Vaughan Media, LLC is a company which owns the broadcast licenses of several stations operated by

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History

The company was founded in 2011 when it made its first acquisition, WBDT, from

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LIN Media LIN Media was an American holding company founded in 1994 that operated 43 television stations. All except one were affiliates of the six major U.S. television networks. One of the remaining stations was a low powered weather station in In ...

, the owner of

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, could not legally own both WDTN and WBDT. It sold off certain assets, including WBDT's broadcast license, to Vaughan Media. The sale was consummated on May 20, 2011, at which point LIN took control of the station via a

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with WDTN. In 2012, the company acquired television stations owned by PBC Broadcasting which were operated by

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. In August 2014, it was announced that

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would take over the

to operate

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as well as rights to acquire the station. Sinclair exercised the option and acquired the station upon close of the sale of LIN Media to

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. The remaining Vaughan stations continued under operation by Media General after the LIN sale. On January 17, 2017,

closed its acquisition of Media General and took over operation of the Vaughan stations.

Stations

Current

Former Vaughan stations

References

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