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'{{Short description|Defunct American media company}} {{Infobox company |name=The Ackerley Group |logo=The Ackerley Group.svg |type=[[Public company|Public]] |traded_as=[[Television broadcasting|Broadcasting]] |industry=[[Mass media|Media]] |fate=Merged with [[IHeartMedia|Clear Channel Communications]] |successor=[[IHeartMedia|Clear Channel Communications]] |foundation={{Start date and age|1975}} |founder=[[Barry Ackerley]] |defunct={{End date and age|2002|6|14}} |location=[[Seattle]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]] |products=[[Television]] |}} The '''Ackerley Group''' was an American media company founded by businessman [[Barry Ackerley]] that owned and operated several radio stations in [[Seattle|Seattle, Washington]], as well as television stations across the United States (primarily in [[New York (state)|New York]] and [[California]], as well as [[KTVF|one in Fairbanks, Alaska]]). The company also owned the [[National Basketball Association|NBA]] [[Seattle SuperSonics]] and [[Women's National Basketball Association|WNBA]] [[Seattle Storm]] professional basketball teams. The Ackerley Group was sold to [[iHeartMedia|Clear Channel Communications]]<ref>[http://www.warc.com/News/TopNews.asp?ID=11575 FCC approves Clear Channel (now known as iHeartMedia) purchase of Ackerley Group]</ref> (now iHeartMedia) in 2002. Ackerley announced its sale to Clear Channel Communications on October 8, 2001;<ref name="spi-saletoccu">{{cite news |last1=Virgin |first1=Bill |title=Ackerley selling out |url=https://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/Ackerley-selling-out-1067955.php |access-date=March 14, 2023 |work=[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]] |date=October 8, 2001 |language=en}}</ref> the merger was completed on June 14, 2002.<ref name="sabj-ccumergercomplete">{{cite news |title=Clear Channel completes merger with Ackerley Group |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/stories/2002/06/10/daily41.html |access-date=March 14, 2023 |work=[[San Antonio Business Journal]] |date=June 14, 2002}}</ref> At the time of the closure of the transaction, the sale price was reported to be 38 times cashflow (approximately $1.1B USD), the highest ever sale valuation for a North American publicly traded media company in the history of the [[New York Stock Exchange|NYSE]]. The record setting high price tag was attributed to the overwhelming market monopoly position of the Ackerley Group's Out of Home Media (billboards) marketplace in the [[Washington (state)|Washington]], [[Oregon]], [[Massachusetts]] and South [[Florida]] media markets- all areas where Clear Channel was devoid of inventory. Barry Ackerley and his immediate family owned approximately 82% of the company stock at the time of the sale. ==Station list (incomplete)== Stations are arranged in alphabetical order by state and [[city of license]]. {| class="wikitable" |- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" ! [[City of license]] / [[Media market|Market]] ! Station ! Channel<br>[[Virtual channel|TV]] ([[Digital terrestrial television|RF]]) ! Years owned ! Current status |- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | [[Fairbanks, Alaska]] | '''[[KTVF]]''' | 11 (26) | 1999–2002 | '''[[NBC]]''' affiliate owned by [[Gray Television]] |- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | [[Bakersfield, California]] | '''[[KGET-TV]]''' | 17 (25) | 1983–2002 | '''NBC''' affiliate owned by [[Nexstar Media Group]] |- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | [[Eureka, California]] | '''KVIQ''' | 6 ({{small|later}} 17 (17)) | 1998–2002 | '''defunct''', ''Went dark in 2018,<ref>[https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/public/tv/draftCopy.html?displayType=html&appKey=25076f91633cf92d016340341e860153&id=25076f91633cf92d016340341e860153&goBack=N Suspension of Operations and Silent Authority of a DTV Station Application]. ''Licensing and Management System'', [[Federal Communications Commission]], Retrieved 23 September 2018</ref><ref>[https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/sta_det.pl?Facility_id=42640 Station Search Details - KJRW] ''CDBS Public Access'', [[Federal Communications Commission]], Retrieved 16 September 2018.</ref> license cancelled in 2020.<ref name="fcc-kjrwdefunct">{{cite web |last1=Kreisman |first1=Barbara A. |title=Re: Request for Reinstatement and Extension of License Under Section 312(g) |url=https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/enwiki/api/download/attachment/25076ff373865c0c01738fe042ac0005 |website=Licensing and Management System |publisher=[[Federal Communications Commission]] |accessdate=July 28, 2020 |format=PDF}}</ref>''<br>{{small|(Callsign changed to '''KJRW''' prior to the shutdown; intellectual unit and '''CBS''' programming<br>transferred to a Northwest Broadcasting-owned license and renamed [[KVIQ-LD]].