Deerfield Media

Deerfield Media is a broadcasting company and a shell corporation owned by Stephen P. Mumblow, established in 2012 by the acquisition of several television stations connected to the Sinclair Broadcast Group. All of its stations are part of duopolies with another Sinclair-owned station, and are operated under local marketing agreements or similar by Sinclair.

As a part of its acquisition of multiple stations from Newport Television, Sinclair sold WSTR-TV and KMYS (MyNetworkTV and The CW affiliates respectively) to Deerfield, and also gave them an option to purchase WJTC and WPMI at a later date.[1][2] Deerfield Media also acquired KBTV-TV, a Fox affiliate in Beaumont, Texas, from Nexstar Broadcasting Group, whose operations were assumed by Sinclair's KFDM.[3] Through an option exercised by Sinclair, Deerfield also acquired WUTB, a MyNetworkTV affiliate owned by Fox Television Stations. This purchase created a triopoly between Sinclair's Fox affiliate, WBFF, and CW affiliate, WNUV (owned by Cunningham Broadcasting, and also operated under an LMA by Sinclair).[4] Deerfield also reached a deal to acquire the license assets of WHAM-TV, an ABC affiliate in Rochester, New York, also from Newport Television,[5] and to acquire KAME-TV, the MyNetworkTV affiliate in Reno, Nevada, from Ellis Communications in February 2013 as part of Sinclair's purchase of KRXI-TV from Cox Media Group.[6]

Stations currently owned by Deerfield Media

Stations are arranged alphabetically by state and by city of license.

City of license / market Station Channel
TV (RF)		 Owned since Primary network affiliation
Pensacola, FL - Mobile, AL WPMI-TV 15 (15) 2012 NBC
WJTC 44 (45) 2012 Independent
Baltimore, MD WUTB 24 (41) 2013 MyNetworkTV
Reno, NV KAME-TV 21 (20) 2013 MyNetworkTV
Rochester, NY WHAM-TV 13 (13) 2013 ABC
Cincinnati, OH WSTR-TV 64 (33) 2012 MyNetworkTV
Port Arthur - Beaumont, TX KBTV-TV 4 (40) 2012 Fox
Kerrville - San Antonio, TX KMYS 35 (32) 2012 The CW

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Sinclair Broadcast to buy 7 TV outlets for $452.5M". MarketWatch. Retrieved 19 July 2012.
  2. ↑ "Newport Sells 22 Stations For $1 Billion". TVNewsCheck. Retrieved 20 July 2012.
  3. ↑ "APPLICATION FOR CONSENT TO ASSIGNMENT OF BROADCAST STATION CONSTRUCTION PERMIT OR LICENSE". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved August 23, 2012.
  4. ↑ "Sinclair Makes It A Triopoly in Baltimore". TVNewsCheck. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
  5. ↑ http://rbr.com/sinclairs-rochester-dealings-detailed/
  6. ↑ "Sinclair Buys Four Cox Stations". TVNewsCheck. February 25, 2013. Retrieved February 25, 2013.


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