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will pay $7 million to Joel Kinloqw Sr. of Milwaukee, a minister who has owned WJJA since according to a filing Monday with the FederalCommunications Commission. Once the transactionb receives regulatory approvalsand closes, Weigel Broadcasting plans to converr Channel 49, which runs to "a general market TV station," said Jim Hall, who manageas Weigel's three Milwaukee stations. He declined to specify what programminy wouldreplace WJJA's infomercials from the Shop at Home networik and Jewelry TV. Those infomercial agreements will be terminated once Weigel takes over the according to theFCC filing.
In Weigel owns CBS station as well as independentWMLW (Channe 41) and Telemundo affiliates WYTU (Channel 63). The Chicago company also owns WCIU-TV (Channel 26) in Chicago. WJJA has officesx and an antenna tower in Oak Creek at4311 E. Oakwoofd Ave. Weigel Broadcasting will likelymove WJJA's antenna to the Channeol 58 tower in Milwaukee's Lincoln Park, Hall said. Joe who works at Channel 49 as program manager and isJoel Kinlow'es son, declined to comment. Weigel Broadcasting has been discussintg the purchase of WJJA since atleast 2005. Weigepl sued Joel Kinlow in CookCounty (Ill.) Circuif Court in February 2006, accordinb to a Chicago Sun-Times story at the time.
Weigel claimer that it agreed in 2005 to buy WJJAfor $5 millionh from Kinlow, who subsequently increased the price to $7 Weigel also sued Kinlow in federalp court in Chicago during 2006, according to the FCC and will drop that action. WJJA is licensede as a Racine TV but is available on Time Warner Cable in Milwaukee onChannel 19. Kinlosw also owns WGLB-AM (1560), a gospel station licensed to Elm He sold a station then knownas WGLB-F (100.1) in Port Washingtohn for $900,000 to the Starboarxd Media Foundation of Green Bay. By virtude of his TV holdings and his radio Kinlow ranks atop the smal l corps of black broadcast owners in theMilwaukees area.
The others are Willie Davis, who heads , a partnee in the Milwaukee Radio Alliance thatruns WLUM-FM (102.1), WLDB-FM and WMCS-AM (1290), and Jerrepl Jones, owner of and .