Gray Television
Atlanta, Georgia , U.S. | |
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Products | 180 terrestrial TV stations |
Revenue | $3.28 billion USD (2023) |
$383 million USD (2023) | |
$128 million USD (2023) | |
Total assets | US$10.64 billion USD (2023) |
Total equity | US$2.62 billion USD (2023) |
Number of employees | 8,018 (2019) |
Website | gray |
Footnotes / references [1][2] |
Gray Television, Inc. is an American publicly traded television broadcasting company based in
History
James H. Gray started his communication business with the purchase of The Herald Publishing Company (a company founded in 1897 to promote The Albany Herald, a newspaper that started publication in 1891), in 1946 after he returned from World War II. The purchase included WALB radio. Gray launched WALB-TV in 1954. In 1960, Gray purchased WJHG-TV in Panama City, Florida, and followed it later in the decade with KTVE serving Monroe, Louisiana and southern Arkansas.[3][4]
In 1986 Gray died, leaving his 50.5% share of the stock in a trust for his children with stipulation that they run the business together, sell their stock with each other or sell out together.[4] This caused difficulties as two of the three wanted to sell, but the third was against the purchase. In 1991, to break the stalemate, the board of directors had the company purchase 25% of their shares.[3][4]
Gray Communication Systems
The company was then taken public on NASDAQ's small-cap market in the 2nd quarter 1992. The price per share dropped to $8. The company put itself-or any part up-for sale by the end of 1992. While the board of directors received about 40 offers, Bull Run Corporation eventually stepped in and purchased the remaining shares of the Gray siblings, who as part of the deal resigned from the board.[3][4]
New management took over all three TV stations. Bull Run Corporation, primarily owned by
In 1994 and 1995, Gray purchased two newspapers, the
Fiscal Year |
Revenue millions |
Net Income (Loss) millions[3] |
---|---|---|
1994 | $36.5 | $2.8 |
1995 | 58.6 | .9 |
1996 | 79.3 | 2.5 |
1997 | 103.5 | (1.4)[5] |
1998 | 128.8 | 41.6[5] |
1999 | 143.9 | (6.3)[5] |
2000 | 120.6 | (6.2)[6] |
2001 | 106.4 | (13.3)[6] |
2002 | 146.7 | (27.8)[6] |
2003 | 243.0 | 14.0[7] |
2004 | 293.2 | 44.2[7] |
2005 | 261.5 | 3.3[7] |
2006 | 332.1 | 11.7[8] |
2007 | 307.2 | (23.1)[8] |
2008 | 327.1 | (202.0)[8] |
2009 | 270.3 | (23.0)[8] |
2010 | 346.0 | 23.1[8] |
2011 | 307.1 | 9.0[9] |
2012 | 404.8 | 28.1[9] |
2013 | 346.2 | 18.2[9] |
2014 | 508.1 | 48.0[9] |
2015 | 597.3 | 39.3[9] |
2016 | 812.4 | 62.2[10] |
2017 | 882.7 | 261.9[10] |
2018 | 1,084.1 | 210.8[11] |
In 1996, Gray added additional TV stations while entering additional communication industry segments. In 1996, Fortune considered the company the nation's 81st fastest growing company, with a 48% percent growth rate, and as if to prove the point, Gray purchased WRDW-TV in January 1996. In September of the same year, a basket purchase from First American Media, Inc. earned the company two more TV stations, (WCTV and WVLT-TV), Satellite and Production Business Services, which was renamed Lynqx Communications and PortaPhone paging business.[3]
In August and September 1996, Gray raised additional operating funds by various means. On August 20, KTVE was sold for cash and accounts receivable. The company issued and sold Class B common stock (through a public offering), senior subordinated notes and preferred stock in September. Also, a new bank credit facility was arranged. This brought the company total to $534.5 million in available funds with $409.5 million directly available.[3]
Also in September 1996, Ralph Gabbard, the newly named president and CEO, died from a heart attack at age 50. Robinson, Bull Run's chair, took over as interim CEO and president with Bull Run CEO Robert Prather as interim executive vice-president, acquisitions.[3]
With its additional funds, Gray continued purchasing in 1997 with two announcements in January and February. The company bought Gulflink Communications, Inc., a transportable satellite uplink business based in
In 1998, Gray started to expand beyond its Southeast region. As the company agreed to purchase the Busse Broadcasting Corporation, which owned
In 2002, Robinson became chairman and CEO, his son-in-law Hilton Howell vice chairman, Prather president/COO and Jim Ryan senior vice president. They had Gray purchase 14 Benedek Broadcasting stations while that company was in bankruptcy.[13]
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In 2006, the company spun off its five daily newspapers and wireless messaging business into the newly formed Triple Crown Media,[4][14] later (in 2010) renamed Southern Community Newspapers.[15] A new strategy of purchasing stations in college towns or capitals was put into place by.[13]
The company had overpaid for a pair of stations and was over leveraged like many other station groups entering the Great Recession. Advertising revenues dropped. The twin problems caused its shares to trade at its lowest at 16 cents in 2008, thus the NYSE indicated they might delist the company. Loan covenants could have forced the company into default.[13] Robinson stepped down with Howell replacing him in 2008.[13]
On July 30, 2009, Gray was awarded a contract to manage seven Young Broadcasting-owned stations. Through December 31, 2012, Gray would earn $2.2 million and an opportunity to earn additional specified incentive fees if certain performance targets were exceeded.[16][17][18]
Prather left the company in 2013 and Howell took over the president title.
