Editing LIN Media (section)

{{Short description|American communications company, 1994–2014}}
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{{Infobox company
| name = LIN Media, LLC
| logo = LIN Media.svg
| logo_size = 175px
| type = [[Public company|Public]]
| traded_as = [[NYSE]]: LIN
| industry = {{ubl|[[Terrestrial television|Broadcast television]]|[[Production company|Television production]]}}
| fate = Merged with [[Media General]]
| predecessor = {{ubl|LIN Broadcasting|LIN TV Corporation|[[New Vision Television]]}}
| successor = {{ubl|[[Media General]]|[[Nexstar Media Group]]}}
| founded = {{Start date and age|1994}}<ref name=nyt-lintvformed>{{cite news|title=Lin Television in Deal|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/30/business/lin-television-in-deal.html|access-date=February 17, 2013|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=December 30, 1994|quote=The newly formed Lin Television Corporation…part of the previously announced transfer of ownership of Lin Television by the Lin Broadcasting Corporation to its shareholders.}}</ref>
| defunct = {{End date and age|2014|12|19}}
| location = [[Providence, Rhode Island]]<br>[[Austin, Texas]]
| area_served = United States (Nationwide)
| key_people = [[Vincent L. Sadusky]] {{small|(CEO)}}
| products = [[Broadcast television]]
| revenue = {{profit}} $443.5&nbsp;million USD
| operating_income = {{profit}} $247.44&nbsp;million USD
| net_income = {{loss}} $274.5&nbsp;million USD
| owner = [[HM Capital Partners]] (70%)<!--Voting power--><ref>{{cite web|title=LIN TV 2012 Annual Report- SEC Filings|url=http://services.corporate-ir.net/SEC/Document.Service?id=P3VybD1odHRwOi8vaXIuaW50Lndlc3RsYXdidXNpbmVzcy5jb20vZG9jdW1lbnQvdjEvMDAwMTA0NzQ2OS0xMi0wMDI3NTYvZG9jL0xJTk1lZGlhXzEwS18yMDEyMDMxNS5wZGYmdHlwZT0yJmZuPUxJTk1lZGlhXzEwS18yMDEyMDMxNS5wZGY=|publisher=LIN TV|access-date=October 6, 2012}}{{Dead link|date=May 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
| num_employees = 2,414 (full-time)
| subsid = {{ubl|[[LIN Digital]]|[[Station Venture Holdings]] (20.38%)}}
}}

[[Image:LIN TV.png|150px|thumb|right|The former LIN TV logo.]]

'''LIN Media''' was an American [[holding company]] founded in 1994<ref name=nyt-lintvformed/> that operated 43 television stations. All except one were [[affiliates]] of the [[television in the United States#Major broadcast networks|six major U.S. television networks]]. One of the remaining stations was a low-powered weather station in Indiana.

LIN Media's chief executive officer was Vincent L. Sadusky. Sadusky had been LIN's chief financial officer, Vice President and treasurer since 2004, and had been CFO for [[Telemundo]], working closely on its sale to [[General Electric|GE]]/[[NBC]]. Sadusky had been interim CEO since former chairman Gary R. Chapman announced his impending retirement in June 2006, and through the company's search for a permanent replacement. He was installed as CEO upon Chapman's retirement on July 10, 2006.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6352368.html?display=Breaking+News&referral=SUPP&nid=2228 |title=LIN Taps Sandusky as CEO|last=Romano |first=Allison |date=July 13, 2006 |work=[[Broadcasting & Cable]]  |access-date=August 11, 2009}}</ref>