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<p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><b xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><i xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Grand opening set for Wednesday, July 22 — expanding Local 4&#39;s hyper-local coverage across Plymouth and the surrounding Western Wayne County communities</i></b></p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="legendSpanClass">PLYMOUTH, Mich.</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="legendSpanClass">July 21, 2026</span> /PRNewswire/ -- WDIV Local 4, Detroit&#39;s NBC affiliate and a Graham Media Group station, today opens Fourgrounds, a first-of-its-kind coffee shop and satellite newsroom in downtown Plymouth, with doors opening to the public on Wednesday, July 22 at 995 W. Ann Arbor Trail, Plymouth, Michigan.</p>
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<p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">It&#39;s a fair question: why would a TV station open a coffee shop?</p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Because journalism, at its best, is a promise to a community — to show up for it, to advocate for it, and to tell its stories honestly and well. That promise is harder to keep from behind a camera and a desk alone. Fourgrounds is Local 4&#39;s answer: a first-of-its-kind concept that plants a working newsroom inside a neighborhood coffee shop, so that promise can play out face to face. Our reporters and anchors don&#39;t just want to cover Plymouth and the surrounding communities — they want to sit down in them, listen to them, and carry their stories forward.</p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Fourgrounds is built around that idea. It&#39;s a real coffee shop, first — serving locally roasted coffee through a partnership with Great Lakes Coffee, a Detroit-based roaster — but it also functions as a working satellite of Local 4&#39;s newsroom, giving the station a standing, physical presence in the community it covers. It&#39;s a model few, if any, local TV newsrooms in the country have tried: not a pop-up, not a one-time event, but a permanent space where journalism and daily life share the same room.</p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">And it&#39;s a standing invitation. Bring us the story you think Southeast Michigan needs to hear. Tell us who in your neighborhood deserves recognition, what issue deserves a spotlight, what&#39;s changing on your block that the rest of the region should know about. That&#39;s the job — and now there&#39;s a table for it.</p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">&#34;Journalism only works if a community trusts you enough to hand you their stories,&#34; said Stephanie Slagle, Vice President, Chief Revenue Officer and General Manager of WDIV Local 4. &#34;Fourgrounds gives our reporters and anchors a place to earn that trust in person — to sit down with the people of Plymouth and the surrounding communities, hear what matters to them, and go tell those stories the way they deserve to be told.&#34;</p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><b xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Grand opening details:</b></p><ul xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" type="disc"><li xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><b xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Date: </b>Wednesday, July 22</li><li xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><b xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Location: </b>Fourgrounds, 995 W. Ann Arbor Trail, Plymouth, Michigan</li><li xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><b xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Hours: </b>M-Sa 7a-5p, Su 9a-5p</li></ul><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">The community is invited to stop by for the opening, sit down with Local 4 reporters and anchors, and share the stories they want to see told. Fourgrounds will remain an ongoing home for that work — a place where residents of Plymouth, Canton, Northville, Novi, Livonia, and all surrounding communities can tell Local 4&#39;s journalists what deserves coverage, and where those stories can start.</p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">About WDIV Local 4</p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">WDIV Local 4 is Detroit&#39;s NBC affiliate and a property of Graham Media Group. For decades, Local 4 has delivered news, weather, and community coverage across Southeast Michigan, with a continued commitment to being a trusted, visible presence in the neighborhoods it serves.