ZGS Communications
{{short description|Former American television and radio broadcast company}}
File:ZGS Communications logo.pngZGS Communications, also referred to as the ZGS Group or ZGS Broadcasting, was a television and radio station operator in the United States, based in Arlington, Virginia. The company operated 11 stations: 10 television stations and one radio station. All of their television stations and one radio station broadcast in Spanish.
On December 4, 2017, NBCUniversal's Telemundo Station Group announced its purchase of ZGS' 10 television stations.{{cite news|last1=Miller|first1=Mark K.|title=NBCU Adding ZGS Stations To Telemundo|url=http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/109362/nbcu-adding-zgs-stations-to-telemundo|access-date=December 4, 2017|work=TVNewsCheck|date=December 4, 2017|language=en}}
The sale was completed in early 2018.{{cite news |title=NBCU Completes ZGS Stations Buy {{!}} TVNewsCheck.com |url=http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/110882/nbcu-completes-zgs-stations-buy |access-date=25 June 2018 |work=www.tvnewscheck.com |date=1 February 2018 |language=en}} Two of the stations (WRIW-CD and WZGS-CD) were filed separately, as ZGS were negotiating channel sharing agreements at the time of the sale. Those sales were completed in July 2018.[http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1787380&Service=DC&Form_id=905&Facility_id=70184 Consummation Notice], CDBS Public Notice, Federal Communications Commission, Retrieved 24 July 2018[http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1787375&Service=DC&Form_id=905&Facility_id=41095 Consummation Notice], CDBS Public Notice, Federal Communications Commission, Retrieved 24 July 2018
Effective April 10, 2018, ZGS sold their sole radio station to Alejandro Carrasco's ACR Media, Inc.
Former stations
- Stations are arranged in alphabetical order by state and city of license.
| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Stations owned by ZGS Communications ! scope="col" | Media market ! scope="col" | State/District ! scope="col" | Station ! scope="col" | Purchased ! scope="col" | Sold ! scope = "col" class="unsortable" | Notes | |||
| Fresno | California
! scope="row" | KNSO | 2009 | 2014 | {{efn|name=NBCU|Owned by NBCUniversal and operated by ZGS.}} |
| Hartford–New Haven | Connecticut
! scope="row" | WRDM-CD | 2001 | 2018 | |
| rowspan="2" |Washington, D.C. | rowspan="2" |District of Columbia
! scope="row" | WILC | 2004 | 2018 | |
| scope="row" | WZDC-CD
| 1994 || 2018 || | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Myers | rowspan="5" | Florida
! scope="row" | WWDT-CD | 2004 | 2018 | |
| Orlando
! scope="row" | WTMO-CD | 1995 | 2018 | ||
| rowspan="3" |Tampa–St. Petersburg
! scope="row" | WAMA | 1998 | 2016 | ||
| scope="row" | WGES
| 1991 || 2016 || | |||
| scope="row" | WRMD-CD
| 1991 || 2018 || | |||
| rowspan="2" | Boston | rowspan="3" | Massachusetts
! scope="row" | WNEU | 2003 | 2014 | {{efn|name=NBCU}} |
| scope="row" | WTMU-LP
| 2002 || 2016 || | |||
| Springfield
! scope="row" | WDMR-LD | 2001 | 2018 | {{efn|Satellite of WRDM-CD.}} | |
| Raleigh–Durham | North Carolina
! scope="row" | WZGS-CD | 2004 | 2018 | |
| Philadelphia | Pennsylvania
! scope="row" | WWSI | 2008 | 2013 | |
| Providence | Rhode Island
! scope="row" | WRIW-CD | 2003 | 2018 | |
| El Paso | rowspan="2" | Texas
! scope="row" | KTDO | 2004 | 2018 | |
| San Antonio
! scope="row" | KVDA | 2009 | 2014 | {{efn|name=NBCU}} | |
| Richmond | Virginia
! scope="row" | WZTD-LD | 2007 | 2018 |
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References
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Category:Defunct broadcasting companies of the United States
Category:Mass media companies disestablished in 2018
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