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Raycom announced on April 25, 2005, it was the launch station group for The Tube affiliating 29 stations. [7] Raycom launched the network in June 2005 on 30 stations. [8] Raycom Media was an initial round investor in The Tube Music Network. [9] On January 31, 2006, the company acquired the Liberty Corporation. [10]
Raycom Sports was started in July 1979 by Rick and Dee Ray in Charlotte. [1] [2] Rick Ray was a program manager at WCCB in Charlotte [3] when he proposed that WCCB, which had become an independent station a year earlier after losing its ABC affiliation, produce more basketball games.
WAVE-TV [13] 3.1: NBC: Raycom Media: Primary affiliate; added in 2014 after the University of Louisville joined the ACC. WHAS-TV [14] 11.1: ABC: Tegna, Inc. Alternate affiliate Murray: WQTV-LP: 24.1: The CW Me-TV: Raycom Media: Full-power simulcast available on KFVS-DT2/Cape Girardeau, Missouri. WQWQ is a satellite translator of WQTV Newport ...
In 1986, it dropped the "-TV" suffix, though as mentioned above channel 12 and its radio sister had gone their separate ways three decades earlier. Liberty exited the insurance business in 2002, bringing the station directly under the Liberty banner. The company merged with Raycom Media in 2006. Since Raycom was headquartered in Montgomery ...
ACC men's basketball had been broadcast by Raycom/JP Sports, a joint venture of Raycom Sports and Jefferson-Pilot Teleproductions, since the 1982–83 basketball season. . The roots of the current package date to 1957, when Greensboro businessman C.D. Chesley hastily assembled a five-station network to broadcast North Carolina's appearance in that year's Final Fou
The practice of distributing ACC sports to regional sports networks started in 2011 after the signing of a new 12-year agreement between the ACC, ESPN and Raycom Sports. The agreement gave Raycom Sports the ability to syndicate a select number of football, basketball and Olympic sports on regional sports networks. [3]
On May 7, 2015, Raycom Media agreed to purchase KNIN-TV for $14.5 million; Scripps then entered into a shared services agreement to allow KIVI to continue to provide services to KNIN-TV, the second such agreement between Scripps and Raycom after one in West Palm Beach, Florida. [27] The sale was completed on October 1, 2015. [28]
The sale became final on April 3, 2006, with the Jefferson-Pilot stations assuming the new corporate name of Lincoln Financial Media. On November 12, 2007, that company announced the sale of WWBT along with its two other television stations and Lincoln Financial Sports to Raycom Media for $583 million. Raycom already owned rival station WTVR.