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Hoak Media Corporation
Industry	Media
Founded	August 2003
Founder	James M. Hoak, Jr. and; Eric D. Van den Branden;
Defunct	June 13, 2014; (most stations); December 1, 2015; (officially);
Fate	Acquired by Gray Television
Successor	Gray Television
Headquarters	Dallas, Texas
Services	Broadcast television

Hoak Media Corporation was a broadcast media company based in Dallas, Texas. Hoak once owned eighteen television stations (including satellites), all in medium and small-markets, mostly in the Great Plains states and Colorado. Hoak Media was established in August 2003.

On November 20, 2013, Gray Television announced that it would purchase Hoak Media and Parker Broadcasting, excluding KREX (and its satellites), KFQX and WMBB (which could not be sold to Gray as it already owned stations in the markets affected), and as well as KAUZ-TV. Some of Hoak's stations were originally going to be sold to Excalibur Broadcasting and they would have been operated by Gray under local marketing agreements.^[1] On December 19, it was announced that KREX and WMBB would be sold to Nexstar Broadcasting Group, while KFQX would be sold to Mission Broadcasting.^[2]

The sale was completed on June 13, 2014. However, some stations were forced to go off the air and their programming was moved to subchannels of Gray-owned stations (and in Hastings, Nebraska, from KHAS-TV to KSNB-TV with KSNB-TV's existing programming moving to a subchannel), due to some stations unable to receive regulatory approval after the FCC's then-recent ruling on joint sales agreements. Those silent stations were later sold off to minority interests.^[3]^[4]

On August 10, 2015, Hoak announced it would sell its last remaining station, KAUZ-TV (which was not included in the sale of most of Hoak's other stations to Gray Television, and of which was originally going to be sold to KAUZ Media, Inc.), to American Spirit Media (a Charlotte, North Carolina–based company headed by Thomas B. Henson) and would be operated under a shared services agreement by Raycom Media as a result of that company's acquisition of Drewry Communications (which had operated KAUZ-TV under a joint sales agreement since 2009). The sale was completed on December 1,^[5] completing the disestablishment of Hoak.

Former stations

Stations are arranged alphabetically by state and by city of license.

City of license / Market	Station	Channel	Years owned	Current status
Grand Junction, CO	KFQX	4	2003–2014^[a]	Fox affiliate owned by Mission Broadcasting^[b]
	KREX-TV	5	2003–2014	CBS affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group
	KGJT-CD	27	2003–2014	MyNetworkTV affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group
Glenwood Springs, CO	KREG-TV^[α]	3	2003–2014	MeTV owned-and-operated (O&O) by Weigel Broadcasting
Montrose, CO	KREY^[α]	10	2003–2014	CBS affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group
Panama City, FL	WMBB	13	2008–2014	ABC affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group
Alexandria, LA	KALB-TV	5	2008–2014	NBC affiliate owned by Gray Television
Monroe, LA	KNOE-TV	8	2007–2014	CBS affiliate owned by Gray Television
Monroe, LA	KAQY	11	2008–2014^[a]	MeTV affiliate KMLU, owned by Legacy Broadcasting
Hastings, NE	KHAS-TV	5	2005–2014	The CW affiliate KNHL, owned by Gray Television
North Platte, NE	KNOP-TV	2	2005–2014	NBC affiliate owned by Gray Television
North Platte, NE	K11TW	11	2005–2014	Fox affiliate KIIT-CD, owned by Gray Television
Bismarck, ND	KFYR-TV	5	2007–2014	NBC affiliate owned by Gray Television
Dickinson, ND	KQCD-TV^[β]	7	2007–2014	NBC affiliate owned by Gray Television
Minot, ND	KMOT^[β]	10	2007–2014	NBC affiliate owned by Gray Television
Williston, ND	KUMV-TV^[β]	8	2007–2014	NBC affiliate owned by Gray Television
Fargo, ND	KXJB-TV	4	2007–2014^[a]	KRDK-TV, owned by Major Market Broadcasting
Fargo, ND	KVLY-TV	11	2007–2014	NBC affiliate owned by Gray Television
Sioux Falls, SD	KSFY-TV	13	2007–2014	ABC affiliate owned by Gray Television
Aberdeen, SD	KABY-TV^[γ]	9	2007–2014	Defunct, license cancelled in 2018
Pierre, SD	KPRY-TV^[γ]	4	2007–2014	ABC affiliate owned by Gray Television
Wichita Falls, TX	KAUZ-TV	6	2003–2015^[c]	CBS affiliate owned by American Spirit Media^[d]

Carriage with Dish Network

On June 5, 2012, all of Hoak's stations were pulled from Dish Network after they failed to renew a carriage agreement. The refusal to renew reportedly surrounds Dish Network's "Hopper" digital video recorder and its controversial commercial-skipping feature AutoHop—which has also led to complaints from the major U.S. television networks. Dish Network's senior vice president of programming scolded the company for its decision to pull its channels from the service, believing that their decision disrespects "customer control" over programming.^[6]^[7]