GTN - Leadership updates

          ATLANTA, Aug. 31, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gray Media announced today the appointment of William Varnier as the new General Manager of WDBJ, the CBS affiliate serving Roanoke Virginia, effective October 5, 2026.           William is a Virginia native raised in Central Virginia, returning to the Commonwealth after more than three decades in local television.   For the past nearly three years, he has served as the Creative Services Director for Gray’s KCTV5, the CBS affiliate in Kansas City, Missouri. During his tenure, KCTV5 earned Station of the Year honors from both the Kansas Association of Broadcasters and the Missouri Broadcasters Association for three consecutive years.

ATLANTA, Oct. 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gray Media today announced that Alexander Quince will join Gray as General Manager of WBNG-TV (CBS) in Binghamton, New York, effective October 13, 2025. Quince will oversee all aspects of the station's operations, succeeding Bob Krummenacker, who retired on September 5th after 44 years of distinguished service at WBNG-TV.          Alexander is an award-winning news executive with more than a decade of experience leading high-performing teams in local and regional journalism. He most recently served as Senior Director at Spectrum News, where he managed daily news operations and personnel across Spectrum's networks in Albany, Buffalo, Hudson Vall

ATLANTA, July 24, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gray Media announced today award-winning Investigative Reporter and National Correspondent Anna Werner will join InvestigateTV, Gray's national investigative unit, effective August 18, 2025.   Anna brings more than 25 years of investigative experience and a distinguished career covering consumer protection, reporting on corporate misconduct, and exposing system-wide failures.   She was most recently National Senior Consumer Investigative Correspondent at CBS News in New York, where she led hard-hitting investigations, including, among many others, the nationally acclaimed "Medical Price Roulette" series, exposing our opaque healthcare payment syst

Veteran Technology Executive to Lead Next-Generation Wireless Venture Powered by ATSC 3.0 EdgeBeam Wireless, LLC, the joint venture launched by The E.W. Scripps Company, Gray Media, Nexstar Media Group, Inc., and Sinclair, Inc., is pleased to announce the appointment of Conrad Clemson as its Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. EdgeBeam was created to deliver robust, high-performance wireless data services to a wide range of industries by leveraging broadcasters' uniquely efficient infrastructure and the transformative power of the ATSC 3.0 standard. As CEO, Clemson will lead the build-out of EdgeBeam's platform and operations, fulfilling the founders' shared vision for natio

Twins return to over-the-air TV for first time since 2012 with 10 Tuesday games on FOX 9;10 Gray Media stations ensure first outer market Twins Territory OTA coverage since 1988 ATLANTA, April 01, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bringing Minnesota Twins baseball back to free, over-the-air television for the first time since 2012, the Twins, FOX 9 (KMSP-TV) and Gray Media today announced a new, multi-year partnership to broadcast 10 Tuesday night regular season games per season. All 10 simulcasts of Major League Baseball's Twins.TV production will air live in the Twin Cities on the main FOX 9 channel, beginning with an exclusive 40-minute FOX 9 pregame show. Select Gray Media stations in Minn

ATLANTA, Feb. 14, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --  Gray Media has named Blake Sebo as the next General Manager of KTUU and KYES, Gray's NBC and CBS affiliates in Anchorage, Alaska. Blake Sebo has nearly twenty years of experience in the broadcast television industry. Most recently, he served as a Sales Manager at KHBS/KHOG-TV in Fort Smith-Fayetteville, Arkansas, where he helped lead the team to the first #1 audited finish in station history. Previously, he served thirteen years as the Marketing and Research Director at KFSM-TV in Fort Smith, working closely with creative services, news, and sales to leverage research into a dominant #1 position in both ratings and revenue.    Blake served as

ATLANTA, Jan. 07, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --  Four of the nation's largest independent local broadcasting groups have come together to form EdgeBeam Wireless, LLC, a joint venture created to provide robust wireless data services to a wide range of businesses and industries across the country. The E.W. Scripps Company, Gray Media, Inc., Nexstar Media Group, Inc., and Sinclair, Inc. launched the new company ahead of meetings this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Leveraging broadcasters' uniquely efficient network architecture and the ATSC 3.0 transmission standard, EdgeBeam Wireless will provide expansive, reliable, and secure data delivery services. Using the broadcasters

