Media General, Inc. was an American

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based in

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. The company's origins can be traced back to 1887 when Richmond attorney Joseph Bryan acquired ''The Richmond Daily Times'', which later became ''The

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''. Joseph Bryan's son,

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succeeded his father as owner and publisher of the ''Times-Dispatch'', which merged with ''

The Richmond News Leader ''The Richmond News Leader'' was an afternoon daily newspaper published in Richmond, Virginia from 1888 to 1992. During much of its run, it was the largest newspaper source in Richmond, competing with the morning '' Richmond Times-Dispatch''. By ...

'' in 1940 to form Richmond Newspapers, Inc. After John Stewart Bryan's death in 1944, his son, D. Tennant Bryan led the company into a period of expansion into television, changing the company's name to Media General in 1969. Media General, Inc. began trading on the

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in 1970. In 1990, J. Stewart Bryan III, great-grandson of Joseph Bryan, became chairman, president and chief executive officer of Media General. The fourth-generation Bryan oversaw the company's expansion into digital media and the sale of Media General's newspaper division to

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in 2012. J. Stewart Bryan III remained chairman of Media General until his death on January 23, 2016. In 2013 and 2014, Media General expanded significantly through mergers with

Young Broadcasting Young Broadcasting, LLC was an American media company that owned or operated 12 television stations in 10 markets with a total U.S. television household coverage of 5.9%. The company was formerly known as Young Broadcasting Inc. and was the out ...

and

LIN Media LIN Media was an American holding company founded in 1994 that operated 43 television stations. All except one were affiliates of the six major U.S. television networks. One of the remaining stations was a low-powered weather station in In ...

. After the latter merger, LIN Media CEO Vincent L. Sadusky became chief executive officer of Media General while former Young Broadcasting CEO Deborah A. McDermott led station operations as Chief Operating Officer. Long-time Media General CFO James F. Woodward remained as Chief Financial Officer until the company's dissolution in 2017. On January 11, 2017, the FCC approved the sale of Media General to

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for $4.6 billion.

History

The conglomeration of newspapers was founded in 1940 when owners of

's two newspapers, the '' Times-Dispatch'' and '' News Leader'', merged them to form Richmond Newspapers, Inc. In 1966, it purchased a majority interest in the ''

Tampa Tribune ''The Tampa Tribune'' was a daily newspaper published in Tampa, Florida. Along with the competing ''Tampa Bay Times'', the ''Tampa Tribune'' was one of two major newspapers published in the Tampa Bay area. The newspaper also published a ''St. P ...

'', which included

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- FM- TV in

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, making that the company's first ever foray into television, a strategy that was later used by such acquisition practices. In 1969, as the company's media properties grew and diversified, it was renamed Media General.

Additional acquisitions

In 1981, the company began its expansion practice of television stations under the Media General Telecommunications subsidiary. It first purchased

WJKS-TV WCWJ (channel 17) is a television station in Jacksonville, Florida, United States, affiliated with The CW. It is owned by Graham Media Group alongside independent station WJXT (channel 4). The two stations share studios at 4 Broadcast Place on t ...

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from Ziff-Davis Broadcasting on December 7, 1981, for $18 million, the sale was approved on November 8, 1982. On July 5, 1982, the company bought out

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in Charleston from the

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for $8 million, the deal was approved on January 24, 1983. In 1982 the company acquired The William B. Tanner Company (previously known as Pepper-Tanner), a commercial

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production company headquartered in

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. It was divested in 1988. In 1987, Media General, which included its Media General Broadcast Group comprising three television stations at that time, as well as its cable systems in various areas was sold off to a group led by The Giant Group, a firm owned by

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, which purchased a stake for $103.8 million, with backing also held by television production company

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. In 1996, Media General acquired Park Acquisitions, the holding company for Park Communications, formerly owned by the media entrepreneur Roy H. Park. In 1999, Media General bought Spartanburg-based

Spartan Communications Spartan Communications, Inc. was a company based in Spartanburg, South Carolina, that owned WSPA-TV as the city's flagship station from 1956 to 2000 when Spartan merged with Media General of Richmond, VA. In 1984, Spartan bought WBTW and KIMT-TV ...

