Mission Broadcasting


Mission Broadcasting, Inc. is a television station group that owns 20 television stations in 17 markets in the United States. The group's Chair is Nancie Smith, the widow of David S. Smith, who founded the company in 1996. All of Mission's stations are located in markets where the Nexstar Media Group also owns a station, and are managed by Nexstar through shared services and local marketing agreementseffectively creating duopolies between the top two stations in a market or in markets with too few stations or unique station owners to legally allow duopolies. The company moved their headquarters from Westlake, Ohio to Wichita Falls, Texas in 2018.

History

On December 19, 2013, Mission Broadcasting announced it was acquiring KFQX for $4 million. The sale was approved on February 27, 2017 and finalized on March 31.
On March 30, 2020, Mission agreed to acquire certain assets of KMSS, KPEJ, and KLJB from Marshall Broadcasting Group for $49 million.
On July 13, 2020, Nexstar Media Group transferred its option to purchase WPIX from E.W. Scripps Company to Mission Broadcasting. Mission exercised the option and announced it was acquiring WPIX for $75 million.

Television stations

Stations are arranged alphabetically by state and by city of license.
City of License / MarketStationChannel
TV 		Owned sinceCurrent affiliationNexstar operator
Little RockKLRT-TV16 2013Fox
The CW 		KARK-TV
KARZ-TV
Little RockKASN38 2013The CWKARK-TV
KARZ-TV
Grand JunctionKFQX4 2017Fox
CBS 		KREX-TV
KGJT-CD
RockfordWTVO17 2004ABC
MyNetworkTV 		WQRF-TV
EvansvilleWTVW7 2011The CWWEHT
Terre HauteWAWV-TV38 2003ABCWTWO
Monroe - El DoradoKTVE10 2007NBC
Fox 		KARD
Joplin - PittsburgKODE-TV12 2002ABCKSNF
Springfield - BransonKOLR10 2003CBSKOZL-TV
KRBK
Hardin - BillingsKHMT4 2004FoxKSVI
Utica - RomeWUTR20 2004ABC
MyNetworkTV 		WFXV
WPNY-LP
ErieWFXP66 1998FoxWJET-TV
Wilkes-Barre - ScrantonWYOU22 1998CBSWBRE-TV
Abilene - SweetwaterKRBC-TV9 2003NBCKTAB-TV
AmarilloKCIT14 1999FoxKAMR-TV
AmarilloKCPN-LP33 1999MyNetworkTVKAMR-TV
LubbockKAMC28 2003ABCKLBK-TV
San AngeloKSAN-TV3 2003NBCKLST
Wichita Falls - LawtonKJTL18 1999FoxKFDX-TV
Wichita Falls - LawtonKJBO-LP35 1999MyNetworkTVKFDX-TV
Burlington - PlattsburghWVNY22 2013ABCWFFF-TV