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Note 5 - Retirement Plans | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2017
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 defined benefit pension plan for the three -month periods ended March 31, 2017 and 2016, respectively (in thousands):
|  | Three Months Ended March 31, |
|  | 2017 |  |  | 2016 |
Interest cost |  | $ | 807 |  |  | $ | 1,184 |
Expected return on plan assets |  |  | (976 | ) |  |  | (1,297 | )
Loss amortization |  |  | 84 |  |  |  | 153 |
Net periodic benefit cost |  | $ | (85 | ) |  | $ | 40 |
During the three -months ended March 31, 2017, we contributed $0.6 million to our defined benefit pension plan. During the remainder of 2017, we expect to contribute $1.7 million to this plan. During the three -month period ended March 31, 2017, we contributed $1.9 million in matching contributions to our defined contribution plan, the Gray Television, Inc. Capital Accumulation Plan. During the remainder of 2017, we expect to contribute $5.9 million to this plan, excluding discretionary profit-sharing contributions.

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