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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.
Dish Subscribers in 21 Markets Left in the Dark as NFL Season Begins WICHITA FALLS, TX (SEPT. 11, 2020)—Mission Broadcasting television stations in 21 markets across the United States tonight were forced off Dish Network’s satellite distribution system at 7 p.m. ET, when the contract between Mission and Dish expired.[...]
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In September 2012, Salem, N.H.-based John Viall Jr. — a former VP/Engineering and Operations at the former LIN Media since January 2003 — acquired the facilities housing the MyNetworkTV and CW Network affiliates serving the vast Albuquerque DMA. Viall’s Tamer Media paid $17.3 million for the stations, and carved out an option agreement that allowed the[...]
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On Tuesday, RBR+TVBR exclusively reported on a move that saw a shared services agreement partner of Nexstar Media Group execute an option agreement forged in September 2012 that transfers control of an Albuquerque TV station to another SSA partner Nexstar enjoys a cozy relationship with. It is now known that this licensee, led by Dennis Thatcher (pictured),[...]
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First, it was an Albuquerque station licensed to John Viall Jr.‘s Tamer Media. Then came two stations licensed to Sheldon Galloway-led Shield Media. Now, a UHF station in Providence offering FOX and The CW Network on a digital multicast channel is the latest station tied to Nexstar Media Group to be transferred from a services agreement[...]
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Mission Broadcasting has exercised an option to acquire WPIX-TV, New York. The option was granted to Nexstar Media Group when it sold eight stations to Scripps in order to comply with federal regulation after Nexstar bought Tribune Media. Nexstar transferred the option to require WPIX to Mission, according to Scripps.[...]
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