The FCC yesterday approved Bayou City Broadcasting’s purchase of Sage Broadcasting’s small group of TV stations in West Texas for $3 million.

The group comprises KIDY San Angelo (Fox, DMA 197), KXVA/KIDZ-LP Abilene (Fox/MNT, DMA 164) and four other low-power stations.

KIDY was among the original Fox affiliates, signing on in 1986.

The deal marks Sage’s exit from TV broadcasting.

Bayou has been running the stations under a local marketing agreement since last February when the parties struck the deal.

Bayou City is headed by DuJuan McCoy, a 19-year local sales veteran who most recently was general sales manager at KRIV/KTXH, Fox’s duopoly in Houston

At closing, Bayou City will become the only African-American-owned broadcast company affiliated with Fox, according to the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council.

“This is just the beginning for Bayou City,” said McCoy said in a statement at the time the deal was announced.

Kalil & Co. represented Sage Broadcasting in the transaction, while MMTC represented Bayou.