Mission Broadcasting

Mission Broadcasting, Inc. is a television station group that owns 20 television stations in 17 markets in the United States. The group's Chair is Nancie Smith, the widow of David S. Smith (who died in March 2011), who founded the company in 1996.[3] All of Mission's stations are located in markets where the Nexstar Media Group also owns a station, and are managed by Nexstar through shared services and local marketing agreements—effectively creating duopolies between the top two stations in a market or in markets with too few stations or unique station owners to legally allow duopolies.[4] The company moved their headquarters from Westlake, Ohio to Wichita Falls, Texas in 2018.

Mission Broadcasting, Inc.
Private
IndustryBroadcasting
Founded1996 [1]
FounderNancie Smith
Headquarters
Wichita Falls, Texas [2]
,
U.S.
Key people
Nancie Smith (Chairwoman)
Dennis Thatcher (President)
Revenue$51.9 million
Number of employees
39
Websitemissionbroadcastinginc.com

History

On December 19, 2013, Mission Broadcasting announced it was acquiring KFQX for $4 million.[5] The sale was approved on February 27, 2017[6] and finalized on March 31.[7]

On March 30, 2020, Mission agreed to acquire certain assets of KMSS, KPEJ, and KLJB from Marshall Broadcasting Group for $49 million.[8]

On July 13, 2020, Nexstar Media Group transferred its option to purchase WPIX from E.W. Scripps Company to Mission Broadcasting. Mission exercised the option and announced it was acquiring WPIX for $75 million.[9]

Television stations

Stations are arranged alphabetically by state and by city of license.

City of License / Market Station Channel
TV (RF)		 Owned since Current affiliation Nexstar operator
Little Rock KLRT-TV 16 (30) 2013 Fox
The CW (DT3)		 KARK-TV
KARZ-TV
KASN 38 (34) 2013 The CW
Grand Junction KFQX 4 (15) 2017 Fox
CBS (DT2)		 KREX-TV
KGJT-CD
Rockford WTVO 17 (16) 2004 ABC
MyNetworkTV (DT2)		 WQRF-TV
Evansville WTVW 7 (22) 2011 The CW WEHT
Terre Haute WAWV-TV 38 (18) 2003 ABC WTWO
Monroe - El Dorado KTVE 10 (27) 2007 NBC
Fox (DT2)		 KARD
Joplin - Pittsburg KODE-TV 12 (23) 2002 ABC KSNF
Springfield - Branson KOLR 10 (10) 2003 CBS KOZL-TV
KRBK
Hardin - Billings KHMT 4 (22) 2004 Fox KSVI
Utica - Rome WUTR 20 (30) 2004 ABC
MyNetworkTV (DT2)		 WFXV
WPNY-LP
Erie WFXP 66 (26) 1998 Fox WJET-TV
Wilkes-Barre - Scranton WYOU 22 (13) 1998 CBS WBRE-TV
Abilene - Sweetwater KRBC-TV 9 (29) 2003 NBC KTAB-TV
Amarillo KCIT 14 (15) 1999 Fox KAMR-TV
KCPN-LP 33 (4.2) 1999 MyNetworkTV
Lubbock KAMC 28 (27) 2003 ABC KLBK-TV
San Angelo KSAN-TV 3 (16) 2003 NBC KLST
Wichita Falls - Lawton KJTL 18 (15) 1999 Fox KFDX-TV
KJBO-LP 35 (3.2) 1999 MyNetworkTV
Burlington - Plattsburgh WVNY 22 (13) 2013 ABC WFFF-TV

See also

References
  1. https://missionbroadcastinginc.com/
  2. https://missionbroadcastinginc.com/contact/
  3. Mission Broadcasting, Inc. Company Profile - Yahoo! Finance Archived August 8, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  4. "Virtual Duopolies Coming Under Fire". TVNewsCheck. Retrieved 30 May 2012.
  5. Gray Sell Grand Junction Duop To Nexstar, PR Newswire, 19 December 2013
  6. Notice. CDBS Public Access, Federal Communications Commission, 27 February 2017, Retrieved 28 February 2017.
  7. Consummation Notice, CDBS Public Access, Federal Communications Commission, Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  8. "Mission Broadcasting to buy certain assets of Marshall Broadcasting TV stations". S&P Global Market Intelligence. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
  9. "Mission Broadcasting to acquire The CW affiliate WPIX". S&P Global Market Intelligence. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
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