GamerCraft Broadcast Group

GamerCraft Broadcast Group is an American media conglomerate owned by Red Gordonia. Its main headquarters are at the Gameria Thirteen Communications Center in Gameria City, MC.
== History ==
=== GamerCraft's beginnings ===
In 1995, Red Gordonia purchased Gameria City-licensed WNT radio, as well as the construction permit for the channel 13 license in the area.
In 1997, he signed on WNT-TV. The company had good relations with the ITV Network, as Gordonia's sign on of the television station brought ITV to the Gameria City market, stemming from 8 years of being rejected by independent stations.
In 2000, WNT's first acquisition was that of then-ITV affiliate WMUT-TV (then on channel 10; now on channel 8) in Mattupolis, Mattula from Bonneville International.
In January 2001, WNT acquired CBS affiliate WSOE-TV in Endreaville, Welter from Craftsman Broadcasting.
In February of the same year, WNT, in a local marketing agreement with Craftsman Broadcasting (which was consumated by the company later on), operated the Mattupolis duopoly of NBC affiliate WMMN-TV and UPN (now MyNetworkTV) affiliate WMMT, making a virtual triopoly with the aforementioned ITV affiliate WMUT.
In 2003, acquired WB (now CW) affiliate WWDS-TV in Welterhampton, Welter from Welter United.
=== MCTV's foundation ===
During the 2016-2017 season, WNT, now under the name TeamGAMERTV Broadcasting, bought then-ABC affiliate WMFC (channel 2) in Gameria City, effectively making a duopoly, as well as independent stations WKKL (channel 6) in Chicago and KSC (channel 13) in Los Angeles. The company also attemped to buy WZTV (channel 15) in Philadelphia, but its owners declined. The foundation of the Minecraft Television network began when the company, now under its current name, bought independent station WCYN (channel 23) in New York from Weigel Broadcasting. GBG then partnered with Microsoft, through its Mojang subsidiary, to form MCTV.
After the focus on MCTV got less to the eyes of GBG, they sold their 50% share MCTV and all but one of their O&Os to Philippine media conglomerate Trinome Media. Using the money from the sale, GBG bought out the Craftsman Broadcasting company from the Williams family. The Craftsman deal forced GBG to sell its O&O-turned-affiliate WMUT-TV to E-Media to avoid violating FCC regulations.
=== GBG's significant growth ===
E-Media purchased the Kenny Broadcasting chain, and decided to divest some stations. GBG purchased 7 stations.
== Television stations ==
:* - indicates a station signed on by GBG
# CB - indicates a station purchased from Craftsman Broadcasting, including those acquired from the merger
# KB - indicates a station divested by E-Media as part of its acquisition of the final remnants of the Kenny Broadcasting chain
# LMG - indicates a station purchased from LUCASRIO Media Group
# CTS - indicates a station purchased from CBS Television Stations
=== Current stations ===
City of license 	Station 	Channel
TV (RF)	Affiliation 	Owned since	Notes
Gameria City, MC 	WNT-TV* 	13 (39)	ITV 	1997 	Flagship station of the company
Dashington, MC 	WDSN-TV 	2 (2) 	NBC 	2010 	
Dashington, MC 	WDAS-DTLMG	5 (5) 	Minecraft Television	2019 	
Mattupolis, ML 	WMMN-TVCB 	9 (9) 	NBC 	2019 	Craftsman's flagship station from 2001-2019
Mattupolis, ML 	WMMTCB 	50 (9) 	MNTV 	2019 	
Welterhampton, WT 	WWDS-TV 	11 (11)	CW 	2003 	
Welterhampton, WT 	WNWR-TV 	5 (5) 	CBS 	2019 	
Endreaville, WT 	WSOE-TVCB 	4 (4) 	CBS 	2001 	
Tenorio Santos, WT 	WVLY-TV 	20 (21)	ABC 	2019 	
Grand Rapids, MI 	WLGR-TVLMG	60 (60)	LUCASRIO 	2019 	
Green Bay, WI 	WWIL-TVLMG	49 (49)	LUCASRIO 	2019 	
Jackson, MS 	WLJK-TVLMG	31 (31)	LUCASRIO 	2019 	
Birmingham, AL 	WTCL-TVLMG	19 (19)	LUCASRIO 	2019 	
Birmingham, AL 	WSDC 	14 (14)	Independent 	2019 	
Waco, TX 	KII 	2 (43) 	NBC 	2019 	
Bloomington/Peoria, IL 	WCB 	4 (38) 	NBC 	2019 	
Portland, ME 	WMCS 	6 (34) 	NBC 	2019 	
Portland, ME 	WMFX-LD 	7 (6) 	Fox 	2019 	It is also called "WMCS-DT2" due to its more popular placement in WMCS's second subchannel.
Joplin, MO/Pittsburg, KS	KYOU 	13 (17)	CBS
MyNetworkTV 	2019 	
Yelpson, PA 	WYLP-TV 	5 (7) 	CBS 	2019 	
Chickasha, OK 	KQWK 	11 (22)	ABC 	2019 	
St. Paul/Minneapolis, MN	KFXX 	5 (6) 	Fox 	2019 	
Augusta, GA 	WAU 	58 (43)	Fox
UPN 	2019 	
Mankato, MN 	KRMB 	48 (35)	The CW 	2019 	
York, PA 	WEKB 	11 (25)	The CW 	2019 	
Toledo, OH 	WTOS 	40 (29)	The CW 	2019 	
Mayagüez, PR 	WDTQ-TV 	42 (41)	.1 Independent → NBC
.2 MCTV → Ion Television
.3 The WB Classics → MyNetworkTV
.4 Inactive → Independent
.5 Inactive → MCTV
.6 Inactive → The WB Classics	2020 	Remaining a de facto translator of WPRQ-TV 1 for the Mayagüez area, all of the subchannels will move from 42.1-3 to 42.4-6.
=== Television stations formerly owned by GBG ===
Note: It does not show analog channel numbers.
City of license 	Station 	Channel
TV (RF)	Years of ownership	Current status
Manila 	DWIO-LP 	28 (49)	2017-2019 	MCTV owned-and-operated (O&O) DWIO-TV
Gameria City, MC 	WMFC 	2 (2) 	2016-2019 	MCTV owned-and-operated (O&O)
New York City, NY	WCYN/WMOJ	23 (23)	2018-2019 	MCTV owned-and-operated (O&O)
Chicago, IL 	WKKL 	6 (6) 	2017-2019 	MCTV owned-and-operated (O&O)
Los Angeles, CA 	KSC/KMC 	13 (13)	2016-2019 	MCTV owned-and-operated (O&O)
Mattupolis, ML 	WMUT-TV 	8 (8) 	2000-2019 	MCTV affiliate owned by E-Media
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