TEGNA buildings

[ProduceGuy 31]

Say what you will about their operations, but some TEGNA stations have very impressive buildings. Yes, all of these are from the Gannett days and date back to the early 90s. Does anyone know the story behind these? Except for KUSA, not one is a market leader, but Gannett wasn’t afraid to spend some cash. 
 

Some of my favorite (buildings): WCNC, KUSA, WUSA, WKYC

[mre29 1967]

WCNC was only briefly a Gannett station before the TV side split off and became Tegna, but yeah, those are nice-looking buildings. (That said, I think WKYC's building would look better if the logo on it matched the 3 on the weather tower.)

 

[Recovering Producer 410]

I’ve always been curious what purpose the covered walkway from the North side of WUSA’s building to the brick wall back area of the McDonald’s next door served. 

[10Viewer 362]

LOL. WTSP and WTLV are not too impressive. Both built in the '60's if I recall. 

[tyrannical bastard 4676]

WKYC's building opened in 2001 after being on 6th St. in the old East Ohio Gas building that goes back to Westinghouse and KYW's time in Cleveland.

[MidwestTV 1358]

I believe, of all stations, WHAS in Louisville is one of the biggest in the entire company. Two full-sized studios (with two full sets even), and a third smaller one. Housed WHAS Radio for decades and had more radio booths in it too. It always surprised me they never tried to use them as a hub of some sort, there's a crap ton of space.  

 

As for KUSA, I've heard it's actually not that good of a building?

[carolinanews4 455]

WCNC’s building was built by The Providence Journal Company. The station moved to its present day home in 1991. ProJo had purchased the station in 1998 and broke ground on two new buildings in 1990. One building for WCNC and the other for the NBC News Channel. 
 

The move brought WCNC into Charlotte’s core. Since its inception it had been located in a northwest section of the city. At the time this was a fairly rural area. So the move to Billy Graham Parkway put WCNC on a more equal geographic footing with WBTV, WSOC, and WCCB.  WJZY was, and still is, located in the far west side of the county, separated from most the city’s population. 

Edited May 27 by carolinanews4
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[Megatron81 343]

I doubt WZZM news building is all that good looking but I don't know that for sure but they have a weather deck since that was TEGNA's thing to do. Is TEGNA HQ got a for sale sign up have higher ups moved out of HQ somewhere VA?

[TheRolyPoly 3509]

31 minutes ago, Megatron81 said:

I doubt WZZM news building is all that good looking but I don't know that for sure but they have a weather deck since that was TEGNA's thing to do. Is TEGNA HQ got a for sale sign up have higher ups moved out of HQ somewhere VA?

 

Don't forget the 13 Weather Ball. Iconic.

[Recovering Producer 410]

2 hours ago, Megatron81 said:

Is TEGNA HQ got a for sale sign up have higher ups moved out of HQ somewhere VA?

 

They definitely leased corporate office space in Tysons Corner. Washington Business Journal reported they downsized and moved a few blocks last year. https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2025/09/04/tysons-tegna-hq-relocation.html (paywalled link) Going to guess that new HQ was a relatively short term lease. 

[MichiganNewsGraphicsJunkie 1158]

On 5/18/2026 at 9:44 PM, Megatron81 said:

I doubt WZZM news building is all that good looking but I don't know that for sure but they have a weather deck since that was TEGNA's thing to do. Is TEGNA HQ got a for sale sign up have higher ups moved out of HQ somewhere VA?

I've been to WZZM's studios... WOOD has em beat by a mile... The only good thing is that WZZM is literally right next to I-96 for easy access while WOOD is on College Ave aways  from any highway access...

[tylerSC 67]

On 5/15/2026 at 10:03 PM, Recovering Producer said:

I’ve always been curious what purpose the covered walkway from the North side of WUSA’s building to the brick wall back area of the McDonald’s next door served. 

That McDonald's next to the WUSA Broadcast House used to be a classic Roy Rogers. Featuring the roast beef sandwich, burgers, and famous fried chicken. After the failed Hardee's conversion from Marriott it eventually became a McDonald's. I used to see the Channel 9 talent dining in there back in the day. Now most Roy Rogers remain in the distant DC suburbs in Northern Virginia and around Frederick, Maryland.

