United Communications Corporation (UCC) was a privately owned operator of three television stations in the U.S. states of Minnesota and New York.
Founded in 1961 by the Brown family, upon its purchase of the News, the company added a Massachusetts newspaper in the 1970s, buying two competing newspapers—the Attleboro Sun and North Attleborough Chronicle—and merging them into The Sun Chronicle.
[1] UCC then entered the television business through two sales mandated by Federal Communications Commission (FCC) competition rules.
In the 21st century, UCC added its last two properties, founding WNYF-LP, a low-power television station in Watertown, New York, in 2001, and a year later buying the Watertown Public Opinion in eastern South Dakota.
[3] In March 2013, his daughter Lucy Brown Minn was named president of the company.