DuJuan McCoy Named 2024 Indiana Small Business Person Of The Year By SBA

DuJuan McCoy, owner/president/CEO of Circle City Broadcasting (owner of WISH and WNDY Indianapolis) has been awarded the 2024 Small Business Person of the Year for the state of Indiana by the U.S. Small Business Administration. […]

DuJuan McCoy Elected NAB Leadership Foundation Board Chair

Circle City Broadcasting Owner, President and CEO DuJuan McCoy has been elected chair of the NAB Leadership Foundation (NABLF) board of directors. McCoy assumes the seat previously occupied by Darrell […]

Circle City Broadcasting’s ‘Life.Style.Live!’ Makes Syndication Debut In 21 Markets

Circle City Broadcasting Entertainment’s Life.Style.Live! is now available to viewers in major metropolitan areas and beyond. The Indianapolis-based show can now be viewed for free on stations in 21 markets across […]

National Support For Multicultural Media Producing Program

DuJuan McCoy, owner-president-CEO of Circle City Broadcasting (owner of WISH-WNDY Indianapolis), announced that the National Association of Broadcasters Leadership Foundation (NABLF) and CBS News and Stations have joined in supporting […]

Retrans Tussle Breaks Out At FCC Symposium

The FCC’s Diversity Symposium on Feb. 7 turned into a retransmission consent showdown for a little while. Perhaps that is to be expected given that the first panel featured the chair of ACA Connects as well as the CEO of Circle City Broadcasting, which is suing DirecTV and Dish Network over retrans.

Circle City Broadcasting Launches College-Level News Production Program

DuJuan McCoy, owner, president and CEO of Circle City Broadcasting, is behind the Multicultural Media Producing Program (MMPP), a one-year certificate program at Ivy Tech Community College in Indianapolis that’s focused on producing local news. The program is a partnership between the DuJuan and Tina McCoy Foundation, Circle City Broadcasting and JP Morgan Chase Foundation.

Circle City Broadcasting Adds Civil Rights Attorney Cyrus Mehri To Litigation Team

DuJuan McCoy, owner, president and CEO of Circle City Broadcasting, announced today that famed civil rights attorney Cyrus Mehri of Mehri & Skalet (M&S) has joined Mr. McCoy’s litigation team in his race […]

DuJuan McCoy Establishes Big Data Company

DuJuan McCoy, owner, president and CEO of Circle City Broadcasting (parent company of Indianapolis duopoly WISH (CW) and WNDY (MNT), has teamed up with data scientist and co-founder Roosevelt Smith to launch eMedia Augmentation […]

Multicultural News Network Lands Distribution Deal With Charter

The upcoming 24-hour news network for multicultural communities has a multi-year nationwide linear distribution agreement that will make it available to Charter’s Spectrum customers upon the network’s commercial launch.

McCoy, CMG To Launch Multicultural News Network

DuJuan McCoy’s Circle City Broadcasting teams with Cox Media Group and Circle City Broadcasting to offer “an unbiased national forum for the voices of America’s underserved multicultural communities” beginning next year.

Rebecca Hanson, DuJuan McCoy Join NAB TV Board

Rebecca Hanson, executive vice president and general counsel for HC2 Broadcasting, and DuJuan McCoy, owner of Circle City Broadcasting, were appointed to the NAB Television Board of Directors by NAB […]

DMA 25: INDIANAPOLIS

WISH Looking To Hire Multicultural Reporter

Under new management led by DuJuan McCoy, the Indianapolis CW affiliate is looking to hire a reporter “dedicated exclusively to covering multicultural issues within the Indiana community.”

DMAS 103 & 121

Byron Allen Buying Bayou City TVs For $165M

The Entertainment Studios CEO’s Allen Media is getting CBS, NBC and Fox affiliates in Evansville, Ind., and Lafayette, La.

DMA 28

Nexstar Selling Two Indianapolis TVs For $42.5M

The agreement with DuJuan McCoy’s new Circle City Broadcasting I marks the completion of Nexstar’s divestiture plan to secure approvals for its Tribune Media purchase. The total gross proceeds from the planned sale of the 21 stations being divested amounts to $1.36 billion.

Three Join Broadcasters Foundation Board

The Broadcasters Foundation of America has elected to its board of directors Kim Guthrie, president of Cox Media Group, and DuJuan McCoy, president-CEO-founder of Bayou City Broadcasting, and named Julie Talbott, president of Premiere […]

DMA 103 (EVANSVILLE, IN)

McCoy’s WEVV To Debut News On Monday

On Aug. 3, WEVV, the CBS and Fox affiliates in Evansville, Ind., is launching a local TV news operation from scratch, going up against already established local TV newscasts from both the NBC and ABC affiliates in town.

TVNEWSCHECK PROFILE

DuJuan Is The Real McCoy Station Owner

After DuJuan McCoy paid his dues in local TV sales positions — “I believe sales is the crux of communication,” he says — he is now building a station group of his own, starting with his $18.6 million purchase of WEVV Evansville, Ind. The African-American entrepreneur believes adding news adds value to stations and he thinks he has a responsibility to “lay down groundwork for future minorities so that there’s some type of track record of success with minorities running television stations. That’s a responsibility that I think I have.”

COMMENTARY BY DUJUAN MCCOY

Don’t Bet Against Local Broadcast TV

Bayou City Broadcasting CEO DuJuan McCoy: “Broadcasting is a remarkably resilient business that remains an essential news and entertainment platform for America. The broadcast television industry is led by great companies that are disparate in parts but collaborative in vision. We have strong leaders, great advocates, game-changing visionaries and experienced winners who are vigorously committed to preserving and improving our business for the long haul.”

DMAS 197 & 164

McCoy Makes Temporary Exit With TV Sale

London Broadcasting adds to its Texas holdings with Fox affiliates in San Angelo and Abilene, plus some LPTVs. But seller DuJuan McCoy isn’t leaving the business. He’s ready to move up-market.

DuJuan McCoy Appointed To NAB TV Board

NAB Television Board Chair Marci Burdick has appointed DuJuan McCoy to the NAB Television Board of Directors effective this June. McCoy will assume the seat of Madelyn Bonnot Griffin when […]