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Barrington Broadcasting Group, LLC

Company type	Private
Industry	Mass media
Genre	Television broadcasting
Founded	May 2003; 22 years ago (2003-05)
Founders	Keith Bland Chris Cornelius Mary Flodin K. James Yager
Defunct	November 25, 2013; 12 years ago (2013-11-25)
Fate	Acquired bySinclair
Successor	Sinclair Broadcast Group
Headquarters	Schaumburg, Illinois , USA
Number of locations	Fifteen ranked television markets (U.S.)
Key people	K. James Yager, CEO Warren Spector, CFO
Services	Broadcasting
Parent	Pilot Group

Barrington Broadcasting Group, LLC was anAmerican mass media and broadcasting company based inSchaumburg, Illinois. It ownedtelevision stations primarily in middle and small-sizedmedia markets. Barrington owned or operated viaduopoly twenty-four television stations, with the potential to reach about 3.4 percent of households in the U.S.^[1] It was owned by Pilot Group, aprivate equity firm.

Barrington Broadcasting was established in May 2003 by a team of former executives fromBenedek Broadcasting. Following Benedek's bankruptcy and subsequent divestiture of all television assets in 2002, K. James Yager, the former President, along with Senior Vice-Presidents Chris Cornelius, Keith Bland, and Mary Flodin, formed a company for medium and small market broadcasting.^[2]

The company began operations in January 2004 with its purchases of former Benedek stationsWHOI-TV (Peoria, Illinois) andKHQA-TV (Hannibal, Missouri/Quincy, Illinois) along withWEYI-TV inVienna Township, Michigan. Barrington grew slowly at first, adding five more stations between 2004 and early 2006. A major expansion took place on March 27, 2006, whenRaycom Media agreed to sell twelve of its network-affiliated TV stations to Barrington for $262 million.^[3] The sale was completed on August 11.^[4] In recent years, Barrington had been at the forefront of integrating social media and the internet into their on-air content.^[2]

In late 2012, it was announced that Pilot Group had put Barrington up for sale and that bothNexstar Broadcasting Group andSinclair Broadcast Group were in final talks to acquire the full regiment of stations.^[5] On February 28, 2013, Barrington announced that it would sell its stations to Sinclair.^[6] The sale was granted FCC approval on November 18.^[7] The transaction was formally consummated on November 25.^[8]

• Stations are arranged in alphabetical order by state andcity of license.

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