Television station sold for $18.7M

TAMPA — WUSF Public Media will end broadcasting of its television channel Oct. 15.

The end of broadcasting comes after the sale of the WUSF TV broadcast license in the Federal Communications Commission Spectrum Incentive Auction. The station was sold for $18.7 million, according to a press release.

The FCC held a spectrum auction to improve and expand wireless services across the country in which TV broadcasters voluntarily gave up broadcast channels in exchange for a share of the proceeds, the reelase adds.