Edited May 26 by tylerSC

[tylerSC 67]

On 5/15/2026 at 11:23 PM, carolinanews4 said:

WCNC’s building was built by The Providence Journal Company. The station moved to its present day home in 1991. ProJo had purchased the station in 1998 and broke ground on two new buildings in 1990. One building for WCNC and the other for the NBC News Channel. 
 

The move brought WCNC into Charlotte’s core. Since its inception it had been located in a northwest section of the city. At the time this was a fairly rural area. So the move to Billy Graham Parkway put WCNC on a more equal geographic footing with WBTV, WSOC, and WCCB.  WJZY was, and still, is located in the far west side of the county, separated from most the city’s population. 

Around this time WCNC also built a tall 2000 ft tower west of Charlotte, giving them a much stronger signal and wider coverage area on par with WBTV. I receive strong OTA signals from WCNC, WBTV and WJZY in Spartanburg, SC even though WYFF, WSPA and WHNS are the official Upstate affiliates.

 

WCNC has a nice visual presentation, but still ranks behind market leaders WSOC and WBTV in the local news ratings. Is the NBC News Channel still located in the same building, or have those operations returned to DC and New York?

[Dave Lampstein 286]

Speaking of old Gannett properties, if you have $3m laying around you can buy KSDK's old building in downtown St Louis
https://www.cbre.com/resources/fileassets/US-SMPL-191835/0b9f369e/3eca36dc-0eef-4313-adae-df7facea907e.pdf

 

Almost worked there... but was turned off by what St Louis calls pizza.

[carolinanews4 455]

7 hours ago, tylerSC said:

Is the NBC News Channel still located in the same building, or have those operations returned to DC and New York?

NBC News Channel is still in Charlotte and still off Billy Graham Parkway. But WCNC and News Channel are in two separate buildings with separate addresses. They are on the same plot of land and are connected via a conduit tray that carries cables between the two structures. 
 

I doubt NBC would ever move it to DC or NY because the Charlotte operation is in a right to work state (meaning its a nonunion shop) which allows it to operate cheaper than if it were in NYC. But its long term financial viability could be shaky with Nexstar pulling out. The NBC Nexstar stations aren’t the huge loss, it’s the potential loss of TEGNA stations. If Gray were to also end their contract with News Channel, it isn’t hard to imagine it being shut down. 

Edited May 26 by carolinanews4
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[alaskanews 159]

On 5/15/2026 at 7:42 PM, MidwestTV said:

As for KUSA, I've heard it's actually not that good of a building?

 

It was built in 1993, so it's a bit dated now, but I always found it to be a nice place. It's mostly a single floor so there's a LOT of walking and long hallways.

[tyrannical bastard 4676]

10 hours ago, tylerSC said:

That McDonald's next to the WUSA Broadcast House used to be a classic Roy Rogers. Featuring the roast beef sandwich, burgers, and famous fried chicken. After the failed Hardee's conversion from Marriott it eventually became a McDonald's. I used to see the Channel 9 talent dining in there back in the day. Now most Roy Rogers remain in the distant DC suburbs in Northern Virginia and around Frederick, Maryland.

I vaguely remember this when it was still a Roy Rogers.  It's right off the Tenleytown Metro stop on the red line, and American University is right down the street from there.

 

There was also a triangle-shaped Sears store that was still open at the time. It later closed and was replaced by a Best Buy (my last visit back in 2003).  That also closed and is now a Target.

How close were the "Broadcast House" locations to each other?  This would have been early 1992 so it may have been after they just moved into the newer one.

Edited May 26 by tyrannical bastard

[NYAZSporty 196]

KPNX has their building in Downtown Phoenix (one of 2 stations that call DTPHX home along with KSAZ) on Van Buren & N 2nd St. which was shared by the Arizona Republic newspaper before they moved last year to Midtown. That area could soon become a hotspot with development taking shape around there & the Central Avenue area couple of blocks to the West where the light rail is.

