Gray Television, Inc. Acquires KKCO-TV, NBC Channel 11, in Grand Junction, Colorado
February 01 2005 - 9:21AM
PR Newswire (US)
Gray Television, Inc. Acquires KKCO-TV, NBC Channel 11, in Grand
Junction, Colorado ATLANTA, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Gray
Television, Inc. (NYSE:GTN andNYSE:GTN.A) announced today it has
completed the acquisition of KKCO-TV from Eagle III Broadcasting,
LLC. KKCO-TV, Channel 11 serves the Grand Junction, Colorado
television market and is an NBC affiliate. Highlights: * KKCO-TV is
the number one rated television station in news and in overall
audience. * Gray also owns and operates KKTV-TV, its CBS affiliate
in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Upon completion of the KKCO-TV
acquisition, Gray will own and operate the number one rated
television stations in two of Colorado's three television markets.
* Grand Junction is located in Mesa County; from 1990 to 2000 Mesa
County's population grew by 28.4% putting it in the top 10% of
counties nationwide in terms of population growth. * Colorado had
the 3rd fastest growing state population from 1990 to 2000. *
KKCO-TV's market includes Mesa State College, a four-year college
with approximately 6,000 students and home to the annual National
Junior College Baseball World Series. * Grand Junction ranks as the
189th largest television market in the U.S. with 64,000 television
households. Through its acquisition strategy, Gray seeks out
television stations that are number one in their markets, have
strong local news programming and are located in growing markets.
KKCO-TV has all of these characteristics. The purchase price for
the acquisition was $13.5 million and Gray used a portion of its
cash on hand to fully fund the acquisition. Gray Television, Inc.
is a communications company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, and
currently operates 16 CBS-affiliated television stations, eight
NBC-affiliated television stations, seven ABC-affiliated television
stations and five daily newspapers. DATASOURCE: Gray Television,
Inc. CONTACT: Bob Prather, President, +1-404-266-8333, or Jim Ryan,
Chief Financial Officer, +1-404-504-9828, both of Gray Television,
Inc. Web site: http://www.graytvinc.com/
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