Gray Media, Inc.

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for holding. Your call will begin momentarily. Once again ladies and gentlemen, thank you for holding. Your call will begin momentarily. The End Thank you. Thank you. The End Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Gray Television Q1 2024 earnings call. If you know you'd like to ask a question, you may join the queue at any time during the call by pressing star 1 on your telephone keypad. Again, that's star 1 on your telephone keypad to join the question queue. And without further ado, I will now turn the program over to Executive Chairman and CEO, Hilton Howell, Jr. HILTON HOWELL, JR.:

: Thank you, operator. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining our first quarter 2024 earnings call. With me here in Atlanta are all of our executive officers, Pat LaPlatene, our president and co-CEO, Sandy Breland, our chief operating officer, Kevin Latech, our chief legal and development officer, Jim Ryan, our chief financial officer, and for the first time as an officer of this company, Jeff Gignac, currently our Executive Vice President of Finance. And as you all know, on July the 1st, Jeff will succeed Jim as the Chief Financial Officer of Gray Television, after Jim serving 26 years in that chair, and by my count, over 100 public earnings calls. As usual, we will begin with a disclaimer that Kevin will provide.

Kevin O' Thank you, Hilton. Good morning, everyone. Ray uses its website as a key source of company information. The website address is www.gray.tv. We filed our quarterly report on Form 10-Q with the SEC today. Included on the call may be discussion of non-GAAP financial measures, and in particular, adjusted EBITDA, leverage ratio denominator, and certain leverage ratios. These metrics are not meant to replace GAAP measurements, but are provided as supplements to assist the public in its analysis and evaluation of our company. Included in our earnings release as well as on our website are reconciliations of these financial measures to the GAAP measures reported in our financial statements. Certain matters discussed in this column may include forward-looking statements regarding, among other things, future operating results. Those statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties. Actual results in the future could differ from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. as a result of various important factors that have been set forth in the company's most recent reports filed with the SEC, including our most recent quarterly report on Form 10-Q and our most recent earnings release. The company undertakes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements. Now I return the call to Hilton.