Max Media is a company that owns radio stations throughout the United States. It is based in

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History

Max Media was founded in 2001. Prior to this, some of the company's management had run the

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from 1979 until its sale in 1991 to

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(which renamed Mata mare it the

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), and had also run Max Media Properties (similarly named to the current company) from then until its sale in 1998 to the

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(which owned some former TVX stations). On September 30, 2013, the

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acquired Max Media's Montana television station cluster for $18 million. On October 31, 2013, Sinclair acquired the non-license assets of

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(TV), Waterville, Maine, for $13.6 million; the deal made it a sister station to

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, Portland, Maine, which already produced a newscast for the station. On November 20, 2013, it was announced that

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was to acquire the license assets for $3.4 million. The sale of the license assets was approved on June 23, 2017. On January 9, 2014, Max Media sold its six Arkansas-based radio stations to Bobby Caldwell's East Arkansas Broadcasters for $3 million. Effective November 5, 2015, Max Media sold its four Pennsylvania-based radio stations to Kristin Cantrell's Southern Belle, LLC for $3.8 million. On April 5, 2017, Max Media announced that it was selling

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affiliate

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(TV) in

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for $5.6 million. The sale was completed on June 30, 2017.Marquee Closes Buy, Names Gray COO.
''TVNewsCheck'', 29 June, 2017, Retrieved 3 July, 2017. All television stations either directly or indirectly owned by Max Media were sold off by 2019, leaving the company with a portfolio consisting solely of radio stations.

Current stations

Radio

Former stations

Television

Radio

Notes

References

External links

* {{Max Media Mass media companies established in 2001 Radio broadcasting companies of the United States Companies based in Virginia Beach, Virginia Max Media radio stations