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Former type
  
Public

Industry
  
Television, Newspapers

Defunct
  
1997 (1997)

Founded
  
1987

Traded as
  
NYSE: HTG

Founder
  
James M. Hoak, Jr.

Headquarters
  
Dallas

Ceased operations
  
1997

Predecessor
  
Heritage Communications

Successors
  
Sinclair Broadcast Group, News Corporation

Heritage Media Corporation (NYSE: HTG) was a broadcast media company which owned newspapers, television stations, and radio stations across the United States. It was based in Dallas, Texas from 1987 to 1997.

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Heritage media film investments


Ownership

It was founded by James M. Hoak, Jr. in 1987. Heritage Media owned direct marketing services company Actmedia and DIMAC Marketing Corporation, while the company owned 7 television stations and 24 radio stations within the United States.

In 1997, News Corporation acquired Heritage Media. The most of the company's television and radio stations were sold to Sinclair Broadcast Group, while KOKH was sold to Sullivan Broadcasting, and KDLT/KDLV was later sold to Red River Broadcasting.

Television stations

Stations are arranged alphabetically by state and by city of license.

Notes:

  • 1 WFGX and WFFF-TV were operated by Heritage Media under local marketing agreements.
  • 2 The KEVN intellectual unit, including its use of virtual channel 7 and its Fox affiliation, was transferred by Gray Television to a low-power license, KEVN-LD, in 2016.
  • 3 KDLT operated on channel 5 in Mitchell, South Dakota while under Heritage Media ownership. In 1998, Red River Broadcasting moved KDLT-TV to channel 46 in Sioux Falls, with the channel 5 license in Mitchell repurposed as satellite station KDLV-TV.

    • References

    Heritage Media Wikipedia
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