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WXXA-DT began airing on VHF channel 7 on December 20, 2005. A combination of objections from analog co-channels [[WABC-TV]] (in New York City) and [[WWNY-TV]] (in [[Watertown (city), New York|Watertown]]), whose signals reach the fringes of the Albany area, was the primary reason for the late and delayed sign-on. On April 20, 2007, Clear Channel entered into an agreement to sell its entire television station group to [[Providence Equity Partners]]' [[Newport Television]] (the deal closed in March 2008).
On July 19, 2012, Newport Television announced the sale of 22 of its 27 stations to the [[Nexstar Media Group|Nexstar Broadcasting Group]], [[Sinclair Broadcast Group]] and [[Cox Media Group]].<ref>[http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/60876/newport-sells-22-stations-for-1-billion Newport Sells 22 Stations For $1 Billion], ''TVNewsCheck'', July 19, 2012.</ref> While most of WXXA-TV's New York State sisters were sold to Nexstar, that company opted not to buy channel 23; Sinclair could not purchase WXXA-TV because it already owned WRGB and [[The CW|CW]] affiliate [[WCWN]] (channel 45). While Nexstar and Sinclair passed on buying WXXA, the station eventually found a new owner on July 27, 2012, when Newport Television announced the sale of the station to Shield Media, LLC (owned by
On November 8, 2013, [[Media General]] shareholders approved the company's merger with New Young Broadcasting, which was completed on November 12.<ref name=tvnc-youngmgcomplete>{{cite news|title=Media General, Young Now Officially One|url=http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/71928/media-general-young-now-officially-one|access-date=November 12, 2013|newspaper=TVNewsCheck|date=November 12, 2013}}</ref> The merged company kept the Media General name, and continued its agreements with Shield Media. More than two years later, on January 27, 2016, it was announced that the Nexstar Broadcasting Group would buy Media General for $4.6 billion. The operations of WXXA and outright ownership of WTEN became part of "Nexstar Media Group."<ref>[http://www.mediageneral.com/press/2016/jan27_2016nexs.html Shareholders of Both Companies to Realize Immediate and Long-Term Value] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160130083411/http://www.mediageneral.com/press/2016/jan27_2016nexs.html |date=January 30, 2016 }} © 2016 Media General. All rights reserved.</ref> Upon the sale's closure on January 17, 2017, the deal reunited WXXA with its former Newport sister stations that were sold to Nexstar in 2012.
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