Company type | Private |
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Industry | Television |
Founded | 1988 |
Defunct | November 2, 2015 |
Fate | Acquired by Quincy Media |
Successor | Quincy Media Gray Television |
Headquarters | 767 Third Avenue New York City United States |
Key people | W. Don Cornwell and Stuart Beck, Founders |
Owner | Silver 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]