Lilly buys Media One

[ProgrammingVet]

Lilly Broadcasting Acquires Media One Clusters In Ashtabula OH & Jamestown NY

Lilly Broadcasting is acquiring Media One’s properties in Ashtabula OH and Jamestown NY. Lilly, which owns television stations in Erie PA, Elmira NY, Marquette MI, Puerto Rico, The Virgin Islands, and Guam, currently owns CHR “Happi 92.7” WICU-FM Erie and three stations in Warren PA: WICU-FM...

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[Santa fe]

Does this mark the Embrescia family's retirement from broadcasting or do they still have other properties?

 

[MediaLover]

Media One is going from owning six stations in Northeast Ohio at the beginning of 2025 (they did sell WQGR Gold 93.7 to a different company) to zero at the beginning of 2026. It will be interesting to see if Lilly will have its Erie TV stations integrate more with the newly acquired Ashtabula stations.

 

[Rusty Muck]

Does this mark the Embrescia family's retirement from broadcasting or do they still have other properties?

Almost, Tom Embresica filed to sell KFXA in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to Sinclair Broadcast Group (who had been running the station since 2002). Once that and this close, the family will be completely out of the media buisness.

 

[ProgrammingVet]

Media One is going from owning six stations in Northeast Ohio at the beginning of 2025 (they did sell WQGR Gold 93.7 to a different company) to zero at the beginning of 2026. It will be interesting to see if Lilly will have its Erie TV stations integrate more with the newly acquired Ashtabula stations.

Media One sold WQGR/93.7 to Music Express Broadcasting, owners of WKKY/Geneva.