This is a list of stations owned by Innovate Corp. either under the HC2 Broadcasting, HC2 Holdings or DTV America

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names. Innovate owns and operates 251 television stations, 248 of which are low-power facilities (with 39 as Class A licenses) and three of which operate as full-service facilities. These stations span across 112 designated market areas in the United States ranging from as large as

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, to as small as

Quincy, Illinois Quincy ( ) is a city in Adams County, Illinois, United States, and its county seat. Located on the Mississippi River, the population was 39,463 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, down from 40,633 in 2010. The Quincy, Illinois, mic ...

, and

Traverse City, Michigan Traverse City ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is the county seat of Grand Traverse County, Michigan, Grand Traverse County, although it partly extends into Leelanau County, Michigan, Leelanau County. The city's population was 15, ...

. These stations have no local operations and rely almost entirely upon outsourced programming from third parties or the 24-hour feeds of

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s for content.

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is inserted from Innovate's central hub midstream during programming, without regard to each network's

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opportunity . There is no customization among stations in the station IDs, all of them being a ten-second PowerPoint slide with call letters, channel number and

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in italicized

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, and a default clock wipe in the middle of the sequence using the same

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cut. Sometimes, station IDs have displayed incorrect or out-of-date cities of license, or even the wrong identification for another station on the other side of the United States. Innovate's companies sometimes operate on licenses for stations hundred of miles away, and "jump" their city of license multiple times until they land in the right

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; in one case, a station licensed to

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, instead serves

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, and is low power, not even having rimshot coverage of a part of the Springfield market. One of their networks,

Azteca América Azteca América (, sometimes shortened to Azteca) was an American Spanish-language free-to-air television network owned by INNOVATE Corp., which acquired the network from the Azteca International Corporation subsidiary of TV Azteca. Headquar ...

, was owned by Innovate Corp. until ending operations on December 31, 2022. Former affiliates of Azteca América, many of which have not announced replacement programming, are listed as .

Current stations

Former stations

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