Granite City Roller Girls 1st in Tier 3 North. The Fights went on to Tier 3 Playoffs and placed 3rd overall. Granite City Roller Girls "Granite City Roller Derby" (GCRD) is a roller derby league based in Aberdeen, Scotland. Founded in 2007, the league currently have two teams which compete with teams from other leagues. Originating as the Aberdeen Aces, GCRD were the second established roller derby league in Scotland. The league struggled in the early days to find a training hall to practice in and resorted to skating in a local car park when weather allowed. In November 2008, the league began skating
Granite Broadcasting Granite Broadcasting Granite Broadcasting Corporation is a broadcasting holding company in New York City which owns one television station in the United States, in Syracuse, New York. Granite was founded by W. Don Cornwell and Stuart Beck in 1988 , and was the first African-American station group in the United States considered to be a "major" station operator (though not the first minority-owned chain, a distinction held by the now-defunct Aleut-owned Cook Inlet Broadcasting). Granite's chairman/CEO is Peter Markham, with Duane Lammers as COO. Granite declared Chapter 11 (reorganization) bankruptcy on December 11, 2006, mainly due to the complications of