Attachment Pending Application

This document pretains to SES-ASG-20140903-00701 for Assignment on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

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FCC Form 312 Pending Application It is noted that the assignor is an indirect subsidiary of Media General, Inc. (“Media General”). Media General has entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger with LIN Media LLC (“LIN”) which will combine the operations of the LIN and Media General broadcast television stations, as well as the earth station facilities used in connection with them (the “Merger Transaction”). In connection with that Merger Transaction, applications are pending before the Commission seeking consent to the transfer of control of the Media General and LIN stations to Post-Merger Shareholders of Media General, Inc., including an application for earth station E030019 in FCC File No. SES-T/C-20140514-00370. At this time, LIN and Media General are filing additional applications with the FCC’s Media Bureau which represent a combination of (i) required divestitures by (post-merger) Media General in certain television markets in which the combined company would exceed the broadcast ownership limits, (ii) the sale of additional stations to the divestiture station buyers that are not legally required for the Merger Transaction, but which are part of the divestiture transactions, and (iii) the purchase by (post-merger) Media General of stations from divestiture station buyers to accomplish like-kind station “swaps” for stations being divested by (post- merger) Media General. 1 The assignment of license of E030019 is in furtherance of the required divestiture of a broadcast television station in the Providence, RI – New Bedford, MA television market. As this divestiture is contingent upon the grant of the Merger Transaction applications and their consummation, it is respectfully requested that the instant application be processed simultaneously with the application in FCC File No. SES-T/C-20140514-00370. 1 To facilitate like-kind exchanges for tax purposes, the transactions are proposed to be consummated by the named entities as controlled by post-merger Media General, requiring the individual transactions to be contingent upon the prior closing of the Merger Transaction.


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