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Spartan Communications

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Founder
  
Walter J. Brown

Defunct
  
2000

Fate
  
Acquired by Media General

Successor
  
Media General Nexstar Media Group

Founded
  
1940 (as Spartanburg Advertising Company 1947 (as Spartan Radiocasting)

Headquarters
  
Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States

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

Former Spartan-owned stations

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

References

Spartan Communications Wikipedia