New Vision Television was a broadcast company based in Los Angeles, California . Throughout its two decade plus history, the company owned or managed over 20 television stations in large and medium-sized markets.
18-873: Formed by Jason Elkin in 1993 in Atlanta, GA, New Vision Television began its ownership in local television by acquiring the assets of News-Press & Gazette Company in December 1993 for $ 110 million. The deal included television stations in Jackson, MS ( WJTV , including semi-satellite WHLT in Hattiesburg); Wilmington, NC ( WECT ), Savannah, GA ( WSAV-TV ), Sioux Falls, SD ( KSFY and satellites KABY and KPRY), and Tucson, Arizona ( KOLD ). New Vision I sold its assets to Bert Ellis and Ellis Communications in 1995 for $ 230 million. (Most of them initially went to Raycom Media , but some had to be traded to Media General and KSFY
36-904: A shared services agreement to operate Youngstown ABC affiliate WYTV for owner Parkin Broadcasting (later named PBC Broadcasting). New Vision subsequently launched the My Valley branding for several services offered by WKBN, WYFX, and WYTV. In September 2007, New Vision acquired Savannah, Georgia ABC affiliate WJCL-TV from Piedmont Television ; in November, it acquired all of the assets of Montecito Broadcasting : KOIN-TV in Portland, Oregon ; KHON-TV in Honolulu, Hawaii and satellites; KSNW-TV in Wichita, Kansas and satellites; and (in
54-670: A morning newspaper; however, the family kept the "Gazette" and "G" in the company name. The Bradley family expanded the focus by forming local cable television operator St. Joseph Cablevision in 1965. News-Press & Gazette expanded into broadcast television with the 1976 with purchase of WSAV-TV in Savannah, Georgia. They would later acquire KAAL-TV in Austin, Minnesota in 1980; WJTV in Jackson, Mississippi in 1983; KSFY in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in 1985 (and selling off KAAL-TV in
72-722: A related stock transaction) KSNT-TV in Topeka, Kansas . In 2008, New Vision bought KTMJ-CA and repeaters in Topeka (co-managed with KSNT) and announced plans to convert KBNZ-LD in Bend, Oregon (which has since been sold) from a translator of KOIN to its own station. In 2009, New Vision Television received a $ 28 million line of credit during its bankruptcy proceedings. New Vision, doing business as NV Broadcasting, filed for Chapter 11 after reaching an agreement with first- and second-lien debt holders that converts $ 400 million in debt to equity in
90-810: Is a media company based in St. Joseph, Missouri , wholly owned and operated by the Bradley family. It is presided by Brian Bradley and David R. Bradley, with Hank Bradley (retired), Eric Bradley, and Kit Bradley serving on its board of directors. All are descendants of family patriarch Henry D. Bradley and his son, David Bradley Sr. News-Press & Gazette's properties include daily and weekly newspapers in Missouri and Kansas , radio and television stations in California , Idaho , Oregon , Colorado , Arizona , Missouri and Texas . The NPG group generally concentrates on
108-593: The Fox Broadcasting Company (with subchannel-only affiliations with The CW and Telemundo ). The station was created using the K26LV-D station license (which it acquired, along with K16KF-D , from Sunrise, Florida -based DTV America 1, LLC on March 14 of that year); it launched on June 2, 2012, as KNPN-LD . On July 25, 2012, NPG announced an agreement to purchase ABC affiliate KMIZ and Fox affiliate, KQFX-LD from JW Broadcasting. The deal
126-661: The Kansas City and St. Joseph areas for their newspapers, and the western United States for their broadcasting properties. Many of News-Press & Gazette's television properties are top rated stations in their respective market. The company traces it roots back to the St. Joseph Gazette which began publishing in 1845. The paper chronicled much of travel into the Old West along the Oregon Trail and California Trail . It
144-930: The Miami County Republic, the Atchison Globe and the Hiawatha World; and two papers based in Liberty, Missouri: the Courier-Tribune and the Gladstone Dispatch . Stations are arranged alphabetically by state and by city of license . In all, NPG owns or operates 28 television properties, nearly all in the western United States. NPG owned cable systems under the name NPG Cable, Inc. . On November 29, 2010, NPG announced that it had agreed to sell all of its cable systems to Suddenlink Communications for $ 350 million;
162-500: The Bradley family sold the cable division, which by that time expanded its service area to parts of California and Arizona under the name NPG Cable, to Suddenlink Communications . On March 19, 2012, News-Press & Gazette announced it would establish a low-power television station in St. Joseph that would serve as the company's television flagship and the first broadcast station that the company built and signed on; it would be an affiliate of
