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Note 5 - Retirement Plans | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2016
Notes to Financial Statements |
Pension and Other Postretirement Benefits Disclosure [Text Block] | 5 . Retirement Plans The following table provides the components of net periodic benefit cost for our pension plans for the three-month and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2016 and 2015, respectively (in thousands):
|  | Three Months Ended |  |  | Nine Months Ended |
|  | September 30, |  |  | September 30, |
|  | 2016 |  |  | 2015 |  |  | 2016 |  |  | 2015 |
Service cost |  | $ | - |  |  | $ | - |  |  | $ | - |  |  | $ | 3,116 |
Interest cost |  |  | 1,185 |  |  |  | - |  |  |  | 3,554 |  |  |  | 4,448 |
Expected return on plan assets |  |  | (1,298 | ) |  |  | - |  |  |  | (3,892 | ) |  |  | (5,114 | )
Loss amortization |  |  | 153 |  |  |  | - |  |  |  | 458 |  |  |  | 1,740 |
Net periodic benefit cost |  | $ | 40 |  |  | $ | - |  |  | $ | 120 |  |  | $ | 4,190 |
During the nine-month period ended September 30, 2016, we contributed $3.0 million to our defined benefit pension plans. During the remainder of 2016, we do not expect to make further contributions to these plans. During the three and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2016, we contributed $1.5 million and $4.1 million, respectively, in matching contributions to our defined contribution plan, the Gray Television, Inc. Capital Accumulation Plan. During the remainder of 2016, we estimate that our contributions will be approximately $1.4 million to this plan, excluding discretionary profit-sharing contributions.

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