Published mark

SAGA COMMUNICATIONS INC

NASDAQ: SGA. Canonical company identity and public leadership record.

US

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Alpha ID
alpha:company:ee5009cc-07b1-464c-94ac-4ab3277b6693
SEC CIK
0000886136
Record version
vpublic-1:d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce:ro-d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce, published Oct 12, 2026
Newest evidence
Apr 20, 2026
Monitoring
Not yet monitored Details
Integrity
Not yet signed Methodology
CEO
Christopher S. ForgySince Apr 14, 2026
Chair
Not published
Independent
6 / 77 directors published
Published claims
233 distinct sources
Evidence records
70 pinned
Source conflicts
0None open

Built from 3 distinct sources and 7 evidence records. Every Claim links to where it appears. Where nothing was published, the record states the coverage gap.

CorroboratedSource reportedAlpha inferenceNot disclosed

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EXECUTIVE APPOINTED

Catherine A. Bobinski executive of SAGA COMMUNICATIONS INC, effective 2026-04-14.

EffectiveEffective Apr 14, 2026E3

Monitoring

Continuous

What the published record states about identity, evidence, evaluation, monitoring, authority, and freshness. Watched-source schedules are not published for this record.

  • Identityunclaimed
    Published
  • Evidencesource_reported
    Published
  • Evaluationnot_evaluated
    Published
  • MonitoringNot yet published for this record.
    Not published
  • AuthorityNot yet published for this record.
    Not published
  • Freshnesscurrent
    Published

Leadership

Evidence
RolePersonSinceStatusClaim
Senior Vice President/Finance, Chief Accounting Officer and Corporate ControllerCatherine A. BobinskiApr 2026currentSource reportedE3
President, Chief Executive Officer; DirectorChristopher S. ForgyApr 2026currentSource reportedE4
Executive Vice President, Treasurer and Chief Financial OfficerSamuel D. BushApr 2026currentSource reportedE5
Chief Operating OfficerWayne LelandApr 2026currentSource reportedE6

Board of directors

Evidence

7 directors published. 6 of 7 with a published determination are independent.

DirectorStatusSinceCommitteesClaim
Christopher S. ForgyNot independent2022None publishedSource reportedE2
Clarke R. Brown, Jr.Independent2004Compensation, chairCompensation · Chair; Nominating and GovernanceNominating and GovernanceSource reportedE2
Gregory D. SutherlandIndependent2025None publishedSource reportedE2
Michael ScafidiIndependent2025None publishedSource reportedE2
Michael W. SchechterIndependent2023None publishedSource reportedE2
Roy F. Coppedge IIIIndependent2013CompensationCompensation; Nominating and Governance · ChairNominating and Governance, chairSource reportedE2
Warren S. LadaIndependent2018CompensationSource reportedE2
Timothy J. ClarkeIndependentNot publishedNone publishedSource reportedE2

Committees and risk ownership

Evidence
CommitteeChairMembersRisks assigned
CompensationClarke R. Brown, Jr.Clarke R. Brown, Jr., Roy F. Coppedge III, Warren S. LadaNot described in the published record
Compensation · Chair; Nominating and GovernanceNot publishedClarke R. Brown, Jr.Not described in the published record
Compensation; Nominating and Governance · ChairNot publishedRoy F. Coppedge IIINot described in the published record
Nominating and GovernanceRoy F. Coppedge IIIRoy F. Coppedge III, Clarke R. Brown, Jr.Not described in the published record
Committee RecordCompensation: Chair Clarke R. Brown, Jr.; Members Clarke R. Brown, Jr. (Chair); Roy F. Coppedge III; Warren S. Lada
Source reportedE7
company:ee5009cc-07b1-464c-94ac-4ab3277b6693:committee_record:17
Committee AppointmentClarke R. Brown, Jr.: chair, Compensation
Source reportedE7
company:ee5009cc-07b1-464c-94ac-4ab3277b6693:committee_appointment:18
Committee AppointmentRoy F. Coppedge III: member, Compensation
Source reportedE7
company:ee5009cc-07b1-464c-94ac-4ab3277b6693:committee_appointment:19
Committee AppointmentWarren S. Lada: member, Compensation
Source reportedE7
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Committee RecordNominating and Governance: Chair Roy F. Coppedge III; Members Roy F. Coppedge III (Chair); Clarke R. Brown, Jr.
Source reportedE7
company:ee5009cc-07b1-464c-94ac-4ab3277b6693:committee_record:21
Committee AppointmentRoy F. Coppedge III: chair, Nominating and Governance
Source reportedE7
company:ee5009cc-07b1-464c-94ac-4ab3277b6693:committee_appointment:22
Committee AppointmentClarke R. Brown, Jr.: member, Nominating and Governance
Source reportedE7
company:ee5009cc-07b1-464c-94ac-4ab3277b6693:committee_appointment:23

Control and voting power

Evidence

No published claims

Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.

