Television
Lee formerly operated a broadcasting division, which it sold in 2000 in order to focus on newspaper publishing. Most of the TV stations were sold to Emmis Communications, and have all been sold, as of 2007, to other companies.
| DMA Rank | Market | Station | Years Owned | Currently |
| 22. | Portland | KOIN 6 | 1977–2000 | CBS network affiliate owned by LIN Media |
| 44. | Albuquerque - Santa Fe | KRQE 13 | 1991–2000 | CBS network affiliate owned by LIN Media |
| 63. | Huntington - Charleston | WSAZ-TV 3 | 1971–2000 | NBC network affiliate owned by Gray Television |
| 66. | Tucson | KGUN 9 | 1986–2000 | ABC network affiliate owned by Journal Broadcast Group |
| 69. | Wichita - Hutchinson Plus | KSNW 3/ KSNC 2/ KSNG 11/ KSNK 8 |
1995–2000 | NBC network affiliates owned by LIN Media |
| 72. | Honolulu | KGMB 9 (now 5) |
1977–2000 | CBS network affiliate owned by Raycom Media |
| 76. | Omaha - Council Bluffs | KMTV 3 | 1986–2000 | CBS network affiliate owned by Journal Broadcast Group |
| 98. | El Paso - Las Cruces - Ciudad Juárez | KMAZ 48 | 1993–1998 | Telemundo network affiliate KTDO owned by ZGS Communications |
| 138. | Topeka | KSNT 27 | 1995–2000 | NBC network affiliate owned by LIN Media |
| 154. | Rochester - Mason City - Austin | KGLO-TV 3** | 1954–1977 | CBS network affiliate KIMT owned by LIN Media |
| 171. | Quincy - Hannibal - Keokuk - Macomb | KHQA-TV 7** | 1953–1986 | CBS network affiliate owned by Barrington Broadcasting |
| 199. | Mankato | KEYC-TV 12** | 1960–1977 | CBS network affiliate owned by United Communications Corporation |
In addition, Lee also operated KASY-TV in Albuquerque which was owned by Ramar Communications. That station was a UPN affiliate. KASY was sold to WB affiliate KWBQ in 1999 when the LMA was terminated.
** - indicates a station built and signed-on by Lee Enterprises.
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Famous quotes containing the word television:
“It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find at galaxy’s edge. But in the process, we have lost the human element; not to mention the high hope of those quaint days when flight would create “one world.” Instead of one world, we have “star wars,” and a future in which dumb dented human toys will drift mindlessly about the cosmos long after our small planet’s dead.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)
“The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn’t there something reassuring about it!—that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another’s eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms—nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)
“Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.”
—Clive James (b. 1939)