Yearly Archives: 2021
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This summer marks the 25th anniversary of the founding of Mission Broadcasting, Inc. Our founder, David Smith, secured his first station on July 11, 1996, in Nashville, TN. Today Mission owns commercial television stations in 27 communities across the U.S., including WPIX in New York City! Our company, led by[...]
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WTVO in Rockford, Ill., just completed the seventh season of its high school quiz show, Bergstrom Stateline Quiz Bowl. The station has aired 230 episodes so far. “It has been just hugely successful,” says David Rydell, chairman of the Bergstrom Manufacturing company, the show’s title sponsor.