Authority to act

Evidence and agent registry

Who can act for the company, and on whose authority. This is what a counterparty's agent checks before it accepts an order, signs, or pays.

Principal executive officerChristopher S. Forgy, President, Chief Executive Officer; Director, from Apr 14, 2026
Source reportedE4
company:ee5009cc-07b1-464c-94ac-4ab3277b6693:leadership_role:14
Who can authorize an agentNot assessedNo Alpha inference about signing authority or board-reserved matters is published for this record.
Not assessed
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AI agents registered by the companyNot registered in the public RegistryAgent Deployments, Agent Use Cases, Authority Grants, TrustChecks, Action Ledger entries and Governance Receipts live in the private enterprise overlay. They are never projected into the public Registry without explicit cross-plane authorization. Absence here is a plane boundary, not evidence that the enterprise operates no agents.
Agent registry
agents
Delegations publishedNot disclosedBoard and officer delegation resolutions are not public filings and are not published in this record.
Search scope
delegations

Financials and market context

Evidence
Security ListingSGA (NASDAQ)
Source reportedE1
company:ee5009cc-07b1-464c-94ac-4ab3277b6693:security_listing:24
Index membershipsNo current membership is published in Alpha's tracked index universe.This is not evidence that the company is absent from every market index.
None publishedAs of Oct 12, 2026. Rights-filtered public evidence only; no redistribution or model training is granted. Only source-backed memberships with an explicit public redistribution basis are returned.

Governance and policies

Evidence

No published claims

Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.

Risk, audit, and cyber

Evidence

No published claims

Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.

AI oversight and accountability

Evidence

No published claims

Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.

Compensation

Evidence

No published claims

Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.

Other published claims

Evidence

Published Claims that belong to no section above. Each keeps its permalink, evidence, and assertion state.

Legal NameSAGA COMMUNICATIONS INC
Source reportedE1
company:ee5009cc-07b1-464c-94ac-4ab3277b6693:legal_name:1
Entity StatusPublic listing published
Source reportedE1
company:ee5009cc-07b1-464c-94ac-4ab3277b6693:entity_status:3

Not yet in this record

Coverage

A gap is a coverage state, not a negative finding. These sections are expected for this entity class and are not yet published.

  • Corporate structureNot reviewed. Parent, subsidiary and predecessor structure explains who is governed.
  • OwnershipNot reviewed. Ownership and voting power determine who can influence the board.
  • FinancialsNot reviewed. Governance-relevant financial context frames capital and audit decisions.
  • CompensationNot reviewed. Pay design shows how incentives are governed.
  • GovernanceNot reviewed. Governing documents and provisions set the rules of the enterprise.
  • Shareholder governanceNot reviewed. Meeting and vote records show shareholder dissent and support.
  • AuditNot reviewed. Auditor, controls and restatements show assurance over reporting.
  • LegalNot reviewed. Material legal and regulatory matters show enforcement exposure.
  • RiskNot reviewed. Risk ownership links the board, committees, executives and controls.
  • CyberNot reviewed. Cyber and data governance is a disclosed oversight domain.
  • AI governanceNot reviewed. AI oversight is a differentiated Alpha governance domain.
  • Markets externalNot reviewed. Auditors, advisors, investors and regulators form the external ecosystem.
  • Absence of a leadership role, committee, or disclosure is not evidence that it does not exist.Absence of a leadership role, committee, or disclosure is not evidence that it does not exist.
  • Only explicitly published canonical company identity and current confirmed public roles are included.Only explicitly published canonical company identity and current confirmed public roles are included.
  • Absence of a board, committee, executive, listing, or claim is not evidence that it does not exist.Absence of a board, committee, executive, listing, or claim is not evidence that it does not exist.
  • Public retrieval does not grant redistribution, model-training, direct-contact, or relationship-pathfinding rights.Public retrieval does not grant redistribution, model-training, direct-contact, or relationship-pathfinding rights.
  • This Company Profile is an identity and evidence record, not an Alpha rating.This Company Profile is an identity and evidence record, not an Alpha rating.

Subject and corrections

Public-role doctrine

This record exists because the company is in the published Registry. The company can claim the record, correct, or dispute any Claim. Corrections are versioned and the original stays in history.

Basis
Published company record built from public sources
Sources
7 evidence records cited. 0 with redistribution rights.
Never published
Private enterprise overlay data: deployments, authority grants, TrustChecks, receipts, telemetry
Record claimed
No
Open disputes
0
Identity ownership
unclaimed
Claiming not yet available

If the company claims the record, its statements appear as their own assertion state and never overwrite the cited evidence.

Evidence

Authority and rights
  1. E1
    Alpha canonical company public projection
    Alpha canonical company public projection. canonical identity. Retrieved Oct 12, 2026. Cited by 4 Claims.
    Open web
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  2. E2
    SAGA COMMUNICATIONS INC DEF 14A 2026-04-20
    sec proxy. Published Apr 20, 2026. Retrieved Apr 24, 2026. Cited by 8 Claims.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  3. E3
    SGA 10-K executive officers
    sec filing. Published Apr 14, 2026. Retrieved May 16, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  4. E4
    SGA 10-K executive officers
    sec filing. Published Apr 14, 2026. Retrieved May 16, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  5. E5
    SGA 10-K executive officers
    sec filing. Published Apr 14, 2026. Retrieved May 16, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  6. E6
    SGA 10-K executive officers
    sec filing. Published Apr 14, 2026. Retrieved May 16, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned
  7. E7
    Compensation
    board_seats. board seats. Cited by 7 Claims.
    Authoritative, regulatory filing
    Rights not recorded, link only
    Evidence not pinned

What changed in version public-1:d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce:ro-d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce

vpublic-1:d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce:ro-d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce published Oct 12, 2026
  • Catherine A. Bobinski executive of SAGA COMMUNICATIONS INC, effective 2026-04-14.
  • Christopher S. Forgy executive of SAGA COMMUNICATIONS INC, effective 2026-04-14.
  • Samuel D. Bush executive of SAGA COMMUNICATIONS INC, effective 2026-04-14.
  • Wayne Leland executive of SAGA COMMUNICATIONS INC, effective 2026-04-14.
  • Gregory D. Sutherland seat on SAGA COMMUNICATIONS INC, effective 2025-01-01.
  • Michael Scafidi seat on SAGA COMMUNICATIONS INC, effective 2025-01-01.
  • Michael W. Schechter seat on SAGA COMMUNICATIONS INC, effective 2023-01-01.
  • Christopher S. Forgy seat on SAGA COMMUNICATIONS INC, effective 2022-01-01.
  • Warren S. Lada seat on SAGA COMMUNICATIONS INC, effective 2018-01-01.
  • Roy F. Coppedge III seat on SAGA COMMUNICATIONS INC, effective 2013-01-01.
  • Compensation; Nominating and Governance · Chair committee of SAGA COMMUNICATIONS INC, effective 2013-01-01.
  • Roy F. Coppedge III member of Compensation; Nominating and Governance · Chair, effective 2013-01-01.
  • Clarke R. Brown, Jr. seat on SAGA COMMUNICATIONS INC, effective 2004-01-01.
  • Compensation · Chair; Nominating and Governance committee of SAGA COMMUNICATIONS INC, effective 2004-01-01.
  • Clarke R. Brown, Jr. member of Compensation · Chair; Nominating and Governance, effective 2004-01-01.
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  1. Overview
  2. Monitoring4
  3. Leadership4
  4. Board8
  5. Committees4
  6. Control and voting0
  7. Authority to act4
  8. Financials1
  9. Governance0
  10. Risk0
  11. AI oversight0
  12. Legal0
  13. Compensation0
  14. Other published claims3
  15. Coverage gaps17
  16. Linked people11
  17. Subject and corrections6
  18. Evidence7
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    SAGA COMMUNICATIONS INCCompany
  • Catherine A. BobinskiPerson
  • Christopher S. ForgyPerson
  • Samuel D. BushPerson
  • Wayne LelandPerson
  • Clarke R. Brown, Jr.Person
  • Gregory D. SutherlandPerson
  • Michael ScafidiPerson
  • Michael W. SchechterPerson
  • Roy F. Coppedge IIIPerson
  • Warren S. LadaPerson
  • Timothy J. ClarkePerson
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