Legacy Broadcasting, LLC is a broadcasting company founded in 2014 by Sherry Nelson and her daughter Sara Jane Nelson.

History

Legacy Broadcasting began in 2014 when it announced it would acquire four television stations from

Gray Television Gray Television, Inc. is an American publicly traded television broadcasting company based in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1946 by James Harrison Gray as Gray Communications Systems, the company owns or operates 180 stations across the United St ...

that had been owned or controlled via joint sales and shared services agreements by Hoak Media. The stations were KAQY, KHAS-TV, and KNDX and its satellite KXND. The stations went silent while the consummation of the transactions were pending. During this period, Gray re-called the stations based on their locations and transferred the stations' primary network affiliations to subchannels of competing stations that they already owned. The sales closed in 2015 and the stations returned to the air under Legacy ownership in the summer of 2015. On October 1, 2015, Gray announced the sale of Schurz Communications-owned

KOTA-TV KOTA-TV (channel 3) is a television station in Rapid City, South Dakota, United States, affiliated with ABC. It is owned by Gray Television alongside MeTV affiliate KHME (channel 23) and low-power Fox affiliate KEVN-LD (channel 7). The stati ...

, the oldest television station in

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, for $1. Gray will transfer the station's ABC affiliation to KEVN-TV but KOTA will remain affiliated with

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and

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at the close of the sale. KOTA satellite KHSD-TV is also included in the sale to Legacy. On May 21, 2018, Legacy Broadcasting entered an agreement to sell KNHL to Gray for $475,000. Gray intends to turn KNHL into a satellite of its NBC affiliate KSNB-TV. The sale was finalized on March 1, 2019. On October 13, 2021, it was announced that KHME and KQME would be sold to Gray for $500,000; making KHME a sister station to KOTA-TV and KEVN-LD. The sale was finalized on November 30."Notification of Consummation"
Licensing and Management System,

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, 30 November 2021, Retrieved 30 November 2021.

Stations

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References

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