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Station Making $14M Move to Suburbs

DETROIT-Public television station WTVS-Channel 56 is buying a Wixombuilding, the former home of bankrupt Clover Technologies Inc., in a $14 million deal.

By Dan Heaton | Updated on October 20, 2004

DETROIT-Detroit’s public TV station is moving to Wixom, despite a high-profile effort by the city to keep the station in Motown. WTVS-Channel 56 says the move to Wixom will allow it to become a digital station with upgraded technology.

The 85-employee station will move to the former home of Clover Technologies Inc., a network-integration company that filed for bankruptcy in 2003. WTVS says the building is equipped with fiber-opticcable and electronic control rooms and will be cheaper to modify into a digital TV station than building a new studio, which was the station’s other option.

WTVS general manager Steve Antoniotti says the station plans to spend about $14 million to buy the 40,000-sf office space and upgrade it. Station executives indicated in March that Channel 56 was considering building a new studio and headquarters outside Detroit because it couldn’t find a spot to build in the Cultural Center, its first choice.

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