SagamoreHill Broadcasting LLC is a privately held American

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that owns 13 television stations based in the Great Lakes and southern

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regions. The company is a joint venture of the investment firm Duff Ackerman & Goodrich of

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and former

Benedek Broadcasting Benedek Broadcasting was a television broadcasting company, who owned and operated 22 network-affiliated television stations throughout the United States, all affiliated with major television networks, serving mainly small and medium-size markets. ...

and

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executive Louis Wall (who is also CEO of the group). The company is headquartered in

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History

The company was founded in 2003. In 2005, SagamoreHill Broadcasting acquired

KXLT-TV KXLT-TV (channel 47) is a television station licensed to Rochester, Minnesota, United States, serving as the Fox affiliate for Southeast Minnesota and Northern Iowa. It is owned by SagamoreHill Broadcasting alongside Telemundo affiliate KXSH-L ...

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as a result of Quincy Newspapers' purchase of Shockley Communications (the former owner of KXLT-TV), and Quincy could not buy KXLT outright due to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules governing duopolies. In 2007, SagamoreHill Broadcasting acquired

WLTZ WLTZ (channel 38) is a television station in Columbus, Georgia, United States, affiliated with NBC and The CW Plus. It is owned by SagamoreHill Broadcasting, which maintains a shared services agreement (SSA) with Gray Television, owner of A ...

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from J. Curtis Lewis.http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6437753.html?rssid=193 On July 23, 2008, SagamoreHill Broadcasting acquired the license of KZTV in

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to comply with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules; it was originally sold by Eagle Creek Broadcasting (KZTV's former owner) to Cordillera Communications. However, the application to sell the station was opposed by McKinnon Broadcasting, then-owner of

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. This objection held up the deal until August 24, 2009, when Eagle Creek announced a shared services agreement with KRIS-TV. Cordillera acquired all station assets with Eagle Creek owning KZTV's broadcast license. SagamoreHill finally assumed ownership of the KZTV license on May 19, 2010. In 2017, the company acquired the license assets of Surtsey Media/Saga Communications' television clusters in Joplin, Missouri, including

KOAM-TV KOAM-TV (channel 7) is a television station licensed to Pittsburg, Kansas, United States, serving the Joplin, Missouri–Pittsburg, Kansas media market, market as an affiliate of CBS. It is owned by Morgan Murphy Media, which provides certain s ...

, and Victoria, Texas, including

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. SagamoreHill became the owner of

KFJX KFJX (channel 14) is a television station licensed to Pittsburg, Kansas, United States, serving the Joplin, Missouri–Pittsburg, Kansas market as an affiliate of Fox and The CW Plus. It is owned by SagamoreHill Broadcasting, which maintains ...

in Joplin, Missouri, and

KVCT KVCT (channel 19) is a television station in Victoria, Texas, United States, affiliated with Fox and The CW Plus. It is owned by SagamoreHill Broadcasting, which maintains a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Morgan Murphy Media, owner of AB ...

in Victoria, Texas; both stations are operated by

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Stations

Current

Notes: *¹ Operated by

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through a

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(SSA). *² Operated by

Gray Television Gray Television, Inc. is an American publicly traded television broadcasting company based in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1946 by James Harrison Gray as Gray Communications Systems, the company owns or operates 180 stations across the United St ...

through a SSA. *³ Operated by

through a SSA. *⁴ Operated by the

E. W. Scripps Company The E. W. Scripps Company is an American broadcasting company founded in 1878 as a chain of daily newspapers by Edward Willis "E. W." Scripps and his sister, Ellen Browning Scripps. It was also formerly a media conglomerate. The company is he ...

through a SSA. *⁵ Operated by

Waypoint Media Waypoint Media is a confederation of holding companies that own and operate radio and television stations mostly in small cities in the United States. Primary owners of the various companies include Mike Reed, William Christian and Paige Christian ...

through a SSA.

Former

Notes: *¹ Under SagamoreHill ownership, it was operated by

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through a SSA. *² Under SagamoreHill ownership, it was operated by Barrington Broadcasting through a SSA.

References

External links

Official Website
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