[mre29 1967]

4 hours ago, Dave Lampstein said:

Almost worked there... but was turned off by what St Louis calls pizza.

 

 Yeah, that looks messy -- especially if you're not used to eating pizza in that shape.

 

[atlnewsfan03 93]

Here in Atlanta, WXIA and WATL have been operating out of the Monroe Place broadcasting facilities since July 2008 when TEGNA predecessor Gannett bought WATL from Tribune some 2 years prior (in 2006), and Gannett extensively renovated the long-time WATL broadcasting facility, and the old WXIA facility on West Peachtree Street (and right next door to Cox Media Group ABC affiliate WSB) was sold and reopened as a school specializing in media production and studies.  The number of times I've passed by WXIA-WATL studios, which appears to be located on a hill overlooking I-85 and Buford-Spring Connector, doesn't look to be very big.  I doubt that Nexstar or whoever WXIA-WATL's eventual new owner is after TEGNA case is settled plans to leave that facility anytime soon.

Of the competing Atlanta stations, WSB appears to have a big facility (for both TV and radio) that was built and opened in July 1998.  Fox O&O WAGA has been at Briarcliff Road since Summer 1966, and it appears to be a decent sized building.  Gray Media's WANF has been at 14th Street since March 2001 and that looks to be a decent sized building.  CBS O&O WUPA appears to be in an office complex on Southbound I-85 Access Road, and appears to be on a hill with trees blocking the view from the main entrance, and my guess is the space to be small, and I'd imagine CBS moving its Atlanta operations to newer location in the next couple of years.

[DENDude 259]

On 5/15/2026 at 8:42 PM, MidwestTV said:

As for KUSA, I've heard it's actually not that good of a building?

It's a very large building, it was an old Armory before KUSA built there, so part of the studios are part of the old armory.   It was the largest news room in Denver before FOX Television Stations, LLC & KDVR built there current home.

The KUSA studios have 2 or 3 floors (one floor is non news and is for the sales dept).

[Dave Lampstein 286]

Thought you guys might appreciate these. They actually don't include the studio portion of the building along the back of the building though.

 

 

Edited May 26 by Dave Lampstein

[newsdude 68]

4 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said:

How close were the "Broadcast House" locations to each other?  This would have been early 1992 so it may have been after they just moved into the newer one.

Just a few blocks apart. Old location is conveniently near the OB/GYN on top. Current location is at the bottom. Sounds like the plan is to house the combined WUSA/WDCW operation in the current WUSA studios. 

[TennTV1983 870]

WBIR in Knoxville has a fairly large facility in the Belle Morris area of town. This along with WATE, which operates inside of a historic mansion, are probably this nicest-looking studios of the three news operations.

 

 

[Weeters 2173]

On 5/26/2026 at 9:20 AM, carolinanews4 said:

NBC News Channel is still in Charlotte and still off Billy Graham Parkway. But WCNC and News Channel are in two separate buildings with separate addresses. They are on the same plot of land and are connected via a conduit tray that carries cables between the two structures. 
 

I doubt NBC would ever move it to DC or NY because the Charlotte operation is in a right to work state (meaning its a nonunion shop) which allows it to operate cheaper than if it were in NYC. But its long term financial viability could be shaky with Nexstar pulling out. The NBC Nexstar stations aren’t the huge loss, it’s the potential loss of TEGNA stations. If Gray were to also end their contract with News Channel, it isn’t hard to imagine it being shut down. 

NBC NewsChannel vacated that facility in early December 2023.  NewsChannel is largely a remote/work from home operation now (though still "based" in Charlotte,) from what I have heard. 

 

NBC's Mark Barger posted photos of the empty newsroom at the time.

 

If you look at that building on Google Earth, the last time the parking lot had any significant number of cars in it was 2019, with some improvement in 2023. StreetView shows it empty in 2025 after the June 2022 pass. They probably went WFH for the Covid pandemic and never looked back. 

 

There was some rumors circulating that they re-purposed the building for the Tegna Stream Center, but I find it unlikely that they replaced the existing facility that opened in 2021 already. Perhaps a combined Nexstar/Tegna would use it for some kind of mega-hub.