Grey Media mentioned it’s shopping for WLTZ, the NBC affiliate for the Columbus, Georgia, market (DMA 127) and KJTV, the Fox affiliate for the Lubbock, Texas, market (DMA 140) from Sagamore Hill Broadcasting.
The station group mentioned it has offered back-office providers to each stations by way of its Columbus ABC affiliate WTVM and its Lubbock NBC affiliate KCBD for a number of years.
Grey mentioned it is going to request waivers of the FCC’s present native broadcast possession rule below the identical “failing station” waiver commonplace by way of which the FCC has approved comparable combos over the previous 25 years, together with earlier this yr in reference to Grey’s acquisition from SagamoreHill Broadcasting of KXLT, the Fox affiliated tv station within the Rochester, Minnesota market.
Grey Media, Inc. is the nation’s largest proprietor of native tv stations and digital property serving 113 tv markets that collectively attain roughly 37 p.c of US tv households. Its portfolio contains 78 markets with the top-rated tv station and 99 markets with the primary and/or second highest rated tv station throughout 2024, in addition to the biggest Telemundo Affiliate group with 44 markets.
