Marble Broadcasting Group

Marble Broadcasting Group, Inc. is an American publicly traded local media station company, which is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, and Midtown Des Moines, Iowa. The company is the popular television station owner in the United States, currently owning six stations across the U.S., and currently growing the company in the future, most of which are the affiliates with the four major U.S. television networks, and MyNetworkTV. It also operates television station owned by the affiliated company with the joint sales agreement and shared services agreements, which is Rockwright Broadcasting. Marble Broadcasting Group is also affiliated with The CW through a 80% percent stake.
The Marble Broadcasting Group was founded by Kate A. Zimmerman on July 21, 1977, which it was initially backed up by ARBY partners. The first television station was bought by Marble Broadcasting Group was WFXS-TV in Bluefield, Minnesota. Marble bought WFXS-TV from Kevin Beltran from Beltran Communications, Inc. The sale was completed in March 2, 1992 in that year. Marble promptly hired two beloved anchors and laid off several long-term staff members in 1984. Marble Broadcasting Group founder Kate A. Zimmerman said that WFXS-TV would be the flagship television station, keeping the office off the newsroom years. In January 11, 1991, Marble Broadcasting Group purchased WXZH-TV firstly after KAZY-TV in Redwood-Hope Valley, Texas. Because this was in the different market with WFXS-TV as the first purchased station after Beltran sold the independent (now Fox) television station to Kate A. Zimmerman. This began the first-ever nation between WFXS and KAZY-TV. WFXS-TV’s staff and news operations alongside with KAZY-TV’s news operations was moved into their different studio plazas while the purchased stations kept their sales and management team.
In April 4, 1997, Marble acquired WKBX-TV, the CBS affiliate in Lansing, Michigan from Beltran Communications, for which it paid $19.5 million.
On March 19, 2009, Marble Broadcasting Group acquired the independent station WWXA-TV, and was sold after to Rockwright Broadcasting, while Marble Broadcasting Group still continues to operate the station through shared services agreements (SSA).
In June 2011, Marble Broadcasting Group agreed to purchase Energize Digital Media from Howard Broadcasting, with two stations going to affiliate Rockwright Broadcasting. It was renamed “Marble Media Digital” after that closed the purchase for $11 million.
(**) Purchased by Marble Broadcasting Group
(§§) Purchased by Partner company Rockwright Broadcasting and operated by Marble Broadcasting Group via SSA
Station(s)	Channels	Affiliations	City/State/Country 	Notes
WFXS-TV 	15 (UHF)
34 (Virtual)	Fox 	Bluefield, MN
Rockville, MN	Owned since March 2, 1992
WKBX-TV 	33 (UHF)
20 (Virtual)	CBS 	Lansing-Jackson, MI	Owned since April 4, 1997
KAZY-TV 	13 (UHF)
28 (Virtual)	ABC 	Redwood, TX
Hope Valley, TX	Owned since January 12, 1989
WXZH-TV
WMYX-TV	22 (UHF)
31 (Virtual)
19 (UHF)
29 (Virtual)	The CW
MyNetworkTV	Redwood, TX
Hope Valley, TX	Owned since January 11, 1991
WWXA-TV 	20 (UHF)
25 (Virtual)	Independent 	Redwood, TX
Hope Valley, TX	Owned by Rockwright Broadcasting since January 11, 1992
(via SSA) shared services agreement