EVANSVILLE – One Evansville news station is trying to buy another.

Gray Media, the parent company behind WFIE-NBC14, announced Friday it had reached a deal to purchase 10 television stations owned by Allen Media Group. One of those is WEVV in Evansville, the CBS and FOX affiliate that currently airs on channel 44.

And it appears Gray intends to keep both stations running, at least for now.

The news release said the purchases would allow the company to reach three new markets and expand its offerings in seven others. Evansville is among the latter. The move would "strengthen the company’s presence" by "creating new duopolies that would allow Gray to preserve and deepen public service to their communities with expanded local news, local weather, and local sports programming," the releas

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