Richard Schilg Acquires WDEM Columbus

By Michael Malone
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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Richard Schilg’s Minority Brands has agreed to acquire WDEM Columbus for $75,000. The seller is Triplett & Associates, which is owned by Marc Triplett.

WDEM is the Telemundo station in DMA No. 32. It is a Class A digital station.

Schilg is the chairman/president/CEO of the business services company Freedommark, and president of Guardian Enterprise Group. Guardian Enterprise Group had planned to launch the entertainment digi-net called .2 in 2008 and then 2009, but it never did launch.

Michael Malone
Michael Malone

Michael Malone, senior content producer at B+C/Multichannel News, covers network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television. He hosts the podcasts Busted Pilot, about what’s new in television, and Series Business, a chat with the creator of a new program, and writes the column “The Watchman.” He joined B+C in 2005. His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Playboy and New York magazine.