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| Formerly | Glencairn, Ltd. (1994–2001) |
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| Company type | Private |
| Industry | Broadcast media |
| Founded | 1994 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Founder | Edwin Edwards |
| Headquarters | , |
| Parent | Sinclair Broadcast Group |
| Website | cunninghambroadcasting |
Cunningham Broadcasting Corporation is an owner of broadcast television stations in the United States. The company currently owns fifteen stations – eight affiliated with Fox, three affiliated with The CW, two affiliated with ABC, and two affiliated with MyNetworkTV.
Cunningham has very close ties to the Sinclair Broadcast Group. All but two of the Cunningham stations are operated by Sinclair under local marketing agreements (the exceptions are WTAT-TV, which Cunningham operates directly with no involvement from Sinclair outside of a news-share agreement with a Sinclair-owned station in its market, and WYZZ-TV, which is operated by Nexstar Media Group). In addition, over 90 percent of Cunningham's stock is controlled by trusts in the name of Sinclair founder Julian Smith's children. Based on these arrangements, Cunningham appears to be a shell corporation that Sinclair uses to circumvent Federal Communications Commission regulations on television station ownership.[1]
- ^ SinclairWatch.org Archived July 20, 2006, at the Wayback Machine