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19 of the prime 20 markets, when Sinclair expects to access 62% of the U.S. 24 Sinclair Broadcast Group announces that it will market 23 tv stations that it or Tribune Media owns or operates in 18 markets, in a shift by Sinclair to seek out regulatory acceptance of its acquire of Tribune. Gray Television announces that it will purchase NBC affiliate KDLT-Tv/Sioux Falls, South Dakota, from Red River Broadcasting in an all-dollars offer truly worth $32.5 million. The purchase - which Gray states will be instantly free of charge money stream accretive - would make a authorized duopoly with primary ABC/subchannel-only CW Plus affiliate KSFY-Tv, possible marking the very first time since the FCC abolished restrictions on lawful tv duopolies dependent on the selection of unbiased owners within just a media sector in November 2017 that a smaller-market place station has fashioned a legal duopoly with a competing outlet without having the aid of a failing/failed station waiver. The sale - which is predicted to be finalized in the 2nd quarter of 2018 - will consequence in Gray right getting KGWC's intellectual unit (like programming - which will likely be merged into the spectrum of the firm's current Casper home, NBC affiliate KCWY-DT - and administrative operations) as very well as the licenses of satellites KGWR-Tv/Rock Springs and KGWL-Tv/Lander, even though the UHF channel 14 license will be donated to a non-financial gain group to be identified (which will assign a new call signal and virtual channel variety for the station).