{"id":781317,"date":"2026-07-24T06:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T06:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/781317\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T06:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T06:27:10","slug":"abc-to-switch-affiliation-in-st-louis-moving-from-sinclair-station-to-gray-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/781317\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC To Switch Affiliation In St. Louis, Moving From Sinclair Station To Gray Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/abc\/\" id=\"auto-tag_abc\" data-tag=\"abc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABC<\/a> is switching affiliations in the St. Louis market, with plans to move from the Sinclair-owned outlet to <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/gray-media\/\" id=\"auto-tag_gray-media\" data-tag=\"gray-media\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gray Media<\/a>, sources familiar with the plans confirmed on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe change will take place on Sept. 1. Gray will provide locally produced news at its station, KMOV-TV, with ABC programming broadcasting on the outlet\u2019s D2 digital channel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/kdnl\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kdnl\" data-tag=\"kdnl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KDNL<\/a>-TV has been an ABC affiliate since 1995. Its ABC affiliation expires at the end of August, but network programming will air on the station until then.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSuch affiliation switches are not all that uncommon. Last year, the network switched from Berkshire Hathaway\u2019s WPLG-TV in Miami to a subchannel of Sunbeam\u2019s WSVN-TV in that market. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tABC, Gray and Sinclair have not yet commented on the plans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEarlier on Thursday, CBS announced <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/07\/cbs-switches-nexstar-station-affiliation-1237001956\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">that it would switch affiliations <\/a>from <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/nexstar\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nexstar\" data-tag=\"nexstar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nexstar<\/a> stations in six markets, including Albuquerque.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMore to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: ABC is switching affiliations in the St. Louis market, with plans to move from the Sinclair-owned outlet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[1855,88,40496,332655,69112,145074,92],"class_list":["post-781317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-abc","tag-entertainment","tag-gray-media","tag-kdnl","tag-nexstar","tag-sinclair-broadcast-group","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}