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**FILE** The headquarters for Sinclair Broadcast Group in Hunt Valley, Md., is seen here in 2004. (Associated Press)

Sinclair to purchase Allbritton broadcast empire

By Annie Z. Yu - The Washington Times

This image released by ABC7/WJLA-TV and News Channel 8, shows Joe Allbritton, founder of Allbrittion Communications. Allbritton, who became one of Washington's most influential men by building media and banking empires, died at the age of 87, on Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012, at a hospital in Houston, where he lived. His holdings include eight television stations, including WJLA, the ABC affiliate in Washington whose call letters bear his initials. (AP Photo/ABC7/WJLA-TV and News Channel 8)

Joe Allbritton, 87, D.C. media, banking giant, dies

By Matthew Barakat - Associated Press