Outlet track record
Gray Media / KOTA-TV
U.S. center, locally oriented
Gray Media, Inc. is one of the largest owners of local broadcast television stations in the United States, reaching roughly 37 percent of U.S. TV households. KOTA-TV (channel 3, ABC affiliate) in Rapid City, South Dakota has been part of the Gray portfolio since February 2016, when Gray acquired it from Schurz Communications. Gray's stations, including KOTA-TV, focus heavily on local news and are generally rated by media-bias organizations as minimally biased; coverage of the Trump administration's second term has been largely neutral and locally framed rather than nationally adversarial or supportive.
Owned byGray Media, Inc. (publicly traded, NYSE: GTN), chaired and led by CEO Hilton H. Howell Jr.; KOTA-TV is one of roughly 180 local stations Gray owns or operates across more than 113 U.S. markets
LeaningU.S. center, locally oriented
On the administrationmostly neutral
3average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun