Deerfield Media
Deerfield Media is a broadcasting company and a shell corporation owned and operated by Stephen P. Mumblow, established on December 1, 2012 by the acquisition of several television stations connected to the Sinclair Broadcast Group. All of its stations are part of duopolies with another Sinclair-owned station, and are operated under local marketing agreements or similar by Sinclair.
As a part of its acquisition of multiple stations from Newport Television in Cincinnati and San Antonio, Sinclair sold WSTR-TV and KMYS to Deerfield, and also gave them an option to purchase WJTC and WPMI at a later date. Deerfield Media also acquired KBTV-TV, a Fox affiliate in Beaumont, Texas, from Nexstar Broadcasting Group, whose operations were assumed by Sinclair's KFDM. Through an option exercised by Sinclair, Deerfield also acquired WUTB, a MyNetworkTV affiliate owned by Fox Television Stations. This purchase created a triopoly between Sinclair's Fox affiliate, WBFF, and CW affiliate, WNUV. Deerfield also reached a deal to acquire the license assets of WHAM-TV, an ABC affiliate in Rochester, New York, also from Newport Television, and to acquire KAME-TV, the MyNetworkTV affiliate in Reno, Nevada, from Ellis Communications on February 1, 2013 as part of Sinclair's purchase of KRXI-TV from Cox Media Group.
In April 2018, Deerfield Media moved its headquarters from New York City to Park City, Utah.
Stations currently owned by Deerfield Media
Stations are arranged alphabetically by state and by city of license.City of license / market | Station | Channel TV | Owned since | Network affiliation |
Pensacola, FL - Mobile, AL | WPMI-TV | 15 | 2012 | NBC |
Pensacola, FL - Mobile, AL | WJTC | 44 | 2012 | Independent |
Baltimore, MD | WUTB | 24 | 2013 | MyNetworkTV |
Reno, NV | KNSN-TV | 21 | 2013 | MyNetworkTV |
Rochester, NY | WHAM-TV | 13 | 2013 | ABC |
Cincinnati, OH | WSTR-TV | 64 | 2012 | MyNetworkTV |
Port Arthur - Beaumont, TX | KBTV-TV | 4 | 2012 | Fox |
Kerrville - San Antonio, TX | KMYS | 35 | 2012 | The CW |
Deerfield Media also owns cable channel, Park City Television a local broadcaster, founded in 1987 on channel 45 in Park City, Utah & Comcast channels 17 & 102.