Fox Television Stations, Inc. (FTS) has completed the previously announced swap of a Memphis and a Boston station for two San Francisco-Bay Area stations, KTVU-TV FOX 2 and KICU-TV 36.
The swap agreement was with Cox Media Group (CMG), which in return gets two owned and operated stations, WHBQ-TV FOX 13 (Memphis) and WFXT-TV FOX 25 (Boston). Both stations remain Fox affiliates.
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FTS now includes duopolies in seven of the top 10 U.S. markets — New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, Washington, D.C. and Houston — and owns stations in 12 markets with NFL National Football Conference (NFC) teams, allowing it to further leverage the company’s NFC broadcast package.