

MARQUEE TV LICENSE
Stations Current City of license / market On April 20, 2022, it was announced that Southeastern Ohio Broadcasting Corporation will sell their TV station WHIZ-TV, along with radio stations WHIZ, WHIZ-FM, and WZVL to Marquee Broadcasting for an undisclosed amount. On August 16, 2018, Gray Television announced that it would sell WSWG, the CBS affiliate for Albany, Georgia, to Marquee Marquee intends to combine WSST and WSWG's operations. The sale is expected to be approved by the FCC and close by the end of Fall 2018. On June 18, 2018, Marquee agreed to purchase WSST-TV in Cordele, Georgia from Sunbelt-South Communications, Ltd. On April 5, 2017, Max Media announced that it entered an agreement to sell NBC affiliate WNKY in Bowling Green, Kentucky to Marquee. In May 2016, Nexstar Broadcasting Group announced its sale of KREG-TV to Marquee Broadcasting. Following the acquisition, the station's primary affiliation changed to Heroes & Icons and changed its callsign to WGTA. The company's next acquisition came in 2015 when it closed its acquisition of WUGA-TV from the University of Georgia for $2.5 million. I’ve been talking about Big Tech strip-mining our creative industries for two decades, and frankly at first what drove me was an urgent need to warn people not to sleepwalk into oblivion! Now that we’ve found a model with purpose I’m focused on rolling it out to as many verticals as we can around the world and working with the best teams in the business.Marquee began in 2013 when its owners, Brian and Patricia Lane, announced its intent to acquire WMDT and its repeater, WEVD-LP for $9 million. What keeps you thriving as a business and as a business leader in this space? But if you build a global membership brand with a million passionate arts lovers, or country music fans, or adventure sports addicts, then you have a very valuable model that is also a force for good in that sector. In YouTube and Instagram terms a million subscribers is nothing. While the media sector is consolidating to compete with Big Tech, we’re focused at the other end of the spectrum by building vertical brands, powered by technology, that speak to people’s passions. Silicon Valley has eaten our creative industries alive, so I set up Maidthorn to help us fight back. Second, many partners wanted to stream performances as pay-per-view events to maximise revenues, so we’ve made events and seasons a core part of our proposition for both partners and audiences.


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The Marquee TV app is free anyway, so we were delighted to include more content in front of the paywall. Marquee TV Today at 8:15 AM Happy Opening Night to the cast of the Nureyev Legend and Legacy Ga.la Nureyev Legend and Legacyaudiences will enjoy a programme of dazzling performances representing highlights in Nureyev’s career, performed by an international cast of dancers at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. First, some of our partners wanted to offer free content to stay in touch with their audiences. In the pandemic we saw two interesting trends. In terms of the business model, it’s fundamentally the same – an ‘all you can eat’ subscription, like Netflix, that gives our members unlimited access to the greatest performing arts in the world. Yes, I’m definitely not the arts guy in the team! Fortunately we have a wonderful editorial team who look after all the content curation for Marquee TV. Has your business model changed at all since the pandemic and the shift towards digital content? You describe yourself as the ‘business guy’ in the team, developing the business model. We had a chat with founder Simon Walker about the business of streaming the arts and partnering with arts organisations to bring a global audience to their performances. Marquee TV has been streaming live art and culture for 3 years.
