White Knight Broadcasting

White Knight Broadcasting is a company based in Lafayette, Louisiana. It is a shell company for the Communications Corporation of America (ComCorp), owning seven ComCorp-controlled stations, all based in Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi. It was founded in 1995.

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Background

Silver Point Capital is the parent company of White Knight Broadcasting, ComCorp, and Granite Broadcasting Corporation. They also operate chain of Spanish-language television stations acquired at auction from the troubled Equity Media Holdings in 2009. The head of Silver Point Capital is Sheldon Galloway, whose father Thomas is the head of ComCorp.

Television

White Knight owns or operates seven stations:

It also previously owned KKWB (now KTFN) in El Paso, Texas. The station, a WB affiliate at the time, was sold in 2002 to Entravision Communications, which converted the station to TeleFutura.

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