Richard Schilg Acquires WDEM Columbus

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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 is content director at B+C and Multichannel News. He joined B+C in 2005 and has covered network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television, including writing the "Local News Close-Up" market profiles. He also hosted the podcasts "Busted Pilot" and "Series Business." His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Boston Globe and New York magazine.