Groups that only own one TV station

[dgendvil]

Since this is a TV board, I would like add the following groups that only own one TV station:

KFMB (CBS), San Diego, owned by Midwest Television, which sold their Peoria & Champaign stations to Nexstar Broadcasting in 1999.

KSL (NBC), Salt Lake City, owned by Bonneville International & their only TV station owned by the Mormon Church. Also owns a bunch of radio stations. They had also owned channel 7 in Seattle for many years until A.H. Belo Corp. bought it in 1994. Therefore, a couple of years later, Belo bought the Providence Journal Company, which owned KING-TV. So channel 7, once owned by the mormons, sold the station to Cox Broadcasting of Atlanta. But channel 7 was out of the CBS affiliation for a couple of years & it seemed like they wanted their heritage affiliation back . Therefore, by July 1997, channel 7 was once again a CBS affiliate, & this time, Bonneville wasn't owning the CBS station. But don't expect the Mormon Church will buy another TV station like Seattle anytime soon.

WINK (CBS), Ft. Myers, owned by the McBride Family, which had owned it outright since 1954.

WSIL (ABC), Harrisburg/Cape Girardeau/Paducah, owned by Mel Wheeler, Inc., which sold KRCG-TV (CBS), Jefferson City to Barrington Broadcasting a couple of years back.

WYTV (ABC), Youngstown, still owned by Chelsey Broadcasting, couple of years after buying out most of their stations.

KJZZ (My Network), Salt Lake City, Larry Miller Communications, only station owned by the owner of the Utah Jazz. Added CBS 2 News every night at 9:00.

WCAX (CBS), Burlington, Mt. Mansfield Television, Stu Martin, the late owner founded the station & now his son owns it, continuing in his father's footsteps.

KTUD (was UPN, soon to be independent), Las Vegas, Greenspun Broadcasting, only station owned by the Las Vegas Sun. Also has a 10 pm newscast partnered with KLAS-TV.

KMVT (CBS), Twin Falls, now locally owned by the Neuhoff Family. It had been owned by Catamount Broadcasting, which had also owned stations in Chico/Redding & Valley City/Fargo, which is also selling KXJB-TV after Wicks Television is buying out all of their TV stations in North Dakota & South Dakota to Hoak Media. I know it was LMA'ed with KVLY-TV in Fargo, & I know it will be continued with their new ownerships. I'm not really sure if the Chico/Redding stations will continue it's ownership with Catamount or not all because the Twin Falls & Fargo stations were sold, so don't expect much from them.

Others:

KCAL (Ind.) Los Angeles, the only station owned by Disney Company before the company bought the ABC Network bought it in 1995. Therefore, after the ABC merger was completed, the station was spun off to Young Broadcasting for 6 years before Viacom bought it in 2002.

WWOR (Ind.), New York, the only station owned by MCA/Universal from 1987-91. Therefore, the station was sold to TV giant Chris Craft/United after Matushita bought it at that time. Now owned by Fox Television stations as a co-owner to WNYW-TV.

That's about it. Unless you know a another station group who only owns just one station, please let me know. Thanks.

 

[Markxxx]

I'd like to expand on this question. The groups you listed, do they own any other media outlets like newspapers or radio? That might be why they see no need to expand to greater number of TV outlets

 

[bhayes1016]

I'd like to expand on this question. The groups you listed, do they own any other media outlets like newspapers or radio? That might be why they see no need to expand to greater number of TV outlets

I think Larry Miller owns a radio station (presumably the Jazz' flagship station) as well.

 

[jal41]

You forgot KCRG (ABC/9) Cedar Rapids, IA. I don't think that it has ever changed ownership since it was started. They sold off their AM sister a couple of months ago.

 

[dhett]

KJZZ (My Network), Salt Lake City, Larry Miller Communications, only station owned by the owner of the Utah Jazz. Added CBS 2 News every night at 9:00.

Since you include LPTVs in your list, Larry Miller owns 11 stations: KJZZ and 10 LPTV translators.

 

[JeeperOne]

Hi everyone:

Doesn't McGraw Hill own only KMGH 7 here in Denver?

Also...Don't forget that Pacific Telestations owns full power KUAM 8 (NBC) and KUAM-LP 11 on Guam. In fact, I believe BOTH KUAM & full power ABC affiliate KTGM 14 are owned by companies that don't own any other broadcast (or at least not TV) properties.

Cheers

 

[hintomedia]

Doesn't McGraw Hill own only KMGH 7 here in Denver?

No. They also own KGTV/10 San Diego, KERO/23 Bakersfield, and WRTV/6 Indianapolis.

 

[KeithE4]

I think KTVN Ch. 2 Reno, NV is the only TV station still owned by Sarkes Tarzian.

 

[Kent]

I think KTVN Ch. 2 Reno, NV is the only TV station still owned by Sarkes Tarzian.

Unless things have changed recently, they had either WRCB or WTVC in Chattanooga. I seem to remember Sarkes-Tarzian having four TV's.

 

[adam95]

I think KTVN Ch. 2 Reno, NV is the only TV station still owned by Sarkes Tarzian.

Unless things have changed recently, they had either WRCB or WTVC in Chattanooga. I seem to remember Sarkes-Tarzian having four TV's.

In addition to KTVN, they own WRCB in Chattanooga. These are the only two TV stations they own. They do, however, own four radio stations--all in Indiana. Two apiece in Ft. Wayne and Bloomington. The company is headquartered in Bloomington.

 

[KeithE4]

In addition to KTVN, they own WRCB in Chattanooga. These are the only two TV stations they own. They do, however, own four radio stations--all in Indiana. Two apiece in Ft. Wayne and Bloomington. The company is headquartered in Bloomington.

Yep, know it well. I grew up in Bloomington. In fact my mother worked for Tarzian in the late '40s while a student at IU. Tarzian also owned the long-defunct Bloomington Courier-Tribune newspaper in the early '70s. I was really surprised when they sold WTTV in the mid '80s since that was their "flagship" station, but it was a shadow of its former self by that time.

I'd forgotten about them owning WRCB.