Family Group Broadcasting, L.P. was a Delaware-incorporated, Florida-based television and radio broadcasting company. A small company, based in and around Tampa Bay, the company operated from the early 1980s to about 1997. Throughout its history, it owned and/or operated several different radio and television stations – all of its television stations independents (initially), on the UHF dial east of the Mississippi River. Also, the company operated under other names and aliases such as Family Broadcasting Company, Inc., Family Group Entertainment and Family Group Ltd. III.

Many of the stations shared the same type of branding with their channel number in chrome inside a red diamond and the station's call letters in white text inside a blue parallelogram underneath, along with a common imaging theme with the name of the group in the lyrics, 'TV that's fun! We bring you...Family fun!'.

Former stations

Television stations

1 Stations built and/or signed-on by Family Group Broadcasting. 2 Family Group Broadcasting had a 50 percent stake in the station. Also, Heritage Media, then-owners of ABC affiliate WEAR-TV, took control of the station under a Local marketing agreement beginning in 1995 and lasting until 1997, when both stations and the rest of Heritage Media's television stations division were acquired by and absorbed into Sinclair Broadcast Group. 3 WLKT-TV was partially owned by Family Group Broadcasting in a "50–50" joint venture with a non-profit company, Way of the Cross, Inc. and was founded in 1983. However, the station didn't sign-on until 1988. Due to low viewership from a contract requiring Way of the Cross's religious programming to air in prime time slots, questionable reception and not being able to find a buyer, the two companies took the station off the air less than a year later and subsequently returned the license to the Federal Communications Commission. In 1999, a new low-power station took to the air on channel 62, WBLU-LP, but itself was troubled and taken off the air after being sold to Daystar in 2009.

Market StationPSIP (RF) Years owned Sold to Current status Mobile, AL – Pensacola – Fort Walton Beach, FLWFGX 35 (50) 1987–19971 2 Sinclair Broadcast Group Still owned by Sinclair as a MyNetworkTV affiliate Fort Myers – Naples – Cape Coral, FLWFTX-TV 36 (35) 1985–1986 Wabash Valley Broadcasting Fox affiliate owned by The E.W. Scripps Company Panama City, FL WPGX 28 (9) 1988–1990 Ashling Broadcasting Group Fox affiliate owned by Lockwood Broadcast Group Tampa – St. Petersburg, FL WFTS-TV 28 (17) 1981–19841 Capital Cities Communications ABC affiliate owned by The E.W. Scripps Company Rockford, IL WQRF-TV 39 (36) 1986–1989 Petracom Broadcasting Fox affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group Lexington – Fayette, KY WLKT-TV 62 1983–19893 Taken off the air Defunct in 1989, license cancelled and returned to the FCC Roanoke – Lynchburg, VA WVFT 27 (36) 1986–1991 Roanoke–Lynchburg TV Acquisition Corporation Fox affiliate, WFXR, owned by Nexstar Media Group Green Bay – Appleton, WI WGBA-TV 26 (14) 1985–1991 Aries Telecommunications NBC affiliate owned by The E.W. Scripps Company La Crosse – Eau Claire, WI WLAX 25 (17) 1986–19911 Aries Telecommunications Fox affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group

Radio stations

1 The station today, operates as a simulcast of now-sister station, WANG 1490 AM, which in turn also operates a translator, W278CE on 103.5 FM. 2 As of May 2020, the station is temporarily off the air as repairs are ongoing to its transmitter. As a result, its sports radio format is currently on WAVK 97.7 FM in the meantime. 3 The station today, operates as a simulcast of now-sister station, WFKZ 103.1 FM.

AM stations

Market Station Frequency Current Status Key West, FL WKWF 16002 CBS Sports Radio and SB Nation Radio dual affiliate owned by Spottswood Partners II, LTD Tampa – St. Petersburg, FL WQBN 1300 Spanish Variety owned by Crisbeto Enterprises Corp. Biloxi – Gulfport – Pascagoula, MS WVMI 570 Classic country as WTNI1 on 1640 owned by Telesouth Communications Beaumont – Port Arthur, TX KAYC 1450 CBS Sports Radio affiliate KIKR owned by Cumulus Media

FM stations

Market Station Frequency Current Status Key West, FL WAIL 99.5 Classic rock owned by Florida Keys Media, LLC3 Biloxi – Gulfport – Pascagoula, MS WQID 93.7 Adult Contemporary as WMJY owned by iHeartMedia Beaumont – Port Arthur, TX KAYD/KAYD-FM 97.5 ESPN Radio affiliate KFNC owned by GOW Media, LLC Charlotte Amalie, USVI WVGN 105.3 Mainstream Urban, Reggae and Calypso as WVJZ owned by Ackley Media Group External links

FCCdata.org: KFNC FCCdata.org: KIKR FCCdata.org: WAIL FCCdata.org: WFKZ FCCdata.org: WKWF FCCdata.org: WAVK FCCdata.org: WMJY FCCdata.org: WQBN FCCdata.org: WTNI FCCdata.org: WANG FCCdata.org: W278CE FCCdata.org: WVJZ FCCdata.org: WFTS-TV FCCdata.org: WFTX-TV FCCdata.org: WFGX FCCdata.org: WGBA-TV FCCdata.org: WFXR FCCdata.org: WLAX FCCdata.org: WQRF-TV FCCdata.org: WPGX

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