Local Now adds USA Today channels to streaming service
Local Now is adding two new channels from Gannett Company’s USA Today Network.
Gannett Company
Gannett Company ($GCI) is one of the largest owners of local and regional newspaper outlets in the United States. The company owns more than 100 daily and weekly newspapers across the country, as well as the coast-to-coast newspaper USA Today. Gannett is also the operator of the USA Today Channel, a free, ad-supported streaming television network. The company is headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia.
Until 2015, Gannett also operated a large network of local broadcast television stations. The television station group was spun off into a separate company called TEGNA.
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