Smith Media

Smith Media, LLC, successor to Smith Television aka Sunrise Television, was a broadcasting group co-based in Los Angeles, California and St. Petersburg, Florida, that formerly owned and operated several television stations across the United States.

[1] In 2002, Sunrise sold six of the stations to LIN Television.

The family decided to re-capitalize their stations and sold the stations to Boston Ventures, which created Smith Media.

During the early 2010s, Smith Media sold off its stations; on October 1, 2013, Smith Media reached a deal to sell its last remaining station, WKTV in Utica, New York, to Heartland Media, a company owned by former Gray Television executive Bob Prather, pending FCC approval.

[7] Stations are arranged alphabetically by state and by city of license.