Gray Media, Inc.

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the Gray Media Conference call. If you know you'd like to ask a question, you may do so at any time during the call by pressing star 1 on your telephone keypad. Once 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 our chairman and CEO, Hilton Howell, Jr. HILTON HOWELL JR.:

: Thank you, operator. Good morning, everyone. As the operator mentioned, I'm Hilton Howell, the chairman and CEO of Gray Television. Thank you all for joining our second 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 Latek, our chief legal and development officer, and Jeff Chignak, who succeeded Jim Ryan as our chief financial officer on the 1st of July. As usual, we will begin with the disclaimer that Kevin will provide.

Thank you, Hilton. Good morning, everyone. Gray Television, commonly known as Gray Media or Gray, uses its website as a key source of company information. The website address is www.graymedia.com. We will file our quarterly report on Form 10-Q with the SEC today. We issued an updated investor presentation this morning that can be found on our website under investor relations. Included on the call may be a 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 posted on our website, are reconciliations of these financial measures to the GAAP measures reported in our financial statements. Certain matters discussed on this call 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 or implied 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. And I now turn the call to Hilton.