September 1996
Lockwood purchases religious independent station WLYJ-TV (now WVFX) in Clarksburg, West Virginia
September 1996
April 1997
Lockwood acquires Norfolk, Virginia religious independent station WJCB-TV (now WPXV-TV).
April 1997
July 1997
Lockwood buys The WB affiliate WAWB in Richmond, Virginia from Bell Broadcasting changing the call letters to WUPV.
July 1997
December 1997
Paxson Communications purchases religious independent station WJCB-TV (now WPXV-TV) from Lockwood
December 1997
1998
Lockwood purchases ABC affiliate KTEN in Denison, TX becoming exclusively an NBC affiliate after the acquisition of the station.
1998
May 2004
Lockwood purchases UPN affiliate WHDF in Huntsville, Alabama.
May 2004
January 2006
The UPN and WB networks announced that they would merge into a new network called The CW Television Network.
January 2006
April 2006
Lockwood announces that they have signed affiliation deals with The CW to become affiliates of the newly combined network.
April 2006
September 2006
WUPV joins the CW. Lockwood sells the station to Southeastern Media Holdings.
September 2006
May 2007
Lockwood Broadcast acquires CW affiliate WQCW in Huntington, West Virginia from Commonwealth Broadcasting
May 2007
May 2011
Lockwood Broadcast purchases Knoxville, Tennessee’s WBXX-TV from ACME Communications
May 2011
November 2012
Lockwood Broadcast Group entered into an agreement to purchase Daystar affiliate WMAK from Word of God Fellowship while at the same filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission to change the station’s call letters to WKNX-TV.
November 2012
December 2012
The FCC approved the sale of WMAK to Lockwood Broadcast
December 2012
February 2013
Lockwood takes control of the WMAK, which converted to an independent television station with general entertainment programming format its branding was also changed to “WKNX, The Knox”.
February 2013
September 2013
Lockwood acquires CW affiliate WCWG in Lexington, North Carolina from Titan Broadcasting
September 2013
November 2013
Lockwood purchases a 51% stake in WSKY-TV, a full-power independent television station currently owned by Sky Television, LLC
November 2013
April 2014
Lockwood sells WQCW to Gray Television
April 2014
October 2015
Lockwood acquires KAKE-TV in Wichita, Kansas in a deal that includes WBXX-TV
October 2015
April 2017
Lockwood wins FCC Spectrum Auction bid option for WCWG to go off-air
April 2017
February 2018
Lockwood sells WCWG license and assets to Hearst Television
February 2018
November 2018
Lockwood agrees to sell WHDF to Nexstar Media Group
November 2018
January 2019
Lockwood purchases four Fox affiliates WTNZ in Knoxville, Tennessee; WFXG in Augusta, Georgia; WPGX in Panama City, Florida; and WDFX-TV in Dothan, Alabama from Gray Television.
January 2019
January 2020
Lockwood acquires Charlottesville, Virginia stations WCAV (CBS and FOX) and WVAW (ABC) from Gray Television.
January 2020