Marquee Broadcasting, Inc. is an American broadcasting company that owns several television stations in the United States.
History Marquee began in 2013 when its owners, Brian and Patricia Lane, announced its intent to acquire WMDT and its repeater, WEVD-LP for $9 million.
The company's next acquisition came in 2015 when it closed its acquisition of WUGA-TV from the University of Georgia for $2.5 million. Following the acquisition, the station's primary affiliation changed to Heroes & Icons and changed its callsign to WGTA.
In May 2016, Nexstar Broadcasting Group announced its sale of KREG-TV to Marquee Broadcasting.
On April 5, 2017, Max Media announced that it entered an agreement to sell NBC affiliate WNKY in Bowling Green, Kentucky to Marquee.Application For Consent To Assignment Of Broadcast Station Construction Permit Or License. CDBS Public Access, Federal Communications Commission, Retrieved 7 April 2017
On June 18, 2018, Marquee agreed to purchase WSST-TV in Cordele, Georgia from Sunbelt-South Communications, Ltd. The sale is expected to be approved by the FCC and close by the end of Fall 2018. On August 16, 2018, Gray Television announced that it would sell WSWG, the CBS affiliate for Albany, Georgia, to Marquee; Marquee intends to combine WSST and WSWG's operations.
On April 20, 2022, it was announced that Southeastern Ohio Broadcasting Corporation will sell their TV station WHIZ-TV, along with radio stations WHIZ, WHIZ-FM, and WZVL to Marquee Broadcasting for an undisclosed amount. The sale was completed on July 15.
In October and November, 2022, Marquee purchased WTLW in Lima, Ohio, a religious and local sports station, from American Christian Television Services (ACTS) and changed its call sign to WLMA. ACTS retained ownership of a low-powered translator and operates WLMA via a local marketing agreement.
On February 1, 2024, it was announced that Marquee and Gray Television had reached agreements to swap television stations in Wyoming/Nebraska and Utah. As part of the swap Marquee will end up with KCWY-DT in Casper, Wyoming, KGWN-TV in Cheyenne, Wyoming, KSTF in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, and KNEP in Sidney, Nebraska. At the same time Gray will get Marquee’s FCC permit authorizing construction of new and currently unbuilt TV station KCBU in Salt Lake City.
On January 16, 2025, the company announced that they would purchase 4 stations from Imagicomm Communications, KIEM-TV, KVIQ-LD in Eureka, California, and KFBI-LD, KMVU-DT in Medford, Oregon. This comes after earlier the same week that Imagicomm would be selling 12 of its 18 stations to other companies. On August 19, 2025, Marquee announced their acquisitions of five radio stations currently owned by Bicoastal Media Medford, KMED-FM, KRWQ, KLDZ, KIFS.
Current stations Television Media market State Station Purchased Affiliation Notes Eureka California KIEM-TV 2025 KVIQ-LD 2025 CBS Albany Georgia WFXL 2024 Fox WSST-TV 2018 MyNetworkTV WSWG 2019 CBS Toccoa WGTA 2015 MeTV Caldwell–Boise Idaho KNIN-TV 2023 Fox Bowling Green Kentucky WNKY 2017 WNKY-LD 2023 WDNZ-LD 2023 Salisbury Maryland WMDT 2013 WGDV-LD 2016 WeatherNation TV Lima Ohio WLMA 2025 Religious Independent Zanesville WHIZ-TV 2022 Medford Oregon KMVU-DT 2025 KFBI-LD 2025 Nashville Tennessee WNSH-LD 2021 The Country Network Parkersburg West Virginia WVMY-LD 2020 Independent Casper Wyoming KCWY-DT 2024 Cheyenne KGWN-TV 2024 KNEP 2024 KSTF 2024 Sheridan KSWY 2025 Silent
Radio AM station FM station Media market State Station Purchased Current format Zanesville Ohio WHIZ 2022 Full-service radio WHIZ-FM 2022 Contemporary hit radio WZVL 2022 Country music
Former stations Media market State Station Purchased Sold Notes Glenwood Springs Colorado KREG-TV 2017 2020 Dover Delaware WEVD-LD 2013 2020 Macon Georgia WPGA-TV 2019 2023 WPGA-LD 2019 2023
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