Owned by the Nexstar Broadcasting Group, the station operates CBS affiliate WYOU ( that is owned by Mission Broadcasting ) through a joint sales agreement ( JSA ) and the two share studios on South Franklin Street in downtown Wilkes-Barre.

After numerous changes of ownership, the Nexstar Broadcasting Group acquired the station in January 1998.

Nexstar already owned WYOU but opted to keep WBRE and sold WYOU to Mission Broadcasting.

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Prior to the FCC's approval of the purchase which is expected in early 2012, Sinclair will manage the stations under local marketing agreements ( replacing Nexstar Broadcasting Group as Four Points ' LMA partner ) following antitrust approval of the sale by the Federal Trade Commission, Sinclair will also supply working capital to the stations in consideration of service fees and performance incentives through the LMAs.

The Federal Trade Commission ( FTC ) gave its antitrust approval of the deal in late September ; as a result, that October 1, Sinclair took over the management of the stations from the Nexstar Broadcasting Group through time brokerage agreements Cerberus would then pay Nexstar a portion of Sinclair's purchase price —$ 6. 7 million — to terminate the outsourcing agreement, which was set to expire in March 2012, five months early.

Owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, WUHF is operated through a shared services agreement ( SSA ) by the Nexstar Broadcasting Group as sister to CBS affiliate WROC-TV.

Sinclair Broadcast Group and Nexstar Broadcasting Group have been singled out as broadcasters utilizing LMA's as part of their business models the mostthe two broadcasters have financed holding companies ( such as Cunningham and Mission Broadcasting respectively ) whose only purpose are to acquire television stations in smaller markets outright so that they can be operated through an LMA by a station in the same market owned by its respective company.

On July 9, 2012, WLWT's parent company Hearst Television was involved in a dispute with Time Warner Cable, leading to WLWT being pulled from Time Warner Cable and temporarily replaced with Nexstar Broadcasting Group station WTWO of Terre Haute, Indiana ; Time Warner opted for such a distant signal like WTWO, as they do not have the rights to carry any NBC affiliate closest to them.

On July 9, 2012, WXII's parent company Hearst Television was involved in a dispute with Time Warner Cable, leading to WXII being pulled from Time Warner Cable and temporarily replaced with Nexstar Broadcasting Group station WBRE-TV of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania ; Time Warner opted for such a distant signal like WBRE, as they do not have the rights to carry any NBC affiliate closest to them.

On July 9, 2012, WPTZ's parent company Hearst Television was involved in a dispute with Time Warner Cable, leading to WPTZ being pulled from Time Warner Cable and temporarily replaced with Nexstar Broadcasting Group station WBRE-TV of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania ; Time Warner opted for such a distant signal like WBRE, as they do not have the rights to carry any NBC affiliate closest to them.

Owned by the Nexstar Broadcasting Group, WQRF operates ABC / MyNetworkTV affiliate WTVO ( owned by Mission Broadcasting ) through joint sales and shared services agreements and the two outlets share a facility together.

Current COO is Duane Lammers, a consultant to the company since mid 2008 and former COO of Nexstar Broadcasting Group.

Owned by Nexstar Broadcasting Group, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 34 ( virtual channel 17. 1 via PSIP ) from a transmitter at its studios in the city's Kilarney Shores section.

On January 28, 2009, Nexstar Broadcasting Group announced that it had reached an agreement to purchase WCWJ, The deal closed on May 1, 2009.

The sale of Equity's flagship Little Rock TV station KWBF ( now Nexstar Broadcasting Group's KARZ-TV ) closed at the end of January 2009 ; similarly named RTN radio station KWBF-FM had also been sold ( to Flinn Broadcasting Corporation ) and went silent on November 2008, later returning as KZTS under its new owner.

On July 9, 2012, WLKY's parent company Hearst Television was involved in a dispute with Time Warner Cable, leading to WLKY being pulled from Time Warner Cable and temporarily replaced with Nexstar Broadcasting Group station WROC-TV of Rochester, New York ; Time Warner chose the Rochester station as they do not own the rights to carry any of the other regional CBS affiliates.

Owned by Mission Broadcasting, WTVO is operated through joint sales and shared services agreements by the Nexstar Broadcasting Group.

