23 Facts About Gray Television

Gray Television, Inc is an American publicly traded television broadcasting company based in Atlanta, Georgia.

James H Gray started his communication business with the purchase of The Herald Publishing Company, in 1946 after he returned from World War II.

In 1960, Gray Television purchased WJHG-TV in Panama City, Florida, and followed it later in the decade with KTVE serving Monroe, Louisiana and southern Arkansas.

Gray Television put itself-or any part up-for sale by the end of 1992.

Gray Television purchased two TV stations from the failed and government-seized Kentucky Central Life Insurance Co.

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In 1994 and 1995, Gray Television purchased two newspapers, the Rockdale Citizen and Gwinnett Post-Tribune and seven advertising weeklies.

Gray Television had started to focus on its TV station segment over the newspaper holding while TV produced more income and the newspapers' income were declining.

In 1996, Gray Television added additional TV stations while entering additional communication industry segments.

In September 1996 a basket purchase from First American Media, Inc, Gray Television got two TV stations, Satellite and Production Business Services, which was renamed Lynqx Communications and PortaPhone paging business.

Gray Television bought Gulflink Communications, Inc, a transportable satellite uplink business based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in April 1997 to go along with Lynqx.

In July 2015, Gray Television closed its accounting and human resources offices in Albany, combining them with the corporate offices in Atlanta.

In September 2015, Gray announced that it would acquire the television and radio stations of Schurz Communications for $442.

In January 2016, Gray Television opened a national news bureau in Washington, D C, led by former APTV journalist Jacqueline Policastro.

Gray Television intended to turn KNHL into a satellite of its NBC affiliate KSNB-TV.

Gray Television would divest nine stations in markets where Gray Television and Raycom both already owned stations, including WTNZ, WTOL, KXXV, WTXL, WFXG, KWES-TV, WPGX, WSWG, and WDFX-TV.

Gray Television contributed distribution and marketing capabilities, multicast knowledge and affiliate Gray Television TV stations.

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.

In September 2021, Gray Television purchased Doraville-based Third Rail Studios for $27.

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.

Gray Television considered the possibility of purchasing the Young stations if the group went on the market.

At that time, Gray Television had already acquired Sioux Falls rival station KSFY.

In February 2019, Gray Television announced that award-winning journalist Greta Van Susteren has joined the company as its Chief National Political Analyst.

Gray Television 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.