<ref>[https://tvnewscheck.com/article/109346/redwood-television-closes-on-kiem-buy/ Redwood Television Closes On KIEM Buy], ''TVNewsCheck.com'', 4 December 2017, Retrieved 16 September 2018</ref>)}} |- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | [[Fresno, California]] | '''[[KGPE|KJEO/KGPE]]''' | 47 (34) | 2000–2002 | '''CBS''' affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group |- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | rowspan="2" | [[Salinas, California|Salinas]] - [[Monterey, California]] | '''[[KCBA]]''' | 35 (13) | 1986–2000 ¹ | '''[[The CW]]''' affiliate owned by Seal Rock Broadcasters, LLC<br>{{small|(Operated through an SSA by [[Entravision Communications]])}} |- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | '''[[KION-TV|KION]]''' | 46 (32) | 2000–2002 ² | '''CBS''' affiliate owned by [[News-Press & Gazette Company]] |- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | [[Santa Maria, California|Santa Maria]] - [[Santa Barbara, California|Santa Barbara]] -<br>[[San Luis Obispo, California]] | '''[[KCOY-TV]]''' | 12 (19) | 1999–2002 | '''[[Telemundo]]''' affiliate owned by VistaWest Media, LLC<br>{{small|(Operated through an SSA by News-Press & Gazette Company)}} |- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | [[Santa Rosa, California|Santa Rosa]] - [[San Francisco]] - [[Oakland, California]] | '''KFTY''' | 50 (32) | 1996–2002 | '''[[Azteca América]]''' [[owned and operated|owned-and-operated]] station (O&O), '''[[KEMO-TV]]''', owned by [[HC2 Holdings]] |- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | [[Colorado Springs, Colorado|Colorado Springs]] - [[Pueblo, Colorado]] | '''[[KKTV]]''' | 11 (49) | 1982–1999 | '''CBS''' affiliate owned by Gray Television |- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" |rowspan="2" | [[Binghamton, New York]] | '''[[WIVT]]''' | 34 (34) | 1998–2002 | '''[[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]''' affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group |- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | '''WBGH-LP/CA''' | 20 | 2000–2002 | '''NBC''' affiliate, '''[[WBGH-CD]]''', owned by Nexstar Media Group |- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | [[Elmira, New York]] | '''[[WETM-TV]]''' | 18 (18) | ³ | '''NBC''' affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group |- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | [[Rochester, New York]] | '''WOKR''' | 13 (13) | 1999–2002 | '''ABC''' affiliate, '''[[WHAM-TV]]''', owned by [[Deerfield Media]]<br>{{small|(Operated through an SSA by [[Sinclair Broadcast Group]])}} |- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | [[Syracuse, New York]] | '''WIXT-TV''' | 9 (17) | 1982–2002 | '''ABC''' affiliate, '''[[WSYR-TV]]''', owned by Nexstar Media Group |- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | [[Utica, New York]] | '''[[WUTR]]''' | 20 (30) | 1997–2002 | '''ABC''' affiliate owned by [[Mission Broadcasting]]<br>{{small|(Operated through an SSA by Nexstar Media Group)}} |- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | [[Watertown, New York]] | '''[[WWTI]]''' | 50 (21) | 2000–2002 | '''ABC''' affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group |- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | [[Eugene, Oregon|Eugene]] - [[Springfield, Oregon]] | '''[[KMTR]]''' | 16 (17) | 1999–2002 | '''NBC''' affiliate owned by Roberts Media, LLC<br>{{small|(Operated through an SSA by Sinclair Broadcast Group)}} |- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" | [[Bellingham, Washington]] -<br>[[Vancouver]], [[British Columbia]]<br>{{small|(Bellingham is nominally in the [[Seattle, Washington|Seattle]] market)}} | '''[[KVOS-TV]]''' | 12 (35) | 1985–2002 | [[Univision]] affiliate owned by [[Weigel Broadcasting]] |- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" |} '''Notes:''' *¹ Divested following purchase of KION, Ackerley continued to operate station after divestiture until the merger with [[iHeartMedia|Clear Channel]] in 2002. *² Operated by Ackerley from 1994 until purchased outright by Ackerley in 2000. *³ Ackerley never owned this station directly but did operate it through a [[Local marketing agreement|time brokerage agreement]] from 2000 until the merger with Clear Channel in 2002. ==Notes== {{Reflist|2}} [[Category:Defunct broadcasting companies of the United States]] [[Category:IHeartMedia]] [[Category:Defunct companies based in Seattle]] [[Category:Mass media companies established in 1975]] [[Category:1975 establishments in Washington (state)]] [[Category:Mass media companies disestablished in 2002]] [[Category:2002 disestablishments in Washington (state)]] [[Category:2002 mergers and acquisitions]]'