, which increased Media General's station portfolio from 14 to 27. Four NBC-owned stations in smaller markets were put up for sale on January 9, 2006. On April 6,

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and Media General announced that the latter would purchase the four NBC O&O's as part of a $600 million four-station deal between the two companies.

Divestment of properties in the late 2000s

On July 28, 2006, Media General announced that they would sell KWCH-TV and its satellites to a Schurz Communications-affiliated company Sunflower Broadcasting for $73 million. On August 2, 2006, Media General announced that it would sell

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and

KIMT KIMT (channel 3) is a television station licensed to Mason City, Iowa, United States, serving North Central Iowa and Southeast Minnesota as an affiliate of CBS and MyNetworkTV. Owned by Allen Media Group, the station maintains studios on North ...

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for $35 million; the sale was finalized on October 12, 2006. Between 2006 and 2008, Morris Network, a division of

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bought out two station properties, WDEF and WTVQ, the former's price for WDEF cost $22 million, and the latter's price for WTVQ-TV cost $16.5 million, totaling up a $38.5 million budget for the combined two stations. On October 29, 2007, Media General announced that the company was exploring the sale of

WCWJ WCWJ (channel 17) is a television station in Jacksonville, Florida, United States, affiliated with The CW. It is owned by Graham Media Group alongside independent station WJXT (channel 4). The two stations share studios at 4 Broadcast Place on t ...

KALB-TV KALB-TV (channel 5) is a television station in Alexandria, Louisiana, United States, affiliated with NBC, CBS and The CW Plus. Owned by Gray Media, the station maintains studios on Washington Street in downtown Alexandria, and its transmitte ...

WMBB WMBB (channel 13) is a television station in Panama City, Florida, United States, affiliated with ABC. Its second digital subchannel serves as an owned-and-operated station of The CW (via The CW Plus). Owned by Nexstar Media Group, the station ...

, and

WNEG-TV WGTA (channel 32) is a television station licensed to Toccoa, Georgia, United States, serving much of the Northeast Georgia, northeastern portion of the state. The station is owned by Marquee Broadcasting, and has studios on Big A Road in Toccoa ...

. On March 14, 2008, the company reached an agreement to sell KALB and WMBB to

Hoak Media Hoak Media Corporation was a broadcast media company based in Dallas, Texas. Hoak once owned eighteen television stations (including satellites), all in medium and small-markets, mostly in the Great Plains states and Colorado. Hoak Media was e ...

. The deal was closed on July 16. On June 25, 2008, Media General announced the sale of WNEG-TV to the

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. On January 28, 2009,

announced that it had reached an agreement to purchase WCWJ. The deal was finalized on May 1, 2009.

2010s: Expansions, mergers with Young Broadcasting and LIN Media

On June 6, 2013,

announced that it would merge with Media General. On November 8, the FCC approved the merger. The merger closed on November 12. Following the merger, the new company was owned 67.5 percent by Young shareholders and 32.5 percent by Media General shareholders. The combined company owned 30 stations, reaching 14% of the United States. and continued to operate as Media General. Headquarters would remain in

, however, for the first time in over a century, the Bryan Family would not have a

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in the company. On March 21, 2014, Media General and

announced that the two companies would merge. The deal, worth an estimated $1.6 billion, would create an entity of 71 stations with a combined reach of 24% of U.S. television households. 45 Media General staff members were laid off; CEO George Mahoney stepped down in favor of his LIN counterpart Vincent Sadusky. In order to comply with FCC ownership rules as well as planned changes to rules regarding same-market television stations which would prohibit future joint sales agreements, some of the stations would be sold to several other companies in five markets (

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, Green Bay, Mobile,

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and

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) where both groups already own stations. On August 20, 2014, Media General and LIN Media announced several sales. Media General sold

WJAR WJAR (channel 10) is a television station in Providence, Rhode Island, United States, affiliated with NBC. Owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, the station has studios on Kenney Drive in Cranston, Rhode Island (shared with Telemundo owned-and-op ...

