Gray Media, Inc. (GTN)
Local television station group, 9,582 employees. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 26, 2026. Ranked 1 of the 28 Communication Services companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
33%
End of 2028
62%
Employees, annual report
9,582
Leading staffing pattern
Radio and Television Broadcasting Stations
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now33%
- End of 202755%
- End of 202862%
- End of 203063%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 36%
- Becomes checking a model's work 48%
- Handed over with lighter checks 13%
A station group whose filing counts 9,165 full-time and 417 part-time employees with a small union share and no count by business, so the whole workforce is read at broadcasting stations.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 33% now, 55% at the end of 2027, 62% at the end of 2028, 63% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 63% desk work, 22% people work and 15% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 36% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 48% becomes checking a model's work and 13% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
9,582 employees as of February 20, 2026 (sum of stated parts). The filing describes only U.S. television markets, so the U.S. share is recorded as 1 with a flag; no count by country is stated.
The filing: “As of February 20, 2026, we had 9,165 full-time employees and 417 part-time employees, of which, 506 full-time and 16 part-time employees at 17 stations were represented by various unions.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Radio and Television Broadcasting Stations | 100% | By description (c): the filing describes a television station group with production companies at 2% of revenue and no count by business, so the whole workforce is read at broadcasting stations. |
What the filing says about the workforce: 9,165 full-time and 417 part-time employees as of February 20, 2026; 506 full-time and 16 part-time employees at 17 stations represented by unions (about 5%).
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Radio and Television Broadcasting Stations, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (NXST, 12,832 employees)32% now, 62% by 2028
- Fox Corporation (FOXA, 10,550 employees)30% now, 64% by 2028
- iHeartMedia, Inc. (IHRT, 9,550 employees)31% now, 63% by 2028
- Sinclair, Inc. (SBGI, 7,100 employees)33% now, 62% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
0 sentences in the filing name AI. No sentence in the filing names AI.
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20230median 1
- Fiscal 20240median 4
- Fiscal 20250median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 9,165 | 2026-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 9,118 | 2025-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 9,374 | 2024-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 8,942 | 2023-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 8,608 | 2022-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 7,017 | 2021-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 6,912 | 2020-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 7,371 | 2019-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 3,715 | 2018-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 3,700 | 2017-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 3,495 | 2016-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 2,717 | 2015-03-05 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 2,093 | 2014-03-11 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 1,937 | 2013-03-05 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 1,945 | 2012-03-06 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 1,942 | 2011-03-11 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 2,184 | 2010-04-07 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 1,988 | 2009-03-31 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 2,138 | 2008-03-14 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 2,117 | 2007-03-15 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 2,113 | 2006-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 2,228 | 2005-03-15 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 2,128 | 2004-03-12 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 2,147 | 2003-03-31 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 1,203 | 2002-03-27 | 10-K |
| 2000-12-31 | 1,284 | 2001-03-09 | 10-K |
| 1999-12-31 | 1,376 | 2000-03-10 | 10-K405 |
| 1998-12-31 | 1,233 | 1999-03-22 | 10-K405 |
| 1997-12-31 | 1,020 | 1998-03-04 | 10-K |
| 1996-12-31 | 890 | 1997-03-31 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The collector's 9,165 is the full-time count; the filing also states 417 part-time employees, summed (rule 2).
- The count is as of February 20, 2026, not the fiscal year end.
- The U.S. share is recorded as 1 because the filing describes only U.S. markets; it states no count by country.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001437749-26-005803, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of Gray Media, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 33% now and 62% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Gray Media, Inc.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Gray Media, Inc. employ?
- 9,582 as of February 20, 2026, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states as the sum of the parts it gives. About 100% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Gray Media, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Radio and Television Broadcasting Stations; by those patterns the work is about 63% desk work, 22% people work and 15% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Gray Media, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 0 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 0 and 0 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 19, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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