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Industry
  
Media

Founder
  
Cy Bahakel

Products
  
Television Radio

Type of business
  
Private

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Headquarters
  
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Founded
  
1953, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Bahakel Communications, Ltd. is an American communications company based in Charlotte, North Carolina, that is wholly owned and operated by the Bahakel family. The company was founded by Cy Bahakel in 1953, who ran it until his death on April 20, 2006 at the age of 87.

Bahakel's broadcasting properties include fourteen radio and television stations in Alabama, Colorado, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. The group's properties are primarily concentrated on the Southern United States for its television stations, and the Colorado Springs and Chattanooga areas for their radio properties.

Major assets

Notes:

1) Two boldface asterisks appearing following a station's call letters (**) indicate a station that was built and signed-on by Bahakel Communications; 2) Two boldface crosses appearing following a station's call letters (††) indicate a station that is owned by SagamoreHill Broadcasting and operated by Bahakel via shared services agreement (SSA).

References

Bahakel Communications Wikipedia
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