Barrington Broadcasting - History

History

Barrington Broadcasting was formed in May, 2003 by a group of former Benedek Broadcasting executives. With Benedek having filed for bankruptcy and divested itself of all television properties in 2002, former President K. James Yager along with Senior Vice-Presidents Chris Cornelius, Keith Bland, and Mary Flodin pooled their talents to create a new company to focus solely on medium and small market broadcasting. The company began operations in January 2004 with its purchases of former Benedek stations WHOI-TV (Peoria, Illinois) and KHQA-TV (Hannibal, Missouri/Quincy, Illinois) along with WEYI-TV in Vienna Township, Michigan. Barrington grew slowly at first, adding five more stations between 2004 and early 2006. A major expansion took place in August, 2006 when Raycom Media agreed to sell twelve of its network-affiliated TV stations to Barrington for $262 million dollars. In recent years Barrington has been at the forefront of integrating social media and the internet into their on-air content.

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