Marshall Broadcasting Group, Inc. was an American television broadcasting company that owned three full power television stations in

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and

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. The company was founded on December 1, 2014 by Pluria Marshall, Jr. All three of its television stations were affiliated with

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and were operated through shared services agreements by

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History

The company is owned by Pluria Marshall, Jr., who also owns Wave Community Newspapers, a group of African-American community newspapers in the Los Angeles region. Marshall had attempted to acquire stations in the 1990s and 2000s, but faced difficulties securing financing. In 2014, Nexstar Broadcasting Group acquired the stock of television operators Grant Broadcasting, Communications Corporation of America, and White Knight Broadcasting. Due to FCC ownership limits, Nexstar sold former Grant station KLJB in

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, and former ComCorp stations

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in Odessa, Texas and

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, all three of which are Fox affiliates, to Marshall Broadcasting Group. Nexstar operates all three of the television stations through a shared services agreement, providing non-programming resources to the stations such as

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, advertising sales and engineering support. On April 3, 2019, the company filed a lawsuit against Nexstar Media Group for breach of contract, alleging that the company used the sale of these stations to minority owners as a ploy to gain favor with the FCC for the associated transactions, but had been engaging in conduct (including withholding retransmission consent fees) intended to "undermine" the company, so that its stations could be repurchased by Nexstar for a lower cost "

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significantly less regulatory push-back" under the current political climate. On December 3, 2019, Marshall Broadcasting Group filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Mission Broadcasting, another company associated with Nexstar Media Group, agreed to purchase Marshall Broadcasting's stations for $49 million on March 30, 2020. The transaction was completed on September 1, 2020."Consummation Notice"
''CDBS Public Access'',

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, 7 September 2020, Retrieved 10 September 2020.

Former Marshall-owned stations

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* {{Official website, https://mbgroup.tv/ 2014 establishments in Texas 2020 disestablishments in Texas American companies established in 2014 American companies disestablished in 2020 Companies based in Houston Mass media companies established in 2014 Mass media companies disestablished in 2020 Nexstar Media Group Defunct broadcasting companies of the United States Companies that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2019