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The Dispatch Broadcast Group was a media company based in Columbus, Ohio. The group was a division of the Dispatch Printing Company, former owner of the Columbus Dispatch, and was owned by the Wolfe family since 1929 until its sale to Tegna Inc. in mid-2019. The Dispatch Broadcast Group included the WBNS television (CBS-affiliate WBNS-TV) and radio (WBNS (AM) and WBNS-FM) stations in Columbus, the Ohio News Network, and NBC-affiliate WTHR television in Indianapolis formerly (WLW-I) which was purchased in 1975.

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rdfs:label	Dispatch Broadcast Group (en)
rdfs:comment	The Dispatch Broadcast Group was a media company based in Columbus, Ohio. The group was a division of the Dispatch Printing Company, former owner of the Columbus Dispatch, and was owned by the Wolfe family since 1929 until its sale to Tegna Inc. in mid-2019. The Dispatch Broadcast Group included the WBNS television (CBS-affiliate WBNS-TV) and radio (WBNS (AM) and WBNS-FM) stations in Columbus, the Ohio News Network, and NBC-affiliate WTHR television in Indianapolis formerly (WLW-I) which was purchased in 1975. (en)
foaf:name	Dispatch Broadcast Group (en)
name	Dispatch Broadcast Group (en)
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dct:subject	Tegna Inc. Dispatch Broadcast Group 2019 mergers and acquisitions Mass media companies disestablished in 2019 1929 establishments in Ohio 2019 disestablishments in Ohio Companies based in the Columbus, Ohio metropolitan area Defunct broadcasting companies of the United States
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Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	Tegna Inc. United States Indianapolis Business Journal Public company Columbus, Ohio NBC Broadcast television CBS Tribune Media WBNS-FM WBNS-TV WBNS (AM) WTHR Dispatch Broadcast Group 2019 mergers and acquisitions Mass media companies disestablished in 2019 1929 establishments in Ohio 2019 disestablishments in Ohio Radio Tegna Inc. Companies based in the Columbus, Ohio metropolitan area Defunct broadcasting companies of the United States Indianapolis Nexstar Media Group Ohio Central Indiana Central Ohio Ohio News Network Dispatch Printing Company Columbus Dispatch
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area served	Central Indiana Central Ohio
defunct	2019-08-08 (xsd:date)
fate	Acquired by Tegna (en)
founded	1929 (xsd:integer)
hq location city	Columbus, Ohio Ohio
hq location country	United States
industry	Broadcast television and radio production (en)
parent	Dispatch Printing Company
type	Public company
has abstract	The Dispatch Broadcast Group was a media company based in Columbus, Ohio. The group was a division of the Dispatch Printing Company, former owner of the Columbus Dispatch, and was owned by the Wolfe family since 1929 until its sale to Tegna Inc. in mid-2019. The Dispatch Broadcast Group included the WBNS television (CBS-affiliate WBNS-TV) and radio (WBNS (AM) and WBNS-FM) stations in Columbus, the Ohio News Network, and NBC-affiliate WTHR television in Indianapolis formerly (WLW-I) which was purchased in 1975. On April 24, 2013, former WBNS-TV news director John Cardenas was named president and general manager of the station and vice president of broadcast news for the Dispatch Broadcast Group. On December 7, 2018, Dispatch Broadcast Group president and WTHR general manager Larry Delia commented to the Indianapolis Business Journal that the company may consider buying divested Nexstar Media Group stations as Nexstar readies to buy Tribune Media. On June 11, 2019, it was reported the Dispatch Broadcast Group had sold its television and radio assets to Tegna Inc. for the sale price of $535 million. The sale was completed on August 8. (en)
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fate	Acquired byTegna (en)
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industry	Broadcast television Radio
location city	Columbus, Ohio

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