Gray Media said it’s buying WLTZ, the NBC affiliate for the Columbus, Georgia, market (DMA 127) and KJTV, the Fox affiliate for the Lubbock, Texas, market (DMA 140) from Sagamore Hill Broadcasting.
The station group said it has provided back-office services to both stations through its Columbus ABC affiliate WTVM and its Lubbock NBC affiliate KCBD for several years.
Gray said it will request waivers of the FCC’s current local broadcast ownership rule under the same “failing station” waiver standard through which the FCC has authorized similar combinations over the past 25 years, including earlier this year in connection with Gray’s acquisition from SagamoreHill Broadcasting of KXLT, the Fox affiliated television station in the Rochester, Minnesota market…