180-509: The PBC stations are being transferred to Vaughan Media as part of the deal). The FCC approved the deal on October 2, 2012, and was completed on October 12, 2012. LIN was itself absorbed by Media General in late 2014; Media General would then be absorbed to Nexstar Media Group in 2017. Stations are arranged in alphabetical order by state and city of license . News-Press %26 Gazette Company The News-Press & Gazette Company ( NPG )
198-526: The acquisition was closed on April 1, 2011. NPG Cable systems operated in the following communities: Vaughan Media Vaughan Media, LLC is a company which owns the broadcast licenses of several stations operated by Nexstar Media Group . The company was founded in 2011 when it made its first acquisition, WBDT , from ACME Communications . LIN Media , the owner of WDTN , could not legally own both WDTN and WBDT. It sold off certain assets, including WBDT's broadcast license, to Vaughan Media. The sale
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#1732776105871216-434: The reorganized company. On May 7, 2012, LIN Media acquired the 13 television stations owned by New Vision Television. The sale provided a significant gain in equity for New Vision’s investors. The sales agreement included operational control of the three PBC Broadcasting-owned stations (KTKA, WTGS and WYTV) involved in shared service agreements with New Vision-owned stations in Topeka, Savannah and Youngstown (the licenses of
234-1110: The same year); WECT in Wilmington, North Carolina; signing on WJTV satellite station WHLT , Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 1987; and acquiring KOLD-TV Tucson, Arizona in 1989. In 1993 NPG would sell off their first group of stations to other companies, but would rebuild its TV portfolio starting with KVIA-TV in El Paso, Texas . This expansion continued into the 2000s with the launch of a 24-hour cable-only news channel for St. Joseph, News-Press NOW , along with News-Press & Gazette's acquisition of several full-power and low-power television stations; including KESQ-TV Palm Springs, California (and radio stations KESQ (AM) and KUNA-FM ); KIFI-TV Idaho Falls, Idaho; KRDO-TV Colorado Springs, Colorado (and radio stations KRDO (AM) and KRDO-FM ); KTVZ in Bend, Oregon ; KECY-TV in El Centro, California ; KEYT-TV Santa Barbara, California; and KION-TV Monterey - Salinas, California. In 2011,
252-756: The time to Cordillera Communications , Barrington Broadcasting , and Granite Broadcasting . New Vision III was a restart of the company with new stations. On August 1, 2006, New Vision announced an agreement to acquire CBS affiliates WIAT in Birmingham , Alabama and KIMT in Mason City , Iowa from Media General for $ 35 million. The acquisition was finalized on October 12 of that year. On November 15, New Vision announced an agreement to acquire CBS affiliate WKBN-TV and sister Fox affiliate WYFX-LP in Youngstown, Ohio for undisclosed terms, and signed
270-414: Was consummated on May 20, 2011, at which point LIN took control of the station via a shared services agreement with WDTN. In 2012, the company acquired television stations owned by PBC Broadcasting which were operated by New Vision Television . In August 2014, it was announced that Sinclair Broadcast Group would take over the shared services agreement to operate WTGS as well as rights to acquire
288-681: Was consummated on November 1. In October 2020, NPG sold the Daily Star-Journal to Phillips Media Group, owner of the Sedalia Democrat . NPG had owned the paper since 2007 and after the sale its name was changed to the Warrensburg Star-Journal . In August 2023, NPG sold its commercial printing facility in St. Joseph, Missouri, and all of its newspapers (excluding the St. Joseph News-Press ) to CherryRoad Media . The sale included three Kansas papers:
306-724: Was sold to Hoak Media .) New Vision Television CEO Jason Elkin and COO John Heinen started a new company, New Vision Television II, that capitalized with $ 200 million and owned a maximum of four network affiliates. (Elkin had bought the stations from NPG that were sold to Ellis.) New Vision II owned KSBY in Santa Barbara, California ; KVII-TV in Amarillo, Texas ; WISE-TV in Fort Wayne, Indiana ; and KDLH in Duluth, Minnesota . In 2005, New Vision II sold all of its stations at
324-521: Was the only newspaper that was sent west on the first ride of the Pony Express . The Gazette eventually merged with the News-Press by publisher Charles M. Palmer . When Palmer died in 1949, Henry D. Bradley was co-publisher of both papers starting in 1939 and bought them outright in 1951. The Gazette ceased publication in 1988 when its sister, the afternoon News-Press , transitioned into
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