Gray Television

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Gray Television, Inc. (NYSE: GTN) is a communications company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia^{[1][2][3][4]. As of March 2006, the company owned 33 television stations serving 26 television markets. Seventeen of the stations are affiliated with CBS, ten are affiliated with NBC, eight are affiliated with ABC and one is affiliated with Fox. Gray also operates fourteen multicast stations, six affiliated with My Network TV, four affiliated with Fox, five with The CW, and one indepedent. 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 November 2003 ratings reports. The combined TV station group reached approximately 5.3% of total U.S. TV households.}

^{In addition, with 17 CBS-affiliated stations, the company was the largest independent owner of CBS affiliates in the country. In 2006, the company spun off its five daily newspapers and wireless messaging business into the newly formed Triple Crown Media, which subsequently merged with Host Communications.}

^{All information in this Wiki entry are straight from the Gray Communications website.}

Contents 1 Television stations 2 Digital Subchannels 3 Cable-Only Channels 4 External link

^{[edit] Television stations}

^{The following are all affiliated stations:}

• ^{KAKE – Wichita, Kansas – ABC affiliate}
• ^{KBTX – Bryan, Texas – CBS}
• ^{KKCO – Grand Junction, Colorado – NBC}
• ^{KKTV – Colorado Springs, Colorado – CBS}
• ^{KOLN-KGIN – Lincoln and Grand Island, Nebraska – CBS}
• ^{KOLO – Reno, Nevada – ABC}
• ^{KWTX – Waco, Texas – CBS}
• ^{KXII – Sherman, Texas – CBS}
• ^{WAHU – Charlottesville, Virginia – FOX}
• ^{WBKO – Bowling Green, Kentucky – ABC}
• ^{WCAV – Charlottesville, Virginia – CBS}
• ^{WCTV – Thomasville, Georgia / Tallahassee, Florida – CBS}
• ^{WEAU – Eau Claire, Wisconsin – NBC}
• ^{WHSV-TV – Harrisonburg, Virginia – ABC}
• ^{WIBW – Topeka, Kansas – CBS}
• ^{WIFR – Rockford, Illinois – CBS}
• ^{WILX – Lansing, Michigan – NBC}
• ^{WITN – Washington, North Carolina – NBC}
• ^{WJHG – Panama City, Florida – NBC}
• ^{WKYT – Lexington, Kentucky – CBS}
• ^{WMTV – Madison, Wisconsin – NBC}
• ^{WNDU – South Bend, Indiana – NBC}
• ^{WOWT – Omaha, Nebraska – NBC}
• ^{WRDW – North Augusta, South Carolina – CBS}
• ^{WSAW – Wausau, Wisconsin – CBS}
• ^{WSAZ – Huntington, West Virginia – NBC}
• ^{WSWG – Valdosta, Georgia – CBS}
• ^{WTAP – Parkersburg, West Virginia – NBC}
• ^{WTOK – Meridian, Mississippi – ABC}
• ^{WTVY – Dothan, Alabama – CBS}
• ^{WVAW – Charlottesville, Virginia – ABC}
• ^{WVLT – Knoxville, Tennessee – CBS}
• ^{WYMT – Hazard, Kentucky – CBS}

^{[edit] Digital Subchannels}

^{With the growth of digital television in the United States, Gray Television has been a pioneer of using subchannels on digital signals for second stations, often to bring unserved networks to markets.}

Market	Station	Parent	Channel	Affiliation	Notes
Thomasville, Georgia-Tallahassee, Florida	My TV	WCTV	6.2	MyNetworkTV	also controls WSWG, CBS affiliate from Valdosta, GA
Valdosta-Albany, Georgia	My TV	WSWG	44.2	MyNetworkTV	WSWG controlled by WCTV
Meridian, Mississippi	Fox Meridian	WTOK	11.2	FOX
Meridian, Mississippi	CW Meridian	WTOK	11.3	The CW
Lincoln-Grand Island, Nebraska	My Nebraska	KOLN/KGIN	10.3 and 11.3	My Network TV
Omaha, Nebraska	62O	WOWT	6.2	Independent	Formerly a UPN affiliate
Knoxville, Tennessee	My VLT2	WVLT-TV	8.2	MyNetworkTV	First Gray subchannel affiliate, Formerly UPN Knoxville, Formerly MY East TN TV
Lexington, Kentucky	CW KYT	WKYT-TV	27.2	The CW
Hazard, Kentucky	CW Hazard	WYMT-TV	57.3	The CW
Sherman, Texas	My Texhoma	KXII	12.2	My Network TV	launched Summer 2006
Sherman, Texas	Fox Texhoma	KXII	12.3	FOX	launched Summer 2006
Waco-Temple-Killeen,Texas	CW Waco	KWTX-TV	10.2	The CW	Formerly UPN Waco
Bryan-College Station, Texas	CW Bryan	KBTX-TV	3.2	The CW
Harrisonburg, Virginia	The Valley's FOX	WHSV	3.2	FOX	Launched October 2006
Harrisonburg, Virginia	TV3 Winchester	WHSV	3.3	ABC	Will serve only the northern counties of the Shenandoah Valley on cable
Harrisonburg, Virginia	My Valley TV	WHSV	3.4	My Network TV	Launched October 2006
Bowling Green, Kentucky	FOX Bowling Green	WBKO-TV	13.2	FOX
Bowling Green, Kentucky	CW Bowling Green	WBKO-TV	13.3	The CW
Huntington, West Virginia	My Z TV	WSAZ-TV	3.2	My Network TV
Colorado Springs-Pueblo, Colorado	MyKKTV	KKTV	11.2	My Network TV

^{[edit] Cable-Only Channels}

^{TV-3 Winchester, an ABC affiliate in Winchester, Virginia launched in March of 2007. The station was built in conjunction with Shenandoah University and located in a newly-built studio that TV-3 Winchester shares with another cable only station run exclusively by Shenandoah University.}

^{[edit] External link}

• ^{Official Website}
• ^{Information current as of: March 24th, 2007}