Whois & Analysis for tegna.com

Tegna, Inc. (stylized as TEGNA) is an American publicly traded broadcast and digital media company headquartered in McLean, Virginia.

It was created on June 29, 2015, when Gannett Company split into two publicly traded companies.

Tegna comprises the more profitable broadcast television and digital media divisions of the old Gannett, while Gannett's publishing interests were spun off as a "new" company that retained the Gannett name.

Tegna owns or operates 46 television stations (which, alongside those historically owned by Gannett/Tegna, includes stations that had recently been acquired by Tegna from Belo Corporation and the London Broadcasting Company), and is the largest group owner of stations affiliated with NBC and CBS, and properties in digital media.

Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and/or video content or other messages to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves), in a model.

Broadcasting began with AM radio, which came into popular use around 1920 with the spread of vacuum tube radio transmitters and receivers.

Before this, all forms of electronic communication (early radio, telephone, and telegraph) were , with the message intended for a single recipient.

The term broadcasting, borrowed from the agricultural method of sowing seeds in a field by casting them broadly about, was coined by either KDKA manager Frank Conrad or RCA historian George Clark around 1920 to distinguish this new activity of "one-to-many" communication; a single radio station transmitting to multiple listeners.

Digital television (DTV) is the transmission of audio and video by digitally processed and multiplexed signal, in contrast to the totally analog and channel separated signals used by analog television.

Digital TV can support more than one program in the same channel bandwidth.

It is an innovative service that represents the first significant evolution in television technology since color television in the 1950s.

Several regions of the world are in different stages of adaptation and are implementing different broadcasting standards.

Below are the different widely used digital television broadcasting standards (DTB):

A television station is a business, organisation or other enterprise, such as an amateur television (ATV) operator, that transmits (broadcasts) content over terrestrial television.

A television transmission can occur via analog television signals or, more recently, via digital television signals.

Broadcast television systems standards are set by the government, and these vary around the world.

Television stations broadcasting over an analog system were typically limited to one television channel, but digital television enables broadcasting via subchannels as well.

The term "television station" is normally applied to terrestrial television stations, and not to cable television or satellite television broadcasting.

A media market, broadcast market, media region, designated market area (DMA), television market area, or simply market is a region where the population can receive the same (or similar) television and radio station offerings, and may also include other types of media including newspapers and Internet content.

They can coincide or overlap with one or more metropolitan areas, though rural regions with few significant population centers can also be designated as markets.

Conversely, very large metropolitan areas can sometimes be subdivided into multiple segments.

Market regions may overlap, meaning that people residing on the edge of one media market may be able to receive content from other nearby markets.

They are widely used in audience measurements, which are compiled in the United States by Nielsen Media Research.

Nielsen measures both television and radio audiences since its acquisition of Arbitron, which was completed in September 2013.