NBC affiliate for all but five years of its history prior to its sale to ABC, with primary CBS affiliation from 1955-58 and primary ABC affiliation from 1958-69). The remaining former Storer television stations and Blair were sold to Gillett Communications in 1987 after an aborted 1986 attempt to sell them together with Wometco's WTVJ in Miami to Lorimar-Telepictures. (WTVJ eventually became an NBC owned-and-operated station.) SCI Holdings (the holding company for Storer Communications, Inc) had placed up the cable unit, which was Storer Cable up for sale that year. Storer later revoked the no sale decision for the cable business, choosing to keep the Storer Cable division instead. Gillett's broadcasting division was restructured into SCI Television in 1991, then sold to New World Communications in 1993, after a speculative bid from Scripps-Howard that never came to fruition, due to the number of stations that would have been potentially owned at the same time. Blair was then folded into New World's distribution arm. Fox Television Stations purchased the stations (except for WSBK and KNSD) in 1997. Most of the stations switched to Fox affiliation, resulting in CBS scrambling to find affiliates in Atlanta, Cleveland, Detroit and Milwaukee, and eventually landing UHF stations in those cities. WSBK remained independent and was sold to Viacom, and eventually became a UPN affiliate. KNSD, which remained an NBC affiliate, was later sold directly to NBC to become an NBC owned-and-operated station. The cable assets were sold to Comcast Corporation and TCI in 1988. Michael Tallent became President of Storer, succeeding Kenneth Bagwell, upon the consummation of this transaction. Storer Communications continued to operate as a cable television company until the assets were split between Comcast and TCI in the mid-1990s. Tallent joined Comcast in 1991 and was succeeded by William Whelan, Storer's final president. Stations formerly owned by Storer Television stations Stations are arranged in alphabetical order by state and city of license. Note: two boldface asterisks appearing following a station's call letters (**) indicate a station that was built and/or signed-on by Storer. Radio stations References Defunct broadcasting companies of the United States Defunct radio broadcasting companies of the United States Defunct companies based in Ohio Boston Bruins owners Mass media companies established in 1927 Mass media companies disestablished in 1986 Comcast 1927 establishments in Ohio