The sale was completed on June 13, 2014. However, some stations were forced to go off the air and their programming was moved to a multicast stream on adjacent channels, due to some stations being unable to receive regulatory approval, after the FCC's ruling on joint sales agreements. Those silent stations would then be sold off to minority interest, pending FCC approval.[23][24]
On July 24, 2014, SJL Broadcasting announced that it would sell WJRT-TV and WTVG to Gray, for $128 million.[25][26] The sale was completed on September 15.[27]
In July 2015, Gray closed its accounting and human resources offices in Albany (housed in the same building as The Albany Herald), combining them with the corporate offices in Atlanta.[4]
In September 2015, Gray announced that it would acquire the television and radio stations of
In January 2016, Gray Television opened a national news bureau in Washington, D.C., led by former APTV journalist Jacqueline Policastro. The bureau was designed to provide enhanced coverage of national political issues for Gray's local stations.[32][33]
On May 13, 2016, Gray announced that it would acquire WDTV and WVFX in Clarksburg, West Virginia from Withers Broadcasting for $26.5 million.[34] On June 3, 2016, it was announced that Gray would acquire two stations that were spun-off from the Nexstar-Media General merger; KWQC-TV in Davenport, Iowa and WBAY-TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin for $270 million.[35][36] On February 16, 2017, Gray announced that it would acquire WABI-TV in Bangor, Maine and WCJB-TV in Gainesville, Florida from Diversified Communications for $85 million.[37] On May 4, 2017, Gray announced its intent to acquire WCAX-TV in Burlington, Vermont from Mount Mansfield Television for $29 million.[38][39]
In April 2017, Gray Television filed a lawsuit against Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett, founders of the
On May 21, 2018, Gray Television entered into an agreement to acquire KNHL from Legacy Broadcasting for $475,000. Gray intended to turn KNHL into a satellite of its NBC affiliate KSNB-TV.[42]
On June 25, 2018, Gray Television announced its intent to acquire Raycom Media for $3.65 billion, pending regulatory approval. The combined company would be led by Raycom's current president and CEO Pat LaPlatney, with current Gray CEO Hilton Howell acting as executive chairman and co-CEO. The acquisition, which Gray expected to close in late 2018, would give Gray 142 stations in 92 markets, making Gray the third-largest owner of television stations in the United States, with a total market share of 24%.[43][44][45]
Although Gray foresaw that the acquisition would receive regulatory approval quickly, due to limited market overlap between the two companies and its still-relatively low total market reach post-acquisition. Gray would divest nine stations in markets where Gray and Raycom both already owned stations, including
Gray announced on April 24, 2019, a joint venture with Grand Ole Opry Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of
On February 1, 2021, Gray Television announced its intent to acquire all Quincy Media's broadcasting properties for $925 million in cash. To comply with federal regulators, Gray would divest Quincy stations in Tucson; Harrisburg, Illinois; Waterloo/Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and Madison, La Crosse, and Wausau in Wisconsin over to Allen Media Group.[53] Gray's acquisition of Quincy Media was completed on August 2.[54]
In March 2021, Gray Television revealed plans to purchase a shuttered General Motors plant in Atlanta suburb Doraville, Georgia and transform the site into a media production community called Assembly.[55][56] The "studio city" is set to include multiple film studios, as well as apartments, townhomes, a hotel, corporate offices, restaurants and retail space. In September 2021, Gray Television purchased Doraville-based Third Rail Studios for $27.5 million.[57]
On May 3, 2021, Gray announced plans to buy the television division of Meredith Corporation for $2.7 billion. If approved, Gray would sell WJRT-TV to acquire competing station WNEM-TV, owned by Meredith.[58] It is revealed that Allen Media Group would purchase WJRT-TV in Flint for $70 million.[59] The sale was completed on December 1.[60]
On September 18, 2021, Gray launched InvestigateTV, a weekly program featuring investigative stories from a national team and Gray local investigations to a national audience.[61] The program draws from an investigative unit formed at WVUE under Raycom ownership.[62]
On September 28, 2022, Gray announced its intent to purchase WBQC-LD for $2.5 million.[63] The sale was completed on November 21, making WBQC-LD a sister station to WXIX-TV.[64]
On September 11, 2023, InvestigateTV+, a weekday expansion of the InvestigateTV franchise, launched on all Gray television stations and is syndicated to stations outside of a Gray market.[65]
