TRCO Tribune Media Company

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 19, 2019

Registration No. 333-221803

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE

COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1

TO

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Tribune Media Company

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (312) 222-3394.

Thomas E. Carter

Treasurer

Tribune Media Company

515 North State Street

Chicago, Illinois 60654

(312) 222-3394

(Name, address and telephone number of agent for service)

With copies to:

Peter J. Loughran, Esq.

Morgan J. Hayes, Esq.

Meir D. Katz, Esq.

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

919 Third Avenue

New York, New York 10022

(212) 909-6000

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable

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RECENT EVENTS: DEREGISTRATION

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 (this “Post-Effective Amendment”), filed by Tribune Media Company (the “Company”), removes from registration all of the unsold securities registered under the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration Number 333-221803) filed by the Company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on November 29, 2017 (the “Registration Statement”), pertaining to the registration of 14,145,447 shares of the Company’s Class A common stock, par value $0.001 per share (“Class A Common Stock”).

On September 19, 2019, pursuant to that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated November 30, 2018, by and among the Company, Nexstar Media Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Nexstar”), and Titan Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of Nexstar (“Merger Sub”), Merger Sub merged with and into the Company, with the Company continuing as the surviving corporation and as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nexstar (the “Merger”).

As a result of the Merger, the Company is terminating all offerings of its Class A Common Stock pursuant to the Registration Statement. The Company, by filing this Post-Effective Amendment, hereby terminates the effectiveness of the Registration Statement and removes from registration any and all shares of its Class A Common Stock registered but unsold under the Registration Statement as of the date hereof. This filing is made in accordance with the undertakings made by the Company in the Registration Statement to remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities that were registered but which remain unsold at the termination of the offering. The Registration Statement is hereby amended, as appropriate, to reflect the deregistration of such securities.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Irving, State of Texas, on September 19, 2019.

No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment in reliance upon Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.