Owned by Mission Broadcasting, the station is operated by the Nexstar Broadcasting Group through a joint sales agreement ( JSA ) as sister to NBC affiliate WBRE-TV.

As a result, WCWJ became the first ( and only ) CW affiliate that is owned and operated directly by Nexstar ( Nexstar also holds the broadcasting license of CW affiliate WLYH-TV / Harrisburg through an operational agreement with Newport Television, the agreement will be turned over to sister station WHP-TV's pending owner Sinclair Broadcast Group once that purchase is finalized ) and it is the largest television station by market size that is owned by Nexstar.

It is owned by the Irving, TX based Nexstar Broadcasting Group ; through a Local Sales Agreement KLST and its parent company Nexstar Broadcasting operate KSAN-TV, the NBC affiliate in San Angelo which is owned by Mission Broadcasting.

During March 2010, in a cost-cutting move, all owned and operated translators were shut down after Nexstar determined that its VHF signal for WBRE is adequate enough to reach the Wilkes-Barre viewing market.

This is a similar operation to existing joint news operations formed by Nexstar / Mission stations the year prior, between WUTR and WFXV in Utica, New York, and WTVW and WEHT in Evansville, Indiana.

However, Nexstar complained that Time Warner Cable has used their signals outside their markets without permission, while Time Warner Cable was within its rights to use their signals as replacements until a deal with Hearst is reached.

Nexstar is known for owning multiple television stations in a single market in 22 of their markets.

Prior to October 2011, Nexstar operated television stations that were owned by the Four Points Media Group ; however, on September 8, 2011, Sinclair announced its intent of purchasing the Four Points stations outright and took over the MSA for the stations that October upon Federal Trade Commission ( FTC ) approval of the deal ( the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) gave final approval of the group deal on December 21, and the Sinclair purchase of the Four Points stations was completed on January 1, 2012 ).

KMID is the ABC affiliated television station in Midland-Odessa, Texas, owned and operated by Nexstar Broadcasting Group, which is headquartered in Irving, Texas.

WEHT is the ABC-affiliated television station for the Tri-State area of Southwestern Indiana, Northwestern Kentucky and Southeastern Illinois ; it is owned by Nexstar Broadcasting Group under a shared services agreement with independent station WTVW ( owned by Mission Broadcasting ).

On January 3, 2007, Nexstar named Louis J. Abitabilo as Vice President and General Manager for the two stations.

These stations are either owned and operated by Nexstar, or controlled by Nexstar through management services agreements ( MSAs ) with Sinclair Broadcast Group.

Most of the stations Nexstar owns and operates were acquired through the acquisition of Quorum Broadcasting in 2003.

Many of these stations are licensed under the Mission Broadcasting brand, operated through MSAs with Nexstar to comply with current FCC ownership limits.

Many viewers of Nexstar owned or operated stations have complained that these stations have lagged far behind other stations in those markets in beginning airing local programming ( including newscasts ) in high definition.

For example, although a couple of stations owned by Four Points Media managed by Nexstar had already been airing high-definition newscasts ( though the upgrades occurred prior to Nexstar taking over operations of the stations ) and at least one Nexstar duopoly has been airing newscasts in enhanced definition widescreen, it wasn't until April 2011 that the first Nexstar-owned properties began airing newscasts in high definition under its own stewardship.

The station is owned by Nexstar Broadcasting Group of Irving, Texas, which operates local ABC affiliate WAWV-TV ( channel 38 ), through a joint sales agreement with owner Mission Broadcasting.

Deerfield Media also plans to acquire KBTV-TV, a Fox affiliate in Beaumont, Texas, from Nexstar.

In March 2010, Yoshiki filed a lawsuit against Nexstar Corporation, for 375 million yen in damages.

The claim states that after X Japan reunited, they entered a contract with Nexstar Corporation in January 2008, which included the use of some recordings.

However, Nexstar continues to control WYOU's operations through a joint sales agreement.

Despite this, no effort from Nexstar has been made to bring back any of the repeaters.

In the mid-1990s, the station briefly surpassed long-dominant WNEP, then fell again to second after the sale to Nexstar.