THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Saturday, April 8, 1995                TAG: 9504080233
SECTION: BUSINESS                 PAGE: D2   EDITION: FINAL 
SOURCE: STAFF REPORT 
                                             LENGTH: Short :   26 lines

BEACH-BASED MAX AGREES TO PURCHASE 2 TV STATIONS

Max Television Co. of Virginia Beach has signed agreements to purchase TV stations in Dayton, Ohio, and Cape Girardeau, Mo., in two separate deals.

Max agreed to pay $40 million for WKEF-TV, the NBC affiliate in Dayton. That station is owned by a Citicorp affiliate.

Max hasn't disclosed the purchase price for KBSI-TV of Cape Girardeau, a Fox Broadcasting affiliate that Max is buying from Engles Communications Inc.

Max, whose principals are Charles McFadden, Aubrey E. Loving Jr., John A. Trinder and F. Gray Kiger Jr., owns Fox stations in Syracuse, N.Y., and Tri-Cities, Tenn. Max recently sold WTVZ-TV, a Fox affiliate in Norfolk, to Baltimore-based Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. for $48 million.

McFadden said Max is interested in buying other TV stations. by CNB