Gray Looks to Buy Two Stations from Sagamore Hill Broadcasting

Grey Media stated it’s shopping for WLTZ, the NBC affiliate for the Columbus, Georgia, market (DMA 127) and KJTV, the Fox affiliate for the Lubbock, Texas, market (DMA 140) from Sagamore Hill Broadcasting.The station group stated it has offered back-office providers to each stations by means of its Columbus ABC affiliate WTVM and its Lubbock NBC affiliate KCBD for a number of years.Grey stated it would request waivers of the FCC’s present native broadcast possession rule underneath the identical “failing station” waiver normal by means of which the FCC has approved related combos over the previous 25 years, together with earlier this 12 months in reference to Grey’s acquisition from SagamoreHill Broadcasting of KXLT, the Fox affiliated tv station within the Rochester, Minnesota market.Grey Media, Inc. is the nation’s largest proprietor of native tv stations and digital property serving 113 tv markets that collectively attain roughly 37 % of US tv households. Its portfolio contains 78 markets with the top-rated tv station and 99 markets with the primary and/or second highest rated tv station throughout 2024, in addition to the most important Telemundo Affiliate group with 44 markets.