</p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">About Graham Media Group</p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Graham Media Group is a local media company dedicated to informing and celebrating the communities it serves. The company is made up of seven local media outlets — KPRC (Houston), WDIV (Detroit), WSLS (Roanoke), KSAT (San Antonio), WKMG (Orlando), WJXT (Jacksonville), and WCWJ (Jacksonville) — along with Graham Digital, Omne, and Social News Desk, delivering local news, programming, advertising solutions, and digital media tools across television, online, mobile, streaming, podcasts, and audio devices. Headquartered in Detroit, Graham Media Group is a subsidiary of Graham Holdings Company (NYSE:<a class="ticker" href="https://www.benzinga.com/quote/GHC">GHC</a>). Learn more at <a xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" href="https://edge.prnewswire.com/c/link/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=4736084-1&amp;h=1144350962&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.grahammedia.com%2F&amp;a=www.grahammedia.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">www.grahammedia.com</a>.</p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">About Fourgrounds</p><p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Fourgrounds is a first-of-its-kind coffee shop and satellite newsroom in downtown Plymouth, Michigan, created by WDIV Local 4 in partnership with Great Lakes Coffee. It serves as a gathering space for Plymouth and the surrounding Western Wayne County communities and an extension of Local 4&#39;s commitment to local connection.</p>
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WDIV Local 4 Brings Its Newsroom Closer to Home with Fourgrounds, a First-of-Its-Kind Newsroom-and-Coffee-Shop Concept in Downtown Plymouth

Graham Media launches Fourgrounds satellite newsroom, signaling scalable local media model

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    <p>Graham Holdings Company’s Graham Media Group unveiled Fourgrounds, a coffee shop and permanent satellite newsroom in downtown Plymouth, MI. The initiative aims to strengthen local engagement by housing reporters in the community and inviting residents to share stories. If scalable, the concept could inform future Graham media ventures and potential new revenue streams over the long term.</p>
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    <ul><li>Graham Media Group opens Fourgrounds, a coffee shop and satellite newsroom in Plymouth.</li><li>The concept blends journalism with a community space to gather local stories.</li><li>Grand opening scheduled for July 22 at 995 W. Ann Arbor Trail, Plymouth, MI.</li><li>Graham Holdings Company (GHC) is the parent; signals potential local-media innovation.</li><li>First-of-its-kind model may inform future Graham media ventures.</li></ul>
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    <ul><li><strong>Graham Holdings Company (GHC)</strong>: Parent company; strategic initiatives in local-media assets could affect valuation over time.</li><li><strong>Graham Media Group (N/A)</strong>: Subsidiary driving the Fourgrounds concept; potential asset-light growth strategy.</li><li><strong>WDIV Local 4 (N/A)</strong>: Detroit NBC affiliate; expansion may broaden Graham&#039;s local-market footprint.</li><li><strong>Fourgrounds (N/A)</strong>: First-of-its-kind coffee shop and satellite newsroom; potential replication in other markets.</li><li><strong>Great Lakes Coffee (N/A)</strong>: Detroit-based roaster partnering to supply locally roasted coffee.</li></ul>
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    <p>Category: Corporate Developments. It reflects a strategic, branded expansion within Graham’s media assets rather than immediate earnings news, signaling potential long-term monetization and audience-growth opportunities.</p>
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    <ul><li>Possible revenue/advertising uplift if the model scales beyond Plymouth.</li><li>No revenue or capex figures disclosed; immediate price impact uncertain.</li><li>If scaled, could diversify Graham&#039;s local-advertising revenue mix.</li></ul>
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    <ul><li>Grand opening: July 22, 2026.</li><li>Location: 995 W. Ann Arbor Trail, Plymouth, Michigan.</li><li>Fourgrounds is a coffee shop and satellite newsroom.</li><li>Partnership with Great Lakes Coffee, a Detroit-based roaster.</li><li>Graham Media Group is a subsidiary of Graham Holdings Company (NYSE: GHC).</li></ul>
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    <p>Moderate, long-term upside for GHC if Fourgrounds scales; near-term impact modest.</p>
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    <h2>WDIV Local 4 Opens Fourgrounds in Plymouth, Blending Newsroom and Community Café</h2>
    <p>WDIV Local 4, Detroit's NBC affiliate and a <strong>Graham Media Group</strong> station, today opens Fourgrounds, a first-of-its-kind coffee shop and satellite newsroom in downtown Plymouth, with doors opening to the public on <strong>Wednesday, July 22</strong> at <strong>995 W. Ann Arbor Trail, Plymouth, Michigan</strong>. This move expands Local 4's hyper-local coverage across Plymouth and the surrounding Western Wayne County communities.</p>
