Barrett Broadcasting Network

Not to be confused with Bartlett Broadcasting.
The Barrett Broadcasting Network, occasionally shortened to BBN, or just Barrett, is an American major commercial broadcasting television network, created in 1970 to serve Central Maryland.
BBN's headquarters are at 10300 Little Patuxent Pkwy, Columbia, MD inside of the former Lord & Taylor department store at The Mall in Columbia. The company's news operations are centered primarily in Downtown Baltimore, sharing a studio with former local news affiliate and Barrett's ex-flagship station, WBNO-TV. 
== History ==
The network's history goes all the way back to 1970, when American retail real estate developer Jim Rouse contacted Michael Barrett, a former producer of WBAL in Baltimore, to create plans and eventually open a public television channel for future urban development of Columbia and surrounding cities/towns such as Ellicott City, Eldersburg, Frederick, Severna Park, Potomac, and parts of the D.C. Metropolitan area. The original headquarters for planning and the first 27 years of Barrett Broadcasting Network were off of Broken Land Pkwy at a now redeveloped building.
Plans for a local station covering news rather than entertainment would come into action in January of 1971 when 2 floors of a brand new office building were bought up. This would become WBNO-TV's first television studio for the next 23 years. About 11 months later, on December 12, 1971, both WBNO and BBN began broadcasting for the first time.
In mid-March 1990, RC Holdings, a subsidiary of RavCo, bought up all assets of Barrett Broadcasting Network. In that same year, the owner of the (at the time) small business corporation's son, Brandon Lebedev Jr, became lead producer of WBNO. 4 years later, in September 1994, Barrett bought a newly built television studio at Television Hill in Baltimore and WBNO's studio was moved into the new building.
4 years later, in 1998, Barrett Broadcasting Network's television studio was moved to WBNO's Television Hill studio.
In 2005, MeTV became an affiliate of Barrett Broadcast Network, transmitting from their studio in Frederick, MD under the WBNO callsign.
In July 2022, Barrett Broadcasting Network made the announcement that they would be transferring all of their local affiliates to Burns Communications so they could focus more on national news coverage rather than both national and local news stations.
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