Max Media is a company that owns radio stations throughout the United States. It is based in
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Virginia Beach is an independent city (United States), independent city located on the southeastern coast of the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. The population was 459,470 at the 2020 United States cen ...
.
History
Max Media was founded in 2001. Prior to this, some of the company's management had run the
TVX Broadcast Group from 1979 until its sale in 1991 to
Paramount Communications
Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film and television production and distribution company and the main namesake division of Paramount Global (formerly ViacomCBS). It is the fifth-oldest film studio in the world, the second-oldest ...
(which renamed Mata mare
it the
Paramount Stations Group), and had also run Max Media Properties (similarly named to the current company) from then until its sale in 1998 to the
Sinclair Broadcast Group
Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. (SBG) is a publicly traded American telecommunications conglomerate that is controlled by the descendants of company founder Julian Sinclair Smith. Headquartered in the Baltimore suburb of Cockeysville, Maryland, ...
(which owned some former TVX stations).
On September 30, 2013, the
Cowles Publishing Company acquired Max Media's Montana television station cluster for $18 million.
On October 31, 2013, Sinclair acquired the non-license assets of
WPFO(TV), Waterville, Maine, for $13.6 million; the deal made it a sister station to
WGME-TV, Portland, Maine, which already produced a newscast for the station.
On November 20, 2013, it was announced that
Cunningham Broadcasting
Cunningham Broadcasting Corporation is an owner of broadcast television stations in the United States. The company currently owns fifteen stations – eight affiliated with Fox, three affiliated with The CW, two affiliated with ABC, and two affil ...
was to acquire the license assets for $3.4 million. The sale of the license assets was approved on June 23, 2017.
On January 9, 2014, Max Media sold its six Arkansas-based radio stations to Bobby Caldwell's East Arkansas Broadcasters for $3 million.
Effective November 5, 2015, Max Media sold its four Pennsylvania-based radio stations to Kristin Cantrell's Southern Belle, LLC for $3.8 million.
On April 5, 2017, Max Media announced that it was selling
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English-language commercial broadcast television and radio network. The flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast, its headquarters ...
affiliate
WNKY(TV) in
Bowling Green, Kentucky
Bowling Green is a home rule-class city and the county seat of Warren County, Kentucky, United States. Founded by pioneers in 1798, Bowling Green was the provisional capital of Confederate Kentucky during the American Civil War. As of the ...
to
Marquee Broadcasting for $5.6 million. The sale was completed on June 30, 2017.
Marquee Closes Buy, Names Gray COO.
''TVNewsCheck'', 29 June, 2017, Retrieved 3 July, 2017.
All television stations either directly or indirectly owned by Max Media were sold off by 2019, leaving the company with a portfolio consisting solely of radio stations.
Current stations
Radio
Former stations
Television
Radio
Notes
References
External links
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Mass media companies established in 2001
Radio broadcasting companies of the United States
Companies based in Virginia Beach, Virginia
Max Media radio stations