SagamoreHill Broadcasting LLC is a privately held American

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that owns 13 television stations based in the Great Lakes and southern

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regions. The company is a joint venture of the investment firm Duff Ackerman & Goodrich of

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and former

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and

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executive Louis Wall (who is also CEO of the group). The company is headquartered in

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History

The company was founded in 2003. In 2005, SagamoreHill Broadcasting acquired

KXLT-TV KXLT-TV (channel 47) is a television station licensed to Rochester, Minnesota, United States, serving as the Fox affiliate for Southeast Minnesota and Northern Iowa. It is owned by Gray Media alongside dual NBC/ CW+ affiliate KTTC (channel 10). ...

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as a result of Quincy Newspapers' purchase of Shockley Communications (the former owner of KXLT-TV), and Quincy could not buy KXLT outright due to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules governing duopolies. In 2007, SagamoreHill Broadcasting acquired

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from

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. On July 23, 2008, SagamoreHill Broadcasting acquired the license of KZTV in

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to comply with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules; it was originally sold by Eagle Creek Broadcasting (KZTV's former owner) to Cordillera Communications. However, the application to sell the station was opposed by McKinnon Broadcasting, then-owner of

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. This objection held up the deal until August 24, 2009, when Eagle Creek announced a shared services agreement with KRIS-TV. Cordillera acquired all station assets with Eagle Creek owning KZTV's broadcast license. SagamoreHill finally assumed ownership of the KZTV license on May 19, 2010. In 2017, the company acquired the license assets of Surtsey Media/Saga Communications' television clusters in Joplin, Missouri, including

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, and Victoria, Texas, including

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. SagamoreHill became the owner of

KFJX KFJX (channel 14) is a television station licensed to Pittsburg, Kansas, United States, serving the Joplin, Missouri–Pittsburg, Kansas market as an affiliate of Fox and The CW Plus. It is owned by SagamoreHill Broadcasting, which maintains ...

in Joplin, Missouri, and

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in Victoria, Texas; both stations are operated by

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. On May 3, 2023, the company acquired WPXO-LD for $405,000, due to the previous owner, Caribevision Station Group, being in debt. The deal was finalized in late 2023, and the station has since converted from

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to a JTV affiliate.

Stations

Current

Former

References

External links

Official Website
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