Bayou City Broadcasting


Bayou City Broadcasting, LLC is a broadcasting company founded in December 2007 and owned by DuJuan McCoy. The company is based in The Woodlands, Texas.

History

The company's first acquisition of stations occurred in January 2008, when it acquired several television stations in West Texas from Sage Broadcasting for $3 million, including Fox affiliates in Abilene and San Angelo. Bayou City briefly exited broadcasting when it sold those stations to Dallas-based London Broadcasting in September 2012.
The company re-entered the broadcasting business in 2015 when it acquired WEVV-TV in Evansville, Indiana. The station had been owned by Communications Corporation of America, which Nexstar Broadcasting Group was in the midst of purchasing. However, Nexstar was forced to divest the station since it already owned WTVW and WEHT, and Bayou City emerged as the successful buyer.
On March 16, 2016, Bayou City Broadcasting announced it would purchase two more stations from Nexstar, KADN-TV of Lafayette, Louisiana and its sister station KLAF-LD. Nexstar was acquiring Media General, and planned to retain KLFY-TV—the area's long-time CBS affiliate, instead.
On April 8, 2019, it was announced that DuJuan McCoy would acquire two more Nexstar stations—WISH-TV and WNDY-TV in Indianapolis—for $42.5 million, under the new company Circle City Broadcasting. Nexstar divested the stations in its subsequent purchase of Tribune Media, electing to retain Tribune's duopoly of CBS station WTTV and Fox station WXIN, rather than retain WISH. The following month, it was announced that Bayou City Broadcasting's stations would be sold to Entertainment Studios for $165 million.

Stations

Former Bayou City stations