Marquee Broadcasting, Inc. is a small broadcasting company which owns several television stations in the

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History

Marquee began in 2013 when its owners, Brian and Patricia Lane, announced its intent to acquire

WMDT WMDT (channel 47) is a television station in Salisbury, Maryland, United States, affiliated with ABC and The CW Plus. It is the flagship television property of locally based Marquee Broadcasting, and has common ownership with low-power Azteca ...

and its repeater, WEVD-LP for $9 million. The company's next acquisition came in 2015 when it closed its acquisition of WUGA-TV from the

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for $2.5 million. Following the acquisition, the station's primary affiliation changed to

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and changed its callsign to WGTA. In May 2016, Nexstar Broadcasting Group announced its sale of KREG-TV to Marquee Broadcasting. On April 5, 2017,

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announced that it entered an agreement to sell

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affiliate

WNKY WNKY (channel 40) is a television station in Bowling Green, Kentucky, United States, affiliated with NBC and CBS. Owned by Marquee Broadcasting, the station has studios on Chestnut Street in downtown Bowling Green, and its transmitter is locate ...

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to Marquee. On June 18, 2018, Marquee agreed to purchase WSST-TV in

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from Sunbelt-South Communications, Ltd. The sale is expected to be approved by the

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and close by the end of Fall 2018. On August 16, 2018,

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announced that it would sell WSWG, the CBS affiliate for

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, to Marquee; Marquee intends to combine WSST and WSWG's operations. On April 20, 2022, it was announced that Southeastern Ohio Broadcasting Corporation will sell their TV station

WHIZ-TV WHIZ-TV (channel 18) is a television station in Zanesville, Ohio, United States, affiliated with NBC, Fox and MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Marquee Broadcasting alongside the company's only radio properties— WHIZ (1240 AM), WHIZ-FM (92.7), and ...

, along with radio stations WHIZ,

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, and WZVL to Marquee Broadcasting for an undisclosed amount. The sale was completed on July 15.

Stations

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References

{{Marquee Broadcasting Television broadcasting companies of the United States Privately held companies based in Maryland Mass media companies established in 2013