ACME Communications

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ACME Communications (NASDAQ: ACME) is a television broadcasting company that owns seven television stations. Six stations are CW Television Network affiliates. The seventh, part of a duopoly in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is a MyNetworkTV affiliate. ACME Communications also produces the national television show The Daily Buzz. The show is currently produced out of a studio inside Full Sail Real World Education in Winter Park, Florida.

On June 20, 2007 GOCOM Media announced their purchase of WBUI-TV in Decatur, Illinois From ACME Communications.[1]

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[edit] Name

Acme Communications was founded by Jamie Kellner former FOX executive and CEO of the WB. He used the name Acme as a play on the Warner Brothers cartoon the Road Runner and Coyote where the Coyote was always purchasing equipment from a company called Acme ^[1]

[edit] Television Stations

[edit] Currently Owned Stations

DMA Rank	Market	Station ... Channel	Network	Acquired
44.	Albuquerque - Sante Fe - Roswell	KWBQ 19 (29) / KRWB-TV 21	The CW	1999
44.	Albuquerque - Sante Fe - Roswell	KASY 50 (45)	MyNetworkTV	2000
58.	Knoxville	WBXX-TV 20 (50)¹	The CW	1997
62.	Dayton - Springfield	WBDT 26 (18)	The CW	1999
70.	Green Bay - Appleton - Fox Cities	WIWB 14 (21)	The CW	1999
85.	Madison	WBUW 57 (32)	The CW	2002

[edit] Formerly Owned Stations

DMA Rank	Market	Station ... Channel	Years Owned	Currently
21.	St. Louis	KPLR-TV 11²	1997-2003	Owned by Tribune Company
23.	Portland - Salem	KWBP 32²	1997-2003	KRCW-TV owned by Tribune Company
35.	Salt Lake City - St. George - Provo - Ogden - Orem	KUWB 30²	1999-2006	KUCW owned by Clear Channel (Sale to Providence Equity Partners pending)
63.	Fort Myers - Naples	WTVK 46²	1990s-2007	WXCW owned by Sun Broadcasting (Shared Services Agreement with CBS affiliate WINK-TV)
84.	Champaign - Urbana - Decatur - Springfield	WBUI 23²	1999-2007	Owned by GOCOM Media of Illinois, LLC