Montecito Broadcast Group
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Montecito Broadcast Group, LLC is an American holding company that operates television stations with most of its operations centered largely west of the Mississippi River. The company was originally founded in 1984 as SJL Broadcast Management, renaming itself in 1996 as SJL Communications and in 2000 as SJL Broadcasting (coinciding with their purchase of Gateway Communications). The company was reincorporated in October 2005 when SJL partnered with investment firm Blackstone Group to purchase four stations from Emmis Communications. The company is based in Montecito, California and is headed by George Lilly who was the head of the original consortium that formed the original SJL group.
Montecito maintains a unique relationship with Lilly Communications in that the latter company was founded and is primarily owned by Brian Lilly, son of George Lilly. WSEE, Lilly's station in Erie, Pennsylvania, is controlled in part by Montecito's WICU.
[edit] Stations currently owned by Montecito
| Current DMA# | Market | Station | Channel (DT) | Current Affiliation | Acquired | Notes |
| 23. | Portland, Oregon | KOIN | 6 (40) | CBS | 2006 | |
| 67. | Wichita / Hutchinson, Kansas | KSNW | 3 (45) | NBC | 2006 | Originally owned under SJL 1988-95 |
| Great Bend / Hays / Salina, Kansas | KSNC | 2 (22) | NBC | 2006 | Satellite of KSNW | |
| Garden City / Dodge City, Kansas | KSNG | 11 (16) | NBC | 2006 | Satellite of KSNW | |
| McCook, Nebraska / Colby / Goodland, Kansas | KSNK | 8 (12) | NBC | 2006 | Satellite of KSNW | |
| 72. | Honolulu, Hawaii | KHON-TV | 2 (22) | Fox/(CW on DT2) | 2006 | |
| Hilo, Hawaii | KHAW-TV | 11 (21) | Fox | 2006 | Satellite of KHON-TV | |
| Maui | KAII-TV | 7 (39) | Fox | 2006 | Satellite of KHON-TV | |
| Kauai | K55DZ | 55 (None) | Fox | 2006 | Satellite of KHON-TV | |
| 138. | Topeka, Kansas | KSNT | 27 (28) | NBC/(CW on DT2) | 2006 | Originally owned under SJL 1988-95 |
| 142. | Erie, Pennsylvania | WICU-TV | 12 (52) | NBC | 1996 | Controls CBS affiliate WSEE and CW cable representative "WBEP" |
| WSEE | 35 (16) | CBS (CW on DT2) | NA | Owned by Lilly Broadcasting, controlled by WICU via shared services agreement |
