Exclusive: Gray Television in $8.5 billion bid to acquire Tegna - sources By Reuters

U.S. territorial TV station administrator Gray Television Inc (N:GTN) has made an idea to gain bigger companion Tegna Inc (N:TGNA) for roughly $8.5 billion, including obligation, individuals acquainted with the issue said on Friday.  

A fruitful offer by Atlanta-based Gray would essentially extend its impression in a few TV markets. It underscores the weight Gray and different organizations in the TV station industry are under to pick up scale and evaluating power with publicists and the significant systems.  

While the part is profiting by expanded political publicizing this year in front of the U.S. presidential political decision in November, TV promoting spending plans have been in decay as media utilization movements to the web and web based spilling.  

Dim, which has a market capitalization of $1.5 billion, has offered about $20 per share in real money and stock for Tegna, two of the sources said. The obtaining financing would add to Gray's $3.8 billion obligation heap, however the organization has an arrangement to rapidly square away obligation should the arrangement be finished, one of the sources included.

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