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Gray Media, Inc. reports developments across a multimedia business built around local television stations, digital assets, and production properties. Its recurring news includes advertising demand, political revenue, retransmission consent economics, station acquisitions, and quarterly financial results for a broadcasting portfolio serving 120 full-power television markets.
Company updates also cover Gray Digital Media, digital and streaming distribution, Telemundo affiliates, sports and video production properties such as Raycom Sports, Tupelo Media Group, PowerNation Studios, Assembly Atlanta, and Third Rail Studios, as well as dividends, investor events, leadership appointments, and governance matters.
Gray Media (GTN) has promoted Tim Maloney to General Manager and Director of Sales at WBKO, the ABC, FOX, and CW affiliates serving Bowling Green and South Central Kentucky, effective September 21, 2026.
Maloney has spent 20 years at WBKO in sales and leadership roles, starting as an Account Executive and most recently serving as Multi-Media Sales Manager overseeing revenue strategies and local and regional accounts. Before WBKO, he founded and operated a multi-location retail business.
He is active in civic affairs, serving on the board of Junior Achievement of South Central Kentucky, holding an associate membership with the Bowling Green Area Chamber of Commerce, and helping lead station events and fundraisers supporting partnerships with more than 30 nonprofit organizations.
Gray Media (GTN) has promoted Ronna Steber to Chief Revenue Officer effective September 15, 2026.
Steber will oversee advertising sales strategy, new business development, and sales training across Gray’s portfolio of local television stations and digital assets, while continuing oversight of select stations and digital properties. Gray Media describes her as having a proven record of success and deep knowledge of its local markets. The company serves 117 full-power television markets reaching about 37% of US TV households and operates leading stations in many of those markets.
Gray Media (GTN) will air 15 Cleveland Cavaliers regular season games free, over-the-air during the 2026-27 NBA season in partnership with the Cavaliers and DAZN.
The package is a simulcast of games that sit in front of the Cavaliers on DAZN paid subscription offering and will run on Cleveland stations WOIO (CBS 19), WUAB (MyNet 43) and statewide on Rock Entertainment Sports Network. Additional Gray stations in markets including Cincinnati, Lima and Parkersburg will also carry the games, while Gray will seek more third-party broadcasters in other parts of the territory. The schedule, running from October 26, 2026 through April 4, 2027, includes pregame and postgame coverage and, per Rock Entertainment Group, triples the number of games available free over-the-air.
Gray Media (GTN) is launching new weekday seasons of its programs InvestigateTV+ and Aging Untold and debuting a weekday edition of The Good Side as of September 14, 2026.
InvestigateTV+ returns for its fourth season, airing weekdays in Gray and select non-Gray markets and clearing in over 72% of the U.S. daily, after reaching nearly 13 million Adults 18+ during the 2025–26 season. Aging Untold begins its second season after a first season that premiered in March 2026 and reached over 7 million viewers 18+, and is now cleared in nearly 40% of the country. The Good Side moves from a weekend to a Monday–Friday schedule, led by hosts Debra Alfarone and Graham Ulkins, focusing on uplifting community stories.
Gray Media (GTN) entered a full-season broadcast partnership with the Orlando Magic to air approximately 70 regular season games in Gainesville, Panama City, and Tallahassee during the 2026-27 NBA season.
All non-national-exclusive games will be shown free, over-the-air on WTGB 34.3, WJHG 7.6, and WCTV 6.3, each affiliated with the 365BLK network and also carried on local cable. Select games will additionally air on Gray’s ABC, NBC, CBS, and MyNetwork stations in these markets. Dante Marchitelli will handle play-by-play alongside analyst Jeff Turner, with Kendra Douglas as team reporter. The Magic plan to announce a direct-to-consumer streaming partner at a later date.
Gray Media (NYSE: GTN) appointed William Varnier as General Manager of WDBJ, the CBS affiliate serving Roanoke, Virginia, effective October 5, 2026. Varnier is a Virginia native with over three decades in local television, most recently Creative Services Director at Gray’s KCTV5 in Kansas City.
Gray Media (NYSE: GTN) has closed its previously announced offering of $750 million aggregate principal amount of 7.500% senior secured first lien notes due 2034, issued at par. Net proceeds will fund the redemption of $675 million of 10.500% senior secured first lien notes due 2029, repay $21 million under its revolving credit facility, and cover related fees and expenses.
Following the expected August 27, 2026 redemption, Gray anticipates $350 million of 2029 notes will remain outstanding. The new notes are guaranteed on a senior secured first lien basis by restricted subsidiaries that guarantee Gray’s senior credit facility, bear interest from August 21, 2026, payable semiannually starting March 15, 2027, and mature on September 15, 2034. The notes were privately placed to qualified institutional buyers under Rule 144A and to certain non-U.S. investors under Regulation S.
Gray Media (NYSE: GTN) will air two Atlanta Braves games with Spanish-language coverage across 18 Telemundo affiliate stations in the Southeast: August 25 vs. the Los Angeles Dodgers and September 8 vs. the Tampa Bay Rays, both at 7:15 p.m., preceded by a locally produced pre-game show.
Gray Media (NYSE: GTN) has priced a private offering of $750 million aggregate principal amount of 7.500% senior secured first lien notes due 2034, issued at 100% of par. Closing is expected on August 21, 2026, subject to customary conditions.
According to Gray, net proceeds are intended to redeem a portion of its outstanding 10.500% senior secured first lien notes due 2029, repay part of its revolving credit facility borrowings, and cover related fees and expenses. The notes will be guaranteed on a senior secured first lien basis by restricted subsidiaries that guarantee Gray’s existing senior credit facility.
Gray Media (NYSE: GTN) announced that the Radio Television Digital News Association awarded its stations and national investigative unit nine National Edward R. Murrow Awards for 2026, the most of any broadcast or cable television organization or local TV group.
Winners include WANF Atlanta for Overall Excellence (Large Market), WSMV Nashville for a podcast episode, WVUE New Orleans and KTUU Anchorage for News Series, KWCH Wichita for a newscast, WOWT Omaha for Sports Reporting, KWTX Waco for Feature Reporting, WMBF Myrtle Beach for Excellence in Video, and InvestigateTV for a Hard News investigation into a nationwide “ghost plate” toll scheme. Earlier in the year, 41 Gray stations earned 93 regional Murrow Awards, highlighting the group’s broad recognition for journalism.