On October 1, 2023, the Peachtree Sports Network will launch in Georgia, focusing on live, local sports programming all year long. The broadcast network will launch in Atlanta but will soon air on Gray-owned over-the-air channels in Albany, Augusta, Columbus, Macon, and Savannah in the coming months.[66]
On November 7, 2023, Gray, Warner Bros. Discovery and Lionsgate teamed up to form Free TV Networks, a new company that will be led by broadcasting veteran Jonathan Katz, with presence in both broadcast networks and FAST streaming channels. The company will launch broadcast and FAST streaming versions of The365, a channel for African-American audiences, and Outlaw, a network for Western programming, as well as FAST channels VCR Action and VCR Haha, under the joint venture on January 1, 2024.[67] Later, on November 10, 2023, it was announced that Circle will cease its broadcast operations on December 31, 2023, with plans on transitioning to FAST streaming and other avenues, as well as a likely chance for the broadcast operations of Circle to be replaced by one of two channels of the new Free TV Networks company.[68]
On February 1, 2024, it was announced that Marquee and Gray Television Inc had reached agreements to swap television stations in Wyoming and Utah. As part of the swap Marquee will end up with
On February 14, 2024, Gray Television and Syncbak launched Zeam, a free ad-supported steaming service that features local news, local sports, and local weather.
Assets
Current
- Free TV Networks (broadcast networks and FAST streaming channels; joint venture with Warner Bros. Discovery and Lionsgate)[67]
- The365 (broadcast network and FAST streaming channel)
- Outlaw (broadcast network and FAST streaming channel)
- VCR Action (FAST streaming channel)
- VCR Haha (FAST streaming channel)
- Circle Country (FAST streaming channel; joint venture with Opry Entertainment Group)[68]
- Raycom Sports
- PowerNation Studios
- PowerNation (automotive hobby programming for syndication across many of Gray’s affiliates)
- Tupelo Honey (production company)
- Zeam (FAST streaming channel; joint venture with the National Association of Broadcasters and streaming technology company Syncbak; a service comprising about 300 local TV stations from Grey, CBS, Hearst and others that emphasizes local news coverage, which launched February 14, 2024) [70][71]
Stations
Management of Young Broadcasting stations
On July 22, 2009, a New York bankruptcy judge approved a plan transferring ownership of Young Broadcasting and its stations to the company's secured lenders. The plan included Gray Television coming in as an outside party to advise on the operations of Young-owned stations in seven markets through December 2012. The new Young Broadcasting still held the final say on overall operations for their stations, including programming and personnel.[16][18]
The former Young-owned stations managed by Gray Television include:
- WKRN-TV in Nashville, Tennessee
- SSA with WXXA-TV
- WRIC-TV in Richmond, Virginia
- WBAY-TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin
- KWQC-TV in Davenport, Iowa
- KELO-TV in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and its translators throughout South Dakota
- KLFY-TV in Lafayette, Louisiana
Young Broadcasting would retain ownership of all its stations, including three stations that Gray would not operate:
The agreement ended without any further extensions on December 31, 2012, and Young agreed to a merger with
Washington News Bureau
By January 20, 2016, Gray had set up their Washington News Bureau by Jacqueline Policastro to enable stations to get interviews with U.S. Senators and Representatives serving their communities. The bureau cooperates with Lilly Broadcasting's Washington bureau, previously started by Policastro, and is located at the NBC News Capitol Hill Bureau, 400 N. Capitol Street.[33] In February 2019, Gray announced that journalist Greta Van Susteren joined the company as its Chief National Political Analyst. Gray then announced in April 2019 Greta Van Susteren as host of a Sunday morning syndicated show, Full Court Press with Greta Van Susteren, which was launched in September 2019.[73] Van Susteren departed the company for Newsmax TV in late 2022.
Local News Live
Originating from Gray's Washington bureau is Local News Live, a hosted service of live breaking news and events from the 113 Gray television markets across the country, similar to LiveNOW from Fox (produced by Fox Television Stations) and The National Desk (produced by Sinclair Broadcast Group). The channel operates from 7 a.m. to midnight Eastern, (with paid programing vacating their spots), features live newscasts at 7 a.m., 2 p.m., and 8 p.m. Eastern time, and repeats throughout the day when no breaking news is occurring. In addition to live events, the anchors interview reporters and use footage not otherwise seen on broadcast. Local News Live airs on Gray television live streams between local newscasts and as a separate option on Gray station websites.[74]
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