WLUK WLUK-TV (channel 11) is a television station in Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside Suring-licensed CW affiliate WCWF (channel 14). The two stations share s ...

WTGS WTGS (channel 28) is a television station licensed to Hardeeville, South Carolina, United States, serving as the Fox affiliate for the Savannah, Georgia, area. Owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, WTGS maintains transmitter facilities on Fort A ...

and

WCWF WCWF (channel 14) is a television station licensed to Suring, Wisconsin, United States, serving the Green Bay, Wisconsin, Green Bay area as an affiliate of The CW. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox ...

to the

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in exchange for Sinclair's KXRM, KXTU,

WHTM WHTM-TV (channel 27) is a television station licensed to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States, serving the Susquehanna Valley region as an affiliate of ABC. Owned by Nexstar Media Group, the station maintains studios on North 6th Street i ...

and

WTTA WTTA (channel 38) is a television station licensed to St. Petersburg, Florida, United States, serving as the Tampa Bay area's local outlet for The CW. It is owned and operated by The CW's majority owner, Nexstar Media Group, alongside Tampa-l ...

. Although the WHTM sale was discussed two months earlier, it was completed in September 2014, the rest of the transactions would not come into effect until the deal was completed.

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acquired

WVTM WVTM-TV (channel 13) is a television station in Birmingham, Alabama, United States, affiliated with NBC. Owned by Hearst Television, the station maintains studios and transmitter facilities atop Red Mountain, between Vulcan Trail and Valley V ...

and WJCL, and

Meredith Corporation Meredith Corporation was an American media conglomerate based in Des Moines, Iowa, that owned newspapers, magazines, television stations, and websites. Its publications had a readership of more than 120 million and paid circulation of more than ...

acquired

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. On October 6, the two companies' shareholders approved the deal, and the FCC approved the deal on December 12. The merger was completed on December 19. A condition of the deal requires Media General to end the joint sales and shared services agreements it has with stations in

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, and

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, due to tighter scrutiny such deals are getting by the FCC. Media General received a two-year waiver in those markets to end the JSAs and SSAs. On July 14, 2015, Media General pulled its stations off of

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systems across the

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due to a

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over

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fees. This carriage dispute saw Media General stations disappear from Mediacom lineups in 14 television markets across the United States and even three of the

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affiliates owned by Media General were lost to Mediacom subscribers in

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, and

just before the start of the

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. On July 30, 2015, Mediacom and Media General reached a new agreement, thereby restoring Media General owned stations to Mediacom subscribers in the affected areas. On July 13, 2016, the FCC issued a $700,000 fine against Media General for using a shared services agreement with WAGT to prevent its new owner

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from divesting it in the spectrum incentive auction.

Aborted merger with Meredith; acquisition by Nexstar

On September 8, 2015, it was announced that Media General would acquire Meredith Corporation in a cash and stock deal valued at $2.4 billion. Pending regulatory and shareholder approval, the deal was expected to be consummated in June 2016. The combined company was to be known as Meredith Media General, and become the third-largest owner of television stations in the United States—serving an estimated 30% of households. In order to comply with FCC regulations, some stations would have been sold to other companies in six markets where both groups already own stations (Greenville-Spartanburg, Hartford-New Haven, Mobile, Nashville, Portland (OR) and Springfield (MA)). Media General shareholders would have controlled 65% of the company, with Meredith shareholders holding 35%. On September 28, it was revealed that Nexstar Broadcasting Group had made an unsolicited cash-and-stock offer for Media General, valued at $14.50 per-share. Following the announcement, Media General shareholders

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(7% stake) and Starboard Capital (4.5% stake) opposed the Meredith merger in favor of selling to Nexstar. On October 6, 2015, the ''