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    <h3>Concept: A newsroom inside a neighborhood coffee shop</h3>
    <p>It’s a fair question: why would a TV station open a coffee shop?</p>
    <p>Because journalism, at its best, is a promise to a community — to show up for it, to advocate for it, and to tell its stories honestly and well. That promise is harder to keep from behind a camera and a desk alone. Fourgrounds is Local 4's answer: a first-of-its-kind concept that plants a working newsroom inside a neighborhood coffee shop, so that promise can play out face to face. Our reporters and anchors don't just want to cover Plymouth and the surrounding communities — they want to sit down in them, listen to them, and carry their stories forward.</p>
    <p>Fourgrounds is built around that idea. It's a real coffee shop, first — serving locally roasted coffee through a partnership with Great Lakes Coffee, a Detroit-based roaster — but it also functions as a working satellite of Local 4's newsroom, giving the station a standing, physical presence in the community it covers. It’s <em>a model few, if any, local TV newsrooms in the country have tried: not a pop-up, not a one-time event, but a permanent space where journalism and daily life share the same room.</em></p>
    <p>And it's a standing invitation. Bring us the story you think Southeast Michigan needs to hear. Tell us who in your neighborhood deserves recognition, what issue deserves a spotlight, what's changing on your block that the rest of the region should know about. That's the job — and now there's a table for it.</p>
    <p>“Journalism only works if a community trusts you enough to hand you their stories,” said Stephanie Slagle, Vice President, Chief Revenue Officer and General Manager of WDIV Local 4. “Fourgrounds gives our reporters and anchors a place to earn that trust in person — to sit down with the people of Plymouth and the surrounding communities, hear what matters to them, and go tell those stories the way they deserve to be told.”</p>
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      <li><strong>Date:</strong> Wednesday, July 22</li>
      <li><strong>Location:</strong> Fourgrounds, 995 W. Ann Arbor Trail, Plymouth, Michigan</li>
      <li><strong>Hours:</strong> M-Sa 7a-5p, Su 9a-5p</li>
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    <p>The community is invited to stop by for the opening, sit down with Local 4 reporters and anchors, and share the stories they want to see told. Fourgrounds will remain an ongoing home for that work — a place where residents of Plymouth, Canton, Northville, Novi, Livonia, and all surrounding communities can tell Local 4's journalists what deserves coverage, and where those stories can start.</p>
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    <h3>Corporate background and community role</h3>
    <p><strong>WDIV Local 4</strong> is Detroit's NBC affiliate and a property of <strong>Graham Media Group</strong>. For decades, Local 4 has delivered news, weather, and community coverage across Southeast Michigan, with a continued commitment to being a trusted, visible presence in the neighborhoods it serves.</p>
    <p><strong>Graham Media Group</strong> is a local media company dedicated to informing and celebrating the communities it serves. The company is made up of seven local media outlets — KPRC (Houston), WDIV (Detroit), WSLS (Roanoke), KSAT (San Antonio), WKMG (Orlando), WJXT (Jacksonville), and WCWJ (Jacksonville) — along with Graham Digital, Omne, and Social News Desk, delivering local news, programming, advertising solutions, and digital media tools across television, online, mobile, streaming, podcasts, and audio devices. Headquartered in Detroit, <strong>Graham Media Group</strong> is a subsidiary of <strong>Graham Holdings Company</strong> (<strong>NYSE: GHC</strong>). Learn more at <a href="https://www.grahammedia.com/">www.grahammedia.com</a>.</p>
    <p><strong>About Fourgrounds</strong></p>
    <p>Fourgrounds is a first-of-its-kind coffee shop and satellite newsroom in downtown Plymouth, Michigan, created by WDIV Local 4 in partnership with Great Lakes Coffee. It serves as a gathering space for Plymouth and the surrounding Western Wayne County communities and an extension of Local 4's commitment to local connection.</p>
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Graham Holdings Company’s Graham Media Group unveiled Fourgrounds, a coffee shop and permanent satellite newsroom in downtown Plymouth, MI. The initiative aims to strengthen local engagement by housing reporters in the community and inviting residents to share stories. If scalable, the concept could inform future Graham media ventures and potential new revenue streams over the long term.

WDIV Local 4 Brings Its Newsroom Closer to Home with Fourgrounds, a First-of-Its-Kind Newsroom-and-Coffee-Shop Concept in Downtown Plymouth

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