ATLANTA, Jan. 03, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gray Media, Inc. (NYSE:GTN) has named Jacque Harms as the next General Manager of KKTV, the CBS affiliate in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Jacque Harms has more than 35 years of experience in the media business, most recently as the General Manager at WTOK-TV in Meridian, Mississippi, for the past four and a half years. Under her leadership, WTOK -TV was the Mississippi Association of Broadcasters Small Market Station of the Year in 2024 and a National Association of Broadcasters Service to America Finalist in 2021. Jacque is the recipient of multiple AP and MAB awards. Jacque's WTOK team raised the bar in digital storytelling, captivating

ATLANTA, Dec. 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gray Television, Inc. ("Gray" or "Gray Media") (NYSE:GTN) announced that Derek Rogers will join the company as the next General Manager and Director of Sales for KXII (CBS) and FXII (FOX) in Sherman, Texas, on January 6, 2025. He will succeed Rick Dean, who is retiring after 39 years at the stations, including the last 23 years as General Manager. Derek has more than 25 years of experience in the media business, most recently as the General Manager at WCBI in Columbus-Tupelo, Mississippi. Derek began his broadcast career as a production manager at WCBI, and over time he served as the station's production manager, promotions director, local sale

ATLANTA, Feb. 20, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gray Television Inc. ("Gray," the "Company," "we," "us," or "our") (NYSE:GTN) announced today that Chief Financial Officer Jim Ryan has notified the Company of his voluntary decision to transition into retirement after 2025. Gray and Jim have agreed that he will remain with Gray as a Senior Advisor through his retirement to assist with a seamless transition of his duties.   To succeed Jim as CFO, Gray announced the hiring of Jeff Gignac, who currently serves as a Managing Director and Head of Media & Telecom Investment Banking at Wells Fargo Securities. Jeff has worked closely with Jim and the Company as one of its lead bankers for the past sever

ATLANTA, Jan. 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gray Television, Inc. ("Gray") (NYSE:GTN) today announced its appointment of Liz Knight as the next General Manager of WALB and WGCW, the local NBC, ABC and CW affiliates, in Albany, Georgia. For the past five years, Liz Knight has served as the General Sales Manager at WALB-TV (NBC), WGCW (CW) and WTSG (Telemundo) in Albany, Georgia. Previously, she served as the stations' Local Sales Manager for nine years and Digital Sales Manager for one year. Prior to management at WALB she was an Account executive and has eighteen years of multimedia experience in Southwest Georgia. A native of Southwest Georgia, Liz grew up watching WALB-TV, which Gray put

ATLANTA, Dec. 20, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gray Television, Inc. ("Gray") (NYSE:GTN) today announced its appointment of Bruce Austin as the next General Manager of WVLT and WBXX, the local CBS and CW affiliates, in Knoxville, Tennessee. For the past five years, Bruce Austin has served as the General Manager at WALB-TV (NBC), WGCW (CW) and WTSG (Telemundo) in Albany, Georgia. Previously, he served as the stations' General Sales Manager for ten years. A native of Southwest Georgia, Bruce grew up watching WALB-TV, which Gray put on the air in 1954. Under his leadership, the operation expanded its local service and added additional local programming. In 2020, the Georgia Association of Broadc

ATLANTA, Sept. 25, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Peachtree Sports Network, Gray Television's newest sports broadcast channel, will launch Sunday, October 1st on WPCH 17.2. The channel will focus on live, local sports programming all year long and will feature teams from multiple sports across the state. 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. "As a lifelong sports fan, I know firsthand I became a fan by watching my local teams play on broadcast television," said WANF and WPCH Vice President and General Manager Erik Schrader. "While existing fans may follow

ATLANTA, March 30, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gray Television, Inc. ("Gray") (NYSE:GTN) today announced that it has appointed Blanca Esparza Pap and Micheal Smith as Assistant Vice Presidents of Gray Media Group, Inc., effective April 1, 2023. Blanca Esparza Pap has served as the Station Manager for Arizona's Family 3TV (KTVK) and CBS5 (KPHO) in Phoenix, Arizona, since 2019. She first joined 3TV in 2005 as its Community and Public Relations Manager, and she later became the Director of Marketing for both 3TV and KPHO. Blanca is a graduate of Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She graduated from the National Association of Broadcasters