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'' speculated that the deal had been called off, believing that the deal was unlikely to receive further shareholder support due to these objections. Both companies have denied that this was the case, and reported that other major shareholders were backing the merger. Media General hired additional firms to evaluate the Nexstar bid. On November 16, Media General rejected the offer but agreed to negotiate after concluding its merger with Meredith. On January 27, 2016, Media General announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Nexstar in a deal valued at $17.14 per-share, valuing the company at $4.6 billion plus the assumption of $2.3 billion debt. The combined company will be known as Nexstar Media Group, and own 171 stations, serving an estimated 39% of households. The company will pay Meredith a termination fee of $60 million, and give Meredith right of first refusal to acquire any broadcast or digital properties that may be divested during the merger (a clause that Meredith did not exercise). The deal also includes

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for Media General shareholders if it sells spectrum from its stations during the FCC's spectrum incentive auction. The transaction was approved on January 11, 2017, with the sale consummated six days later, on January 17.

Former assets

Newspapers

On May 17, 2012, it was announced that investment company

would be acquiring Media General's newspaper division (excluding ''

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''). The newspapers were planned to be merged into Berkshire Hathaway's World Media Enterprises division, a sister company of its other newspaper holdings under the ''

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''. The deal closed June 25, 2012. Media General's chairman and former CEO, J. Stewart Bryan III said the company faced a choice: either sell its newspaper division or file for bankruptcy protection. The latter, he said, was "unacceptable." At the end of 2011, Media General had $658 million in debt. In October 2012, ''The Tampa Tribune'' and its associated print and digital products were acquired by Tampa Media Group, Inc., a new company formed by Revolution Capital Group.

Major newspapers

*''

'' *''

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Community newspapers

Alabama

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The Enterprise Ledger
*

Opelika-Auburn News The ''Opelika-Auburn News'' is a daily newspaper in Alabama, serving Opelika, Auburn, and the communities surrounding Lee County. The newspaper serves to report local, weather, sports, and entertainment news within the areas. History The ne ...

The Eufaula TribuneThe Corner News

Florida

*(Brooksville
Hernando Today
(associated with ''The Tampa Tribune'') *(Sebring) Highlands Today ''(associated with ''The Tampa Tribune'')
Jackson County Floridan
(Marianna) *''

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'' (Spanish-language weekly) *(New Port Richey
The Suncoast News
(associated with ''The Tampa Tribune'')

North Carolina

* The (Eden) ''Daily News'' *''

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'' * *The (Marion) '' McDowell News'' *The (Madison) ''Messenger'' *The (Morganton) ''News Herald'' *'' The Reidsville Review'' *'' Statesville Record & Landmark''

South Carolina

* ''The Morning News'' (Florence) Daily Newspaper for Florence and the Pee Dee Region *''The News and Post'' (Lake City) Weekly *''The Marion Star'' (Marion) Weekly *''The Weekly Observer'' (Hemingway) Weekly *''The Hartsville Messenger'' Weekly

Virginia

*''Amherst New Era-Progress'' *''Powhatan Today'' *''Midlothian Exchange'' *''Mechanicsville Local'' *''Goochland Gazette'' *''

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'' *''

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'' *The (Charlottesville) ''Daily Progress'' *''

Danville Register & Bee The ''Danville Register & Bee'' is a daily newspaper serving Danville, Virginia, United States. It is owned by Lee Enterprises Lee Enterprises, Inc. is a publicly traded American media company. It publishes 72 daily newspapers in 25 states, an ...

'' *''Nelson County Times'' *''

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'' (Lynchburg) * The (Waynesboro) ''News Virginian'' *''

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'' (Manassas) ''(defunct)'' *''Richlands News-Press/Clinch Valley News'' *''

'' (defunct) *''Smyth News and Messenger'' (Marion) *
The Wytheville Enterprise
' *''Washington County News'' (Abingdon) *''Greene County Record'' *''Madison County Eagle'' *'' Orange County Review''

Former stations

* Stations are arranged in alphabetical order by state and

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. * Two boldface asterisks appearing following a station's call letters (**) indicate a station built and signed on by Media General.

Other assets

* Atlee Park * Blockdot * Boxerjam Media * BiteSizeTV * ''

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'', a daily syndicated entertainment news program distributed by Media General stations, along with

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under a traditional syndication arrangement. * LIN Digital

References

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