- Gray Television
Gray Television, Inc. (nyse|GTN) is a communications company headquartered in
Atlanta, Georgia , with administrative offices inAlbany, Georgia .Gray Television currently owns 34
television stations serving 26 mainly mid-size and small-size media markets. (The highest-ranked market Gray serves is , the 59th ranked market in 2008.) One of the stations is affiliated with FOX, 6 are with ABC, 10 are withNBC , and 17 are affiliated withCBS (making Gray the largest independent owner of CBS affiliates in the country).Among their stations, Gray also operates a total of 36 digital subchannels. Eleven of the subchannels are affiliated with
MyNetworkTV , 8 are with The CW, 5 are with FOX, 1 has no network affiliation, 1 repeats a cable-only ABC station, and 5 broadcast weather information exclusively. The combined station group had 22 stations ranked number 1 in local news audience and 22 stations ranked number 1 in overall audience within their respective markets based on the results of the average of the Nielsen February, May, July and November2003 ratings reports. The combined TV station group reached approximately 5.3% of total U.S. TV households.In 2006, the company spun off its five daily newspapers and wireless messaging business into the newly formed
Triple Crown Media , which subsequently merged withHost Communications .Television stations
*(1) Semi-satellite of
WCTV
*(2)TV3 Winchester is Winchester, Virginia's ABC affiliate. The station is a joint operation of WHSV andShenandoah University , and appears on cable systems located only in the northern Shenandoah Valley counties.
*(A) Digital-only station (no analog broadcasts)External links
* [http://www.graycommunications.com Official Website]
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