Northwest Broadcasting

Northwest Broadcasting, Inc.

Company type	Private
Industry	Broadcasting
Founded	1995
Founder	Brian Brady
Defunct	2019
Headquarters	Okemos, Michigan , United States
Area served	United States
Products	Television stations

Northwest Broadcasting, Inc. was a television broadcast enterprise headquartered in Okemos, Michigan. It managed or owned a total of twelve stations spanning six distinct markets, operating through various subsidiaries such as Broadcasting Communications, Mountain Communications, Stainless Broadcasting, and Bristlecone Broadcasting.

History

Established in 1995 by Brian Brady, Northwest initially acquired stations from Salmon River Communications, including KAYU-TV (Spokane, Washington), KCYU-LD (Yakima, Washington), KBWU-LP (Tri-Cities, Washington), and KMVU-DT (Medford, Oregon). Two years later, in 1997, Northwest expanded its portfolio by purchasing Stainless, Inc. for $17 million, which added WICZ-TV (Binghamton, New York) and KTVZ (Bend, Oregon). Stainless had been involved in broadcasting since it acquired WICZ in 1971. In 1999, Northwest divested Stainless’ tower division to SpectraSite Holdings and later sold KTVZ to News-Press & Gazette Company in 2002 while retaining WICZ-TV under the Stainless Broadcasting name.

Brian Brady further broadened his media interests in 2002 by collaborating with Alta Communications to acquire K-Six Television stations under the Eagle Creek Broadcasting banner; Alta had been an investor in Northwest since 1996 but exited by 2007. During the 2010s, Brady continued to grow his portfolio through entities such as Blackhawk Broadcasting, Bristlecone Broadcasting, and Cedar Creek Broadcasting. These companies frequently submitted joint filings with Northwest under the collective title "The TV Station Group" in Federal Communications Commission (FCC) matters.

In February 2019, Apollo Global Management announced plans to purchase Brian Brady's entire television station collection to combine it with Cox Media Group and certain stations divested from Nexstar’s acquisition of Tribune Media. Apollo’s subsidiary Terrier Media was designated to acquire Northwest Broadcasting while allowing Brady to maintain a minority stake. By June 2019, following Apollo’s acquisition of Cox’s radio and advertising divisions, Terrier Media adopted the Cox Media Group name. The acquisition was finalized on December 17, 2019.

Former stations

• Stations are organized alphabetically by state and city of license.

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Stations formerly owned by Northwest Broadcasting

Media market	State	Station	Acquisition Year	Disposal Year	Additional Information
Yuma	Arizona	KSWT	2014	2019
		KYMA-DT	2014	2019	Operated by News-Press & Gazette Company.
Eureka	California	KIEM-TV	2017	2019
		KVIQ	2016	2017
		KVIQ-LD	2016	2019
Pocatello–Idaho Falls	Idaho	KPVI-DT	2016	2019
Twin Falls		KXTF	2016	2017
Bowling Green	Kentucky	WNKY	1997	2003	Formerly known as WKNT until 2001.
Alexandria	Louisiana	KLAX-TV	2018	2019
		KWCE-LP	2018	2019
Greenville–Greenwood	Mississippi	WABG-TV	2016	2019
		WFXW	2016	2019	Owned by a third party but operated by Northwest Broadcasting.
		WNBD-LD	2016	2019
		WXVT-LD	2017	2019
Binghamton	New York	WBPN-LP	2000	2019
		WICZ-TV	1997	2019
Syracuse		WNYS-TV	2013	2019	Exclusively operated by Northwest Broadcasting from 2013 to 2018.
		WSYT	2013	2019
Bend	Oregon	KTVZ	1997	2002
Medford		KFBI-LD	2013	2019
		KMCW-LP	2013	2016
		KMVU-DT	1995	2019
Corpus Christi	Texas	KZTV	2002	2010
Laredo		KNEX-LP	2012	2015
		KVTV	2002	2015