---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-23-010325"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GTN"
cik: "0000043196"
company_name: "GRAY MEDIA, INC"
filed_at: "2023-04-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-17T02:13:49.794216+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Gray Television EVP & COO Bob Smith retires, resigns effective April 13

## Summary
- Bob Smith, EVP and COO, retired and resigned on April 13, 2023.
- No successor or interim COO named in the filing.
- Retirement described as voluntary; no cause of departure cited.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-23-010325
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GTN
- cik: 0000043196
- company_name: GRAY MEDIA, INC
- filed_at: 2023-04-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/43196/000143774923010325/0001437749-23-010325-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/43196/000143774923010325/gtn20230413_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-23-010325.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Robert L. Smith resigned as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at GRAY MEDIA, INC.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
  source text: On April 14, 2023, Gray Television, Inc. (the “Company”) reported that Robert L. (“Bob”) Smith, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company, had decided to retire, and resigned on April 13, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/43196/000143774923010325/0001437749-23-010325-index.htm

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