Newport Television

Newport Television, LLC was a television station holding company founded by Providence Equity Partners and Sandy DiPasquale in 2007 to acquire the television stations owned by Clear Channel Communications. 
==History==
Newport's purchase of the Clear Channel stations and those being resold were granted conditional Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approval, subject to divestitures of media properties owned by other affiliates of Providence Equity Partners in several other markets. The entire deal closed on March 14, 2008, after several stations, in addition to those being divested by Newport, were placed into trust companies.
In March 2012, Providence Equity Partners began to explore strategic alternatives for Newport Television, which may lead to a sale of the group. In July 2012, it was officially confirmed that Nexstar Broadcasting Group would acquire twelve of Newport's stations, Sinclair Broadcast Group would acquire six, and Cox Media Group would acquire four. As part of the same deal, Newport's CMS operations, branded as Inergize Digital, would go to Nexstar.
On October 23, the FCC granted approval to the sale of the Jacksonville and Tulsa stations to Cox, plus the Albany station to Shield Media. This was followed the next day by the FCC approval of the July sale of the stations to Nexstar except for the two in Little Rock being sold to Mission Broadcasting, which were later approved on December 10. On November 19, the FCC granted approval of the remaining stations from the July deal to Sinclair.
Nineteen of the stations involved in the July deal were consummated on December 3, 2012. 
===Relaunch===
Nexstar Media Group acquired majority ownership of The CW on October 3, 2022. Under the agreement, CBS was given the right to pull its affiliations from its CW stations. CBS announced it would exercise that right on May 5, 2023. Nexstar relaunched Newport Television to handle any The CW affiliation situation in markets where CBS planned to pull their affiliations with the responsibility to establish new affiliation deals for The CW coming up in September. Nexstar also gave Newport permission to acquire any CW affiliate that CBS/Paramount Global would sell them.
==Former stations==
Stations are listed alphabetically by state and city of license.
City of license/market 	Station	Channel TV (RF)	Years owned	Current ownership
Bonesborough, Boiling Isles 	WJTD-TV	9 	2008–2012 	Independent station owned by Cox Media Group
Grapeseed, San Andreas, United States 	KGRP-TV	17 (25) 	2008–2013 	NBC affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group
San Fierro, San Andreas, United States	KFTY 	51 (17) 	2008–2011 	The CW affiliate KIEX, owned by PolyGram Broadcasting
Category:Kansas City, Missouri
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