Barrington Broadcasting
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Company type | Private |
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| Genre | Television broadcasting |
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| Fate | Acquired by Sinclair |
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| Headquarters | , USA |
Number of locations | Fifteen ranked television markets (U.S.) |
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| Services | Broadcasting |
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| Parent | Pilot Group |
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Barrington Broadcasting Group, LLC was an American mass media and broadcasting company based in Schaumburg, Illinois. It owned television stations primarily in middle and small-sized media markets. Barrington owned or operated via duopoly twenty-four television stations, with the potential to reach about 3.4 percent of households in the U.S.[1] It was owned by Pilot Group, a private equity firm.
History
Barrington Broadcasting was established in May 2003 by a team of former executives from Benedek Broadcasting. Following Benedek's bankruptcy and subsequent divestiture of all television assets in 2002, K. James Yager, the former President, along with Senior Vice-Presidents Chris Cornelius, Keith Bland, and Mary Flodin, formed a company for medium and small market broadcasting.[2]
The company began operations in January 2004 with its purchases of former Benedek stations WHOI-TV (Peoria, Illinois) and KHQA-TV (Hannibal, Missouri/Quincy, Illinois) along with WEYI-TV in Vienna Township, Michigan. Barrington grew slowly at first, adding five more stations between 2004 and early 2006. A major expansion took place on March 27, 2006, when Raycom Media agreed to sell twelve of its network-affiliated TV stations to Barrington for $262 million.[3] The sale was completed on August 11.[4] In recent years, Barrington had been at the forefront of integrating social media and the internet into their on-air content.[2]
In late 2012, it was announced that Pilot Group had put Barrington up for sale and that both Nexstar Broadcasting Group and Sinclair Broadcast Group were in final talks to acquire the full regiment of stations.[5] On February 28, 2013, Barrington announced that it would sell its stations to Sinclair.[6] The sale was granted FCC approval on November 18.[7] The transaction was formally consummated on November 25.[8]
Former stations
- Stations are arranged in alphabetical order by state and city of license.
| Media market | State | Station | Purchased | Sold | Notes |
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| Colorado Springs–Pueblo | Colorado | KXRM-TV | 2006 | 2013 | |
| KXTU-LD | 2006 | 2013 | |||
| Albany | Georgia | WFXL | 2006 | 2013 | |
| Peoria–Bloomington | Illinois | WHOI | 2004 | 2013 | |
| Quincy | KHQA-TV | 2004 | 2013 | ||
| Marquette | Michigan | WLUC-TV | 2006 | 2013 | |
| Saginaw–Bay City–Flint | WEYI-TV | 2004 | 2013 | ||
| WBSF | 2004 | 2013 | |||
| Sault Ste. Marie, MI | WGTQ | 2009 | 2013 | [A][a] | |
| WTOM-TV | 2006 | 2013 | [B] | ||
| Traverse City | WGTU | 2009 | 2013 | [a] | |
| WPBN-TV | 2006 | 2013 | |||
| Columbia–Jefferson City | Missouri | KRCG | 2005 | 2013 | |
| Kirksville | KTVO | 2006 | 2013 | ||
| Clovis | New Mexico | KVIH-TV | 2005 | 2013 | [C] |
| Syracuse | New York | WSTM-TV | 2006 | 2013 | |
| WTVH | 2009 | 2013 | [a] | ||
| WSTQ-LP | 2006 | 2013 | |||
| Toledo | Ohio | WNWO-TV | 2006 | 2013 | |
| Columbia | South Carolina | WACH | 2006 | 2013 | |
| Florence–Myrtle Beach | WPDE-TV | 2005 | 2013 | ||
| WWMB | 2005 | 2013 | [a] | ||
| Amarillo | Texas | KVII-TV | 2005 | 2013 | |
| Harlingen–McAllen–Brownsville | KGBT-TV | 2006 | 2013 |
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."About Us". Barrington Broadcasting corporate website. 2012. Retrieved October 29, 2012.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Malone, Michael (2011). "K. James Yager, CEO and Co-founder, Barrington Broadcasting Group, LLC". Broadcasting & Cable magazine via website. Retrieved October 29, 2012.
- ^ Raycom and Barrington Announce Deal For Twelve Television Stations, businesswire.com, March 27, 2006, Retrieved November 6, 2018.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Barrington and Raycom Announce Completion of Transaction for Twelve Television Stations". Raycom Media. August 11, 2006. Archived from the original on August 21, 2006. Retrieved November 6, 2018.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Sinclair, Nexstar in Running for Barrington". TV News Check-Jack Messmer. November 29, 2012. Retrieved January 6, 2013.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Malone, Michael (February 28, 2013). "Sinclair's Chesapeake TV Acquires Barrington Stations". Broadcasting & Cable. Retrieved March 1, 2013.
- ^ FCC approves sales of three Syracuse TV stations cnyradio.com, Retrieved November 19, 2013
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Sinclair Broadcast Group Closes On Acquisition Of Barrington Stations". Sinclair Broadcast Group. November 25, 2013. Retrieved January 12, 2018.
