Grant Media Group

Grant Media Group is an American publicly traded media company with headquarters in Milledgeville, Georgia and Chelsea, New York, New York. The company owns 23 television stations across the United States, most of which are affiliates of the major television networks, including CBS, NBC, ABC, and Fox. It also operates Grant Classics, a terrestrial television network broadcast on most of their station’s subchannels, and three pay television networks, G!, Food World, and Scribble.
==History==
Grant Television Stations was founded in February 1992 as the television broadcasting subsidiary of department store chain Warner Grant. Its first television station was KQTA in Cape Barreplains, Missouri, acquired later that year.
The pay television network GranTV was launched in October 1994 as the first national network owned by Grant. The channel aired sitcoms, movies, children's shows, sports events, adult cartoons, and talk shows. The network was renamed G! in 1996.
The company was renamed Grant Media Group in July 2001. Two months later, its corporate headquarters at Six World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan were destroyed during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The plaza was not rebuilt, and Grant relocated to Seven Penn Plaza. Its parent company, The Grant Companies, has its own headquarters in Milledgeville, Georgia.
Two more cable networks were launched by the company in 2005 and 2006, respectively: Food World, a cuisine-oriented channel, and Scribble, a children's network with original and acquired kids programming. A syndicated Scribble block was offered to independent television stations from 2008 to 2019.
The company acquired Bordentown Broadcasting in September 2007, adding 10 stations to their portfolio. The same month, the company debuted their first in-house syndicated show, The Anne Hathaway Show, a daytime talk and interview show hosted by American actress Anne Hathaway. The show was successful, but ended in 2010 after three seasons due to Hathaway choosing to pursue other projects. From 2015 to 2019, the company produced another syndicated show, Aisle Masters, a game show similar to Supermarket Sweep.
In July 2012, select Grant stations added livestreaming for newscasts on their websites, becoming one of the first station groups to roll out the feature. By early 2014, all stations had online streaming. From 2015 to 2016, the livestream was under a paywall before being lifted due to viewer complaints.
On March 5, 2023, Grant announced that they were in the process of acquiring four stations from Portsmouth, New Hampshire-based Iris Communications: KTUR in Rivercrest, Louisiana; WHNJ in Heatherfield, New Jersey; and WGES and WLXI in Grandtown, New York.
==List of stations owned by Grant Media Group==
City of license / Market 	Station	Channel	Owned since	Affiliation
Cape Barreplains—Hartmond, MO	KQTA 	7 	1992 	ABC
Cape Barreplains—Hartmond, MO	KHFX 	39 	2015 	Fox
Lockwood City, IA 	KMEY 	12 	1993 	ABC
Kruger Bluff, KS 	KKBK 	3 	1993 	CBS
Kruger Bluff, KS 	KRTG 	59 	2018 	Fox
Canyon, KY 	WTRC 	40 	1993 	ABC
Southwater, MS 	WXSM 	13 	1994 	NBC
Thompson Point, NY 	WHGM 	14 	1997 	ABC
Livingston—Moore, TX 	KRLH 	42 	1998 	CBS
Elmers Pointe, OR 	KPLE-CD	50 	2000 	Fox
Allenfield, OH 	WAFV 	6 	2004 	NBC
Springfield—Fairview, IN 	WNVF 	5 	2007 	ABC
Springfield—Fairview, IN 	WFVR 	29 	2007 	Independent
Knightsville, PA 	WWPT 	16 	2007 	CBS
Clarksburg—Twin City, NY 	WNYF 	11 	2007 	CBS
Cato—Cera, FL 	WCFL 	2 	2007 	NBC
Clearfield, MA 	WWTV 	16 	2007 	Fox
Chambury—Ocean Valley, MD 	WMDV 	30 	2007 	ABC
Washington City, WA 	KWCR 	5 	2007 	CBS
Frosted Cove, ME 	WMVO 	10 	2007 	CBS
Mountain Bank, ID 	KJAS 	3 	2007 	CBS
Pendelton, DE 	WLCI 	9 	2011 	ABC
Hopewell—Wilkinsburg, MN 	WCAX 	40 	2014 	NBC
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