ABC To Switch Affiliation In St. Louis, Moving From Sinclair Station To Gray Media

EXCLUSIVE: ABC is switching affiliations in the St. Louis market, with plans to move from the Sinclair-owned outlet to Gray Media, sources familiar with the plans confirmed on Thursday.

The 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’s D2 digital channel.

KDNL-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.

Such affiliation switches are not all that uncommon. Last year, the network switched from Berkshire Hathaway’s WPLG-TV in Miami to a subchannel of Sunbeam’s WSVN-TV in that market.

ABC, Gray and Sinclair have not yet commented on the plans.

Earlier on Thursday, CBS announced that it would switch affiliations from Nexstar stations in six markets, including Albuquerque.

More to come.