Communications Corporation of America

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Communications Corporation of America
Company type Private (subsidiary of Silver Point Capital)
Industry Telecommunications
Founded1989
FounderThomas R. Galloway
D. Wayne Elmore
DefunctJanuary 1, 2015 (2015-01-01) (8 years ago)
FateAcquired by Nexstar
Successor Nexstar Broadcasting Group
Headquarters
Lafayette, Louisiana
,
U.S.
Key people
Thomas R. Galloway, CEO
Services Television stations
Owner
  • Thomas R. Galloway
  • D. Wayne Elmore
Number of employees
345

Communications Corporation of America (also known as ComCorp) was a broadcasting company in the United States that owned television stations in smaller markets. The company was headquartered in Lafayette, Louisiana. [1] It owned and/or operated 20 stations (counting satellite stations and those controlled via local marketing agreements). The company began in 1989 and the next year, it purchased three television stations from Southwest MultiMedia Company of Houston: KVEO in Brownsville, KPEJ in Odessa, and KWKT in Waco using the holding company Associated Broadcasters. They also purchased the license for WPFT in Baton Rouge, LA, which they signed on in 1991 as WGMB with the holding Galloway Media. [2]

At one point, ComCorp was also an owner of radio stations in its home market of Lafayette; it subsequently sold those stations to Regent Communications. [3]

In June 2006, ComCorp filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. [4] The company emerged from bankruptcy in October 2007 under the control of Silver Point Capital, who also controlled Granite Broadcasting. [1]

Local news on ComCorp's owned or managed stations are structured variably, with most stations not producing news in-house. As of May 2011, the only ComCorp owned-and-operated stations with in-house local newscasts are KTSM-TV and KETK-TV; two ComCorp managed stations, WVLA-TV and KDBC-TV also produce their own newscasts. Most of the remainder of the company's stations have their newscasts outsourced to other stations in the company portfolio: most of ComCorp's Fox stations in Louisiana and Texas have local newscasts produced by KETK (with the exception of WGMB in Baton Rouge, whose newscasts are produced out of area sister station WVLA); the newscasts for NBC affiliate KVEO-TV in Brownsville, Texas, though are produced by El Paso CBS affiliate KDBC-TV); the remainder of ComCorp's owned and managed stations, including CBS affiliate WEVV-TV (the only Big Three station in the group without any local news), do not carry news at all.

On January 15, 2013, Communications Corporation of America put all of its 25 owned or managed stations up for sale, with investment firm Houlihan Lokey hired to assist in the exploration of sale options. [5] [6] On April 24, ComCorp announced that its entire group would be sold to Nexstar Broadcasting Group; KMSS-TV, KPEJ-TV and most of the ComCorp-managed stations that are owned by White Knight Broadcasting would be sold to Mission Broadcasting while WEVV-TV and White Knight Broadcasting's KSHV-TV would be sold to a female-controlled company called Rocky Creek Communications, with Nexstar assuming operational control of those stations. [7] However, on June 6, 2014, Nexstar announced that it would instead sell KMSS & KPEJ to a new minority-owned company Marshall Broadcasting Group (marking the company's first television station acquisitions) for $58.5 million. [8] Also on August 4, Nexstar announced that it would instead sell WEVV to Bayou City Broadcasting for $18.6 million. [9] Mission & Rocky Creek would later withdraw its applications to acquire KFXK, KSHV & WVLA. [10] [11] [12] The sale was completed on January 1, 2015. [13]

It was the last remaining TV station group that didn't have an ABC affiliate when sold; however, it had temporarily owned and operated current-Fox affiliate WHBQ-TV of Memphis during its last days as an ABC affiliate and managed KAQY in Monroe, Louisiana during its first nine years as an ABC affiliate.

Former stations

Stations owned by Communications Corporation of America
Media market StateStationPurchasedSoldNotes
Evansville Indiana WTSN-CD 19992009 [a]
WEVV-TV 19992015
WEEV-LD 20112015
Alexandria Louisiana WNTZ-TV 19972015 [a]
Baton Rouge WGMB-TV**19912015
WBRL-CD 20022015
WVLA-TV 19962015 [a]
KZUP-CD 20022015 [a]
Lafayette KADN-TV 19972015 [a]
KFTE 19962001
KLAF-LD 19972015
KMDL 19962001
KROF 19992001
KPEL 19892001
KRKA 19972001 [b]
KTDY 19892001
Shreveport KMSS-TV 19942015
KSHV-TV 19952015 [a]
Memphis Tennessee WHBQ-TV 19941995
Austin Texas KAKW 19962002
Brownsville–Harlingen–McAllen KVEO-TV 19902015
Bryan–College Station KYLE-TV 19962015 [A]
El Paso KTSM 19971998
KTSM-FM 19971998
KTSM-TV 19972015
KDBC-TV 20092015 [a]
Odessa–Midland KPEJ-TV 19902015
Tyler–Longview–Nacogdoches KETK-LP 20042011 [a] [B]
KETK-TV 20042015 [a]
KFXL-LP 19982015 [a] [C]
KFXK-TV 19982015 [a]
Waco–Temple KWKT-TV 19902015
  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Owned by a third party and operated by ComCorp.
  2. ↑ Known as KPEL-FM prior to 1998 and as KRKZ from 1998 to 2000.
  1. ↑ Satellite of KWKT-TV.
  2. ↑ Satellite of KETK-TV.
  3. ↑ Satellite of KFXK-TV.

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  13. ↑ Consummation Notice Archived January 6, 2015, at the Wayback Machine , CDBS Public Access, Federal Communications Commission, Retrieved January 6, 2015.
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