Piedmont Television

Piedmont Television

Piedmont Television was a broadcasting company in the United States that owned television stations in smaller markets. The company was based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Piedmont was founded in 1996 as Grapevine Communications, and was originally based in Atlanta, Georgia.cite news |first=Erik |last=Spanburg |title=Gocom sells for $185 million |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/stories/1999/05/17/story1.html |work=Charlotte Business Journal |publisher=American City Business Journals |date=1999-05-14 |accessdate=2008-07-01 ] The company merged with GOCOM Communications in 1999; it inherited GOCOM's Charlotte headquarters and changed its name to GOCOM Holdings. In 2003, the name was again changed to Piedmont Televisioncite web |url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=961980 |title=Piedmont Television Holdings LLC |accessdate=2008-07-01 |work=BusinessWeek ] (the GOCOM name is now used by another company that owns WRSP-TV/WCCU in Springfield/Urbana, Illinois; that company is partially connected to Piedmontcite web |url=http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1196598&Service=TV&Form_id=323&Facility_id=62009 |title=OWNERSHIP REPORT FOR COMMERCIAL BROADCAST STATIONS |accessdate=2008-07-01 |date=2007-07-31 |work=CDBS Public Access |publisher=Federal Communications Commission ] ).

The company sold its stations to various owners in 2007.

tations formerly owned by Grapevine/GOCOM/Piedmont

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