Bayou City Broadcasting, LLC was a broadcasting company founded in December 2007 and was owned by DuJuan McCoy. The company was based in

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. It is defunct as of September 2020 due to its acquisition by

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History

The company's first acquisition of stations occurred in January 2008, when it acquired several television stations in West Texas from Sage Broadcasting for $3 million, including Fox affiliates in Abilene and San Angelo. Bayou City briefly exited broadcasting when it sold those stations to

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-based London Broadcasting in September 2012. The company re-entered the broadcasting business in 2015 when it acquired

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. The station had been owned by

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(ComCorp), which Nexstar Broadcasting Group was in the midst of purchasing. However, Nexstar was forced to divest the station since it already owned

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and

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, and Bayou City emerged as the successful buyer. On March 16, 2016, Bayou City Broadcasting announced it would purchase two more stations from Nexstar,

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(former flagship station of ComCorp) of Lafayette, Louisiana and its sister station KLAF-LD. Nexstar was acquiring

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, and planned to retain

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—the area's long-time CBS affiliate, instead. On April 8, 2019, it was announced that DuJuan McCoy would acquire two more Nexstar stations—

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and

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in Indianapolis—for $42.5 million, under the new company Circle City Broadcasting. Nexstar divested the stations (which it acquired via its purchase of Media General) in its subsequent purchase of

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, electing to retain Tribune's duopoly of CBS station

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and Fox station

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, rather than retain WISH (which switched to

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after losing CBS to WTTV). The following month, it was announced that Bayou City Broadcasting's stations would be sold to

for $165 million.

Stations

Former Bayou City stations

References

External links

*{{official website, www.bayoucitybroadcasting.com Television broadcasting companies of the United States Mass media companies established in 2007 2007 establishments in Texas 2020 disestablishments in Texas Entertainment Studios