KDOC TV, the independent TV station in Irvine that’s home to reruns of “Kojak” and “Hawaii Five-O,” is being sold for $150 million.
Atlanta-based Ellis Communications Inc., headed by TV station veteran Bert Ellis, is buying KDOC, according to industry publication Broadcasting & Cable.
The deal is pending Federal Communications Commission approval.
Golden Orange Broadcasting, a group partly owned by singer Pat Boone, is selling KDOC.
The station shows reruns of old shows and also some games of the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. KDOC also does its own local news segment.
Earlier, the station made a name for itself running “Hot Seat with Wally George” and broadcasts of esoteric televangelist Gene Scott, who died last year. George died in 2003.
Ellis Communications is the second TV venture of founder Burt Ellis, who built up a company under the same name and sold it to Alabama’s Raycom Media Inc. in 1996.
Ellis went onto to become an Internet entrepreneur in the late 1990s. His iXL Enterprises Inc. hit upon hard times and later combined with New York’s Scient Corp., which went out of business.
His new company is backed by private equity firm Kelso & Co. of New York.
