Tegna Inc.
United States media company
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| February 3 2025 | Tegna eliminated its 'Verify' fact-checking team, cutting approximately 20 journalist jobs. |
| September 6 2024 | Daily Blast Live concluded its run. |
| November 30 2023 | Another carriage dispute with DirecTV resulted in the removal of 66 Tegna stations from DirecTV services. |
| February 24 2023 | FCC staff referred the Tegna-Standard General-Apollo deal to an administrative law judge, effectively killing the merger. |
| February 22 2022 | Tegna announced an agreement to be taken private by Standard General and Apollo Global Management for $24 per-share, valuing the company at $5.4 billion. |
| October 6 2021 | A carriage dispute with Dish Network began, resulting in the removal of at least 64 Tegna stations from their services. |
| 2020 | Divested KFMB 760 and KFMB-FM 100.7 in San Diego. |
| 2020 | Sister Circle ended its run in Spring 2020. |
| 2020 | Added new stations in Dallas-Fort Worth (KFAA-TV) and Houston (KTBU), expanding the network's reach in Texas markets. |
| December 1 2020 | A carriage dispute with DirecTV began, resulting in the removal of at least 60 Tegna stations from DirecTV services. |
| 2019 | Tegna Inc. acquired WBNS 1460 AM and WBNS-FM 97.1 radio stations in Columbus, Ohio, expanding its radio station portfolio. |
| 2019 | Significant expansion of television station network, adding stations in Huntsville (WZDX), Fort Smith (KFSM-TV), Columbus (WBNS-TV), Toledo (WTOL and WUPW), Hartford (WTIC-TV and WCCT-TV), Indianapolis (WTHR and WALV-CD), Des Moines (WOI-DT and KCWI-TV), Odessa-Midland (KWES-TV), and Scranton-Wilkes-Barre (WNEP-TV). |
| December 2019 | Tegna agreed to sell KFMB-AM-FM to Local Media San Diego for $5 million. |
| June 11 2019 | Tegna purchased the Dispatch Broadcast Group's television and radio assets for $535 million, including WBNS and WTHR stations. |
| May 6 2019 | Tegna planned to acquire the remaining 85% of the Justice Network and Quest from Cooper Media for $77 Million. |
| March 2019 | Tegna formed VAULT Studios, its first in-house digital content studio, focusing initially on true crime podcasts. |
| March 20 2019 | Tegna entered an agreement with Nexstar Media Group to acquire eleven stations for $740 million to reduce Nexstar's national ownership reach. |
| August 20 2018 | Tegna agreed to purchase two stations from the Gray Television-Raycom Media merger: WTOL-TV in Toledo and KWES-TV in Odessa. |
| February 15 2018 | Tegna completed the acquisition of KFMB-AM-FM-TV in San Diego. |
| January 2018 | Tegna announced a partnership with Sony Pictures Television for syndication distribution and advertising sales of its original programs. |
| December 18 2017 | Tegna announced the acquisition of KFMB-AM-FM-TV in San Diego from Midwest Television, Inc. for $325 million. |
| November 7 2017 | Tegna and Cooper Media announced a new multicast network called Quest, with Tegna receiving a minority stake. |
| September 11 2017 | Daily Blast Live premiered, replacing the T.D. Jakes show. |
| September 8 2017 | T.D. Jakes talk show concluded its run. |
| June 2017 | Tegna entered into an agreement to sell CareerBuilder to an investor group led by Apollo Global Management and the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan. |
| June 1 2017 | Tegna completed the spin-off of Cars.com, separating the digital automotive marketplace platform from its main business. |
| May 2017 | Tegna shareholders approved the initial public offering of Cars.com as a publicly traded spin-off. |
| December 15 2016 | Tegna sold Cofactor Digital (ShopLocal) to Liquidus, a digital marketing solutions company. |
| December 9 2016 | Tegna greenlit the T.D. Jakes series for an entire run during the 2016-2017 broadcast season. |
| September 2016 | Tegna announced plans to spin off Cars.com to create two independent publicly traded companies. |
| September 12 2016 | T.D. Jakes show debuted on multiple Tegna-owned stations and large market stations across the United States. |
| August 17 2016 | T.D. Jakes talk show officially launched, co-produced by multiple production companies including Tegna Media. |
| 2015 | Tegna Media test-ran a limited-run informative talk show hosted by T.D. Jakes on its owned stations in Dallas, Atlanta, Minneapolis, and Cleveland. |
| 2015 | Acquired television stations in additional markets, including Louisville (WHAS-TV) and Portland, Oregon (KGW). |
| June 29 2015 | Tegna Inc. was created through the split of the Gannett Company into two separate publicly traded companies, with Tegna comprising the broadcast television and digital media divisions. |
| 2014 | Expanded television station portfolio with acquisitions in multiple Texas markets, including Abilene (KXVA), Beaumont (KBMT), Corpus Christi (KIII), San Angelo (KIDY), Tyler-Longview (KYTX), Waco (KCEN-TV), and Bryan-College Station (KAGS-LD). |
| June 19 2014 | Sale of KTVK and KASW stations completed. |
| February 28 2014 | Sale of KMOV completed. |
| 2013 | Tegna Inc. acquired multiple television stations across various markets, including stations in Austin (KVUE), Houston (KHOU), San Antonio (KENS), Norfolk (WVEC), and Seattle (KING-TV and KONG). |
| December 23 2013 | Meredith Corporation announced a $407.4 million deal to purchase KMOV, KTVK, and KASW stations. |
| December 16 2013 | U.S. Department of Justice ordered Gannett to divest KMOV within 120 days to preserve competition in advertising sales. |
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