Journal Media Group

Journal Media Group (formerly Journal Communications) is a Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based newspaper publishing company. The company's roots were first established in 1882 as the owner of its namesake, the Milwaukee Journal, and expanded into broadcasting with the establishment of WTMJ radio and WTMJ-TV, and the acquisition of other television and radio stations.
==History==
The Milwaukee Journal was started in 1882, in competition with four other English-language, four German- and two Polish-language dailies. It launched WMJT in 1960. The Journal Company, until then primarily owned by local interests, introduced an employee stock trust plan in 1937, and as a result most Journal stock was eventually held by its employees (under certain restrictions). A small bloc of Journal stock was given to Harvard to fund the Nieman Fellowship program for promising journalists, and another bloc was still held by the original owning families until the IPO.
The Milwaukee Sentinel, begun in 1837 as a weekly published by city co-founder Solomon Juneau, passed through the hands of several owners before being sold to the Hearst Corporation in 1924. Hearst operated the Sentinel until 1962, when, following a long and costly strike, it abruptly announced the closing of the paper. Although Hearst claimed that the paper had lost money for years, The Journal Company, concerned about the loss of an important voice (and facing questions about its own dominance of the Milwaukee media market), agreed to buy the Sentinel name, subscription lists, and goodwill associated with the name. In 1995 the Journal and Sentinel were consolidated. The new Journal Sentinel then became a seven-day morning paper.
Journal Media started expanding their territory by acquiring KFWT in 1970 and by the end of the century, Journal Media's empire began to grow. by 2010, Journal acquired 9 more stations. Of all the stations the Journal Media owns, only one (WGEA) doesn't have a news department. WMYA's newscast is produced by WSBB.
On July 30, 2014, it was announced that Journal would sell most of its stations to the E. W. Scripps Company in an all-stock transaction. Scripps would retain the two firms' broadcasting properties, while both the Scripps and Journal print properties would be spun off as Journal Media Group. The FCC approved the deal on December 12, 2014, and it was approved by shareholders on March 11, 2015. The acquisition and spin-off were finalized on April 1, 2015; Stephen J. Smith was replaced as CEO by Timothy E. Stautberg—the former head of Scripps' newspaper operation. Although Journal Media Group was based at Journal Communications' old headquarters in Milwaukee, the latter company was legally defunct, having been absorbed into Scripps and renamed "Desk BC Merger, LLC".
Following the sale of its stations to Scripps, Journal continues to own some in select markets.
==Television stations==
===Currently owned by Journal===
Stations are listed alphabetically by state and city of license.
City of license/market	Station	Channel TV (RF)	Owned since	Affiliation
Indianapolis, Indiana 	WIIN 	9 	2015 	ABC
Terre Haute, Indiana 	WFNB 	7 	2015 	ABC
Buffalo, New York 	WBUF 	34 	2015 	Fox
===Formerly owned by Journal===
Stations are listed alphabetically by state and city of license.
City of license/market 	Station 	Channel TV (RF)	Years owned	Current ownership
Isle Delfino, Mushroom Kingdom	MSHO-TV/MTID-TV	13 (17) 	1979–2015 	ABC affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps Company
Livetopia, Robloxia 	KLTP-TV 	4 (29) 	1953–2015 	ABC/Central affiliate owned by JD Broadcasting Properties
Las Venturas, San Andreas 	KSHO-TV/KTLV 	13 (13) 	1979–2015 	ABN owned-and-operated station
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