Citadel Communications

Citadel Communications
Citadel Communications Ltd.
Type Private
Industry Broadcast Television
Television Production
Founded 1982
Headquarters Bronxville, New York
Area served Flag of the United States.svg United States (Midwest, Northeast, and Southeast)
Key people Philip J. Lombardo, Founder/CEO
Ray Cole, President/COO
Products Broadcast television
Website www.citadelltd.com

Citadel Communications Ltd. is a Bronxville, NY-based private broadcasting company that operates 5 full-power television stations and 1 low-power station. The company was founded in 1982 by former National Association of Broadcasters joint board chairman and current Broadcasters Foundation of America chairman Phil Lombardo,[1] who is also an investor in SNN Local News 6, a 24-hour cable news channel in Sarasota, Florida owned by LDB Media, LLC.[2]

All of Citadel's major network affiliates share the same branding identity. They each use a variation of the circle logo and share the same website design style. Most of their stations also carry an additional network on their digital subchannel; WOI, WHBF, and KLKN carry the Retro Television Network and KCAU carries The Local AccuWeather Channel.

For news, the stations broadcast in high-definition, have similar sets and graphics, and use the music package specified for the network they're affiliated with; the ABC affiliates use Frank Gari's Eyewitness News (ABC O&O News Collection) and the CBS affiliate uses Gari's CBS Enforcer Music Collection. For weather, their systems are usually referred to on-air as ESP: Live (Exclusive Storm Prediction). Also, until 2011, the stations signed-off overnight and did not broadcast their networks' overnight newscasts.

Recently-acquired WLNE incorporates a stylized "6" (dating back to 1994) in its version of the circle logo. Its weather system is referred to on-air as Stormtracker. Currently, it does not carry an additional network on its subchannel.

Contents

Stations

Current Citadel properties include:

City of license/Market Station Channel
TV (RF)
Translator Acquired Affiliation Notes
Ames/Des Moines, Iowa WOI-DT 5 / 5 50 1994 ABC
(RTV on DT2)
Licensed to Capital Communications Company, Inc. (joint venture with Lynch Corporation of Connecticut)[3]
Lincoln, Nebraska KLKN 8 / 8 31 1986 ABC
(RTV on DT2)
New Bedford, Massachusetts/Providence, Rhode Island WLNE-TV 6 / 49 2011[4] ABC Operates NewsChannel 5, a 24-hour cable news channel available only on Cox Cable systems in Rhode Island
Rock Island, Illinois/Quad Cities WHBF-TV 4 / 4 47 1987 CBS
(RTV on DT2)
Licensed to Coronet Communications Company
Sarasota/Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida WLWN-LP 48 2011[5] Silent, previously TBN Low-power
Sioux City, Iowa KCAU-TV 9 / 9 30 1985 ABC
(AccuWeather on DT2)

Former Citadel-owned stations

City of license/Market Station Channel
TV (RF)
Years owned Currently
Albion, Nebraska KLKE
(satellite of KLKN)
24 1996–2003 defunct, went silent in 2003
Binghamton, New York WMGC-TV
(now WIVT)
34 / 34 1986–1996 ABC affiliate owned by Newport Television
Buffalo, New York WUTV 29 / 14 1984–1990 Fox affiliate owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group
Burlington, Vermont/Plattsburgh, New York WVNY 22 / 13 1982–1996 ABC affiliate owned by Lambert Broadcasting
(operated by Smith Media under a local marketing agreement)

References

  1. ^ "NABEF Board of Directors: Philip J. Lombardo". National Association of Broadcasters Education Foundation. http://www.nabef.org/documents/board/philipLombardo.asp. Retrieved 1 May 2011. 
  2. ^ Hielscher, John (25 February 2009). "SNN set to return to the air Thursday". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20090225/ARTICLE/902250356. Retrieved 18 June 2011. 
  3. ^ "Campus Journal; Vote to Sell TV Station Splits Iowans." New York Times 22 July 1992: p17.
  4. ^ "Citadel Communications LLC, New Owner of WLNE-TV/ABC6". abc6.com. http://www.abc6.com/Global/story.asp?S=14814861. Retrieved 2 June 2011. 
  5. ^ "MMTC spinning another donated low power television". RBR.com. http://www.rbr.com/tv-cable/tv_deals/mmtc-spinning-another-donated-low-power-television.html. Retrieved 5 May 2011. 

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