Granite Broadcasting

Granite Broadcasting LLC
Company typePrivate
IndustryTelevision
Founded1988; 36 years ago (1988)
DefunctNovember 2, 2015; 9 years ago (2015-11-02)
FateAcquired by Quincy Media
SuccessorQuincy Media
Gray Television
Headquarters767 Third Avenue
New York City United States
Key people
W. Don Cornwell and Stuart Beck, Founders
OwnerSilver Point Capital

Granite Broadcasting LLC is a broadcasting holding company in New York City which owns one television station in the United States, in Syracuse, New York. Granite was founded by W. Don Cornwell and Stuart Beck in 1988,[1] and was the first African-American station group in the United States considered to be a "major" station operator (though not the first minority-owned chain, a distinction held by the now-defunct Aleut-owned Cook Inlet Broadcasting).[citation needed]

Granite's chairman/CEO is Peter Markham, with Duane Lammers as COO.[2]

  1. ^ Cornwell And Deushane Stepping Down At Granite Broadcasting, Broadcasting & Cable, August 11, 2009, Retrieved October 19, 2018
  2. ^ "Duane A Lammers". Bloomberg. Retrieved August 18, 2021.