Johnson Broadcasting, Inc was a privately owned television broadcasting firm based in

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. The company was founded, owned and operated by Douglas R. Johnson (''this is not the same Doug Johnson, who was the late former weathercaster with NBC affiliate KPRC Channel 2 in

'').

Company Troubles

On October 16, 2008; Douglas Johnson and this company filed for voluntary

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due to Douglas’s Ex Wife Melanie Churella Johnson of Houston, TX. Johnson Broadcasting continues to run as a

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and two TV stations remain on the air. In October 2009, it was announced that Johnson Broadcasting may be forced to sell KLDT and KNWS to

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. The sale of these stations to Una Vez Más was approved by the bankruptcy court on December 29, 2009 and has finally received FCC approval September 27, 2010 after the FCC rejected a petition to deny the sale made by Spanish Broadcasting System. The call letters for both KLDT and KNWS were respectively changed to KAZD and KYAZ. In 2014, Una Vez Mas' TV assets were then sold to Northstar Media,

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. In turn, HC2 Holdings acquired Northstar Media in addition to Azteca América on November 29, 2017, making KAZD and KYAZ Azteca owned-and-operated stations. On October 28, 2020 HC2 Holdings Unit sold KAZD and KYAZ to Weigel Broadcasting. The sale was completed on December 29 and Weigel converted both stations to MeTV owned-and-operated stations on March 29, 2021; both stations retain affiliation with Azteca America via their third digital subchannels."Weigel Captures Four Properties From HC2"
''RBR-TVBR'', 2 November 2020, Retrieved 30 March 2021. KAZD moved MeTV to KAZD-DT2 and began a simulcast of Spectrum News 1 on KAZD-DT1 in July 15, 2022.

Former Stations

References

Defunct broadcasting companies of the United States Companies based in Houston Companies that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2008 {{US-bcast-stub