Family Group Broadcasting
Family Group Broadcasting, L.P. was a Delaware-incorporated, Florida-based television and radio broadcasting company. A small company, based in and around Tampa Bay, the company operated from the early 1980s to about 1997. Throughout its history, it owned and/or operated several different radio and television stations – all of its television stations independents, on the UHF dial east of the Mississippi River. Also, the company operated under the names Family Broadcasting Company, Inc., Family Group Entertainment and Family Group Ltd. III.
Former Stations
Television Stations
- 1 Stations built and/or signed-on by Family Group Broadcasting.
- 2 Family Group Broadcasting had a 50 percent stake in the station. Also, Heritage Media, then-owners of ABC affiliate WEAR-TV, took control of the station under a Local marketing agreement beginning in 1995 and lasting until 1997, when both stations and the rest of Heritage Media's television stations division were acquired by and absorbed into Sinclair Broadcast Group.
- 3 WLKT-TV was partially owned by Family Group Broadcasting in a "50–50" joint venture with a non-profit company, Way of the Cross, Inc. and was founded in 1983. However, the station didn't sign-on until 1988. Unfortunately, due to low viewership, questionable reception and not being able to find a buyer, the two companies took the station off the air less than a year later and subsequently returned the license to the Federal Communications Commission. In 1999, a new low-power station took to the air on channel 62, WBLU-LP, but was taken off the air by Daystar in 2009.
| DMA Rank | Market | Station PSIP | Years Owned | Sold to | Today |
| 12 | Tampa – St. Petersburg, FL | WFTS-TV 28 | 1981–19841 | Capital Cities Communications | ABC network affiliate owned and operated by The E.W. Scripps Company |
| 53 | Fort Myers – Naples – Cape Coral, FL | WFTX-TV 36 | 1985–1986 | Wabash Valley Broadcasting | Fox network affiliate owned and operated by The E.W. Scripps Company |
| 57 | Mobile, AL – Pensacola – Fort Walton Beach, FL | WFGX 35 | 1987–19971 2 | Sinclair Broadcast Group | Still owned and operated by Sinclair as a MyNetworkTV affiliate |
| 64 | Lexington – Fayette, KY | WLKT-TV 62 | 1983–19893 | Taken off the air | Defunct in 1989, licensed cancelled and returned to the FCC |
| 67 | Green Bay – Appleton, WI | WGBA-TV 26 | 1985–1991 | Aries Telecommunications | NBC network affiliate owned and operated by The E.W. Scripps Company |
| 69 | Roanoke – Lynchburg, VA | WVFT 27 | 1986–1991 | Jefferson-Pilot Communications | Fox network affiliate WFXR owned and operated by Nexstar Media Group |
| 129 | La Crosse – Eau Claire, WI | WLAX 25 | 1986–19911 | Aries Telecommunications | Fox network affiliate owned and operated by Nexstar Media Group |
| 138 | Rockford, IL | WQRF-TV 39 | 1986–1989 | Petracom Broadcasting | Fox network affiliate owned and operated by Nexstar Media Group |
| 149 | Panama City, FL | WFXD/WPGX 28 | 1988–1990 | Ashling Broadcasting Group | Fox network affiliate owned and operated by Lockwood Broadcast Group |
Radio Stations
- 1 The station today, operates as a simulcast of now-sister station, WANG 1490 AM, which in turn also operates a translator, W278CE on 103.5 FM.
- 2 As of May 2020, the station is temporarily off the air as repairs are ongoing to its transmitter. As a result, its sports radio format is currently on WAVK 97.7 FM in the meantime.
- 3 The station today, operates as a simulcast of now-sister station, WFKZ 103.1 FM.
AM Stations
| RMS Rank | Market | Station | Frequency | Today |
| 17 | Tampa – St. Petersburg, FL | WQBN | 1300 | Spanish Variety owned by Radio Tropical, Inc. |
| 143 | Biloxi – Gulfport – Pascagoula, MS | WVMI | 570 | Classic country as WTNI1 on 1640 owned by Telesouth Communications, Inc. |
| 148 | Beaumont – Port Arthur, TX | KAYC | 1450 | CBS Sports Radio affiliate KIKR owned by Cumulus Media |
| NR | Key West, FL | WKWF | 16002 | CBS Sports Radio and SB Nation Radio dual affiliate owned by Spottswood Partners II, LTD |