LAFAYETTE, La. — Federal regulators have given the final green light for one company to own two of Lafayette’s three major television stations, resetting the Acadiana broadcast landscape for the first time in nearly a decade.
According to The Advocate, the Federal Communications Commission has cleared the way for Atlanta-based Gray Media to own both KATC and KADN. Two separate transactions, finalized weeks apart, handed Gray the ABC, NBC, and Fox affiliates serving the Lafayette market. The NBC piece comes through KLAF, the low-power sister station packaged with KADN.
That leaves KLFY, the CBS affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group, as the only major Acadiana station outside Gray’s umbrella. Nexstar itself just absorbed Tegna in a $6.2 billion national deal that closed in March.
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