Mission Broadcasting

Mission Broadcasting, Inc.

Company type	Private
Industry	Broadcasting
Founded	1996; 28 years ago (1996)[1]
Founder	David S. Smith
Headquarters	Wichita Falls, Texas , U.S.[2]
Key people	Nancie Smith (Chairwoman) Dennis Thatcher (President)
Revenue	$51.9 million[when?]
Number of employees	39
Website	missionbroadcastinginc.com

Mission Broadcasting, Inc. is a television station group that owns 29 full-power television stations in 26 markets in the United States. The group's chair is Nancie Smith, the widow of David S. Smith, who founded the company in 1996^[3] and died in 2011. All but one of Mission's stations are located in markets where Nexstar Media Group also owns a station, and all of Mission's stations (including its lone stand-alone station) are managed by Nexstar through shared services and local marketing agreements—effectively creating duopolies between the top two stations in a market or in markets with too few stations or unique station owners to legally allow duopolies.^[4] The company moved its headquarters from Westlake, Ohio, to Wichita Falls, Texas, in 2018. The company's stations are based in markets as large as New York City and as small as Grand Junction, Colorado.