By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com A federal judge has sided against Nexstar Media Group in a lawsuit filed by two of the broadcaster’s former news directors, finding the ex-employees have provided enough evidence to ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Nexstar Media Group announced that it has selected Ms. Becca Stevens as its 2026 “Remarkable Woman of the Year.” In a powerful tribute to resilience, leadership, and unshakable hope, ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Nexstar Media Group has launched a nation-wide news initiative that spotlights economic development and infrastructure investments across the country, according to The Desk. The initiative, called “Investing in America,” ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Nexstar Media Group has eliminated creative services positions at stations across its portfolio, according to accounts shared on social media by affected employees, and as reported by Newscast Studio. ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Nexstar Media Group has furnished documents to federal regulators about its proposed $6 billion acquisition of TEGNA and now expects the transaction to close in the second half of ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Calyn Thompson, an anchor/reporter at WHO, Nexstar’s NBC affiliate in Des Moines, posted on social media the station has started a new series on the WHO 13 Digital Desk ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Nexstar’s television stations serving Illinois will carry an exclusive live multi-market telecast of a debate between the leading candidates running for the Democratic Party nomination for United States Senator ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Tonight, New Year’s Eve, Nexstar is airing an exclusive live New Year’s Eve special, “Coast-to-Coast Countdown 2026,” from 8:00 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. PT. The broadcast will be ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Nexstar CEO Perry Sook said he still fully expects the local TV giant’s pending deal to acquire rival Tegna will get approved despite some surprisingly adversarial comments recently ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com If you tune in to WBRE/WYOU, Nexstar’s NBC affiliate and Mission Broadcasting’s CBS affiliate in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, to catch the early morning news show with co-hosts ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Perry Sook, the CEO and chairman of the largest local television and digital media company in the United States, Nexstar, sat down for a series of interviews ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Nexstar Media Group announced today that its Board of Directors extended the employment agreement of its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Perry A. Sook, through March 31, ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Everybody in broadcasting wants to know what Perry Sook thinks. As founder and chairman of Nexstar, the largest local broadcasting and media company in the United ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com KXAN, Nexstar’s NBC affiliate in Austin, has just released two new promos, one for the investigative unit and the other for the morning news, that make liberal use ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Joany D’Agostino was under a lot of pressure, and she knew it. “I joked this had to be the best promo I ever made,” D’Agostino says. “When ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com WGN, Nexstar’s CW affiliate in Chicago, is launching a new hour-long weekday show called WGN Take Two, starting Monday, September 8 at 2pm CT. From viral moments ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com For 18 days, from June 9th through June 27th, Nexstar’s NBC affiliate in Elmira, New York, WETM, made local TV broadcasting history by being the first ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com During the school year in Rochester, in any given week, a teacher and a classroom of students are interrupted with a surprise. “That’s the fun part,” ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Jessica Haynie has been promoted to Vice President and General Manager of Nexstar’s Billings, Montana broadcast and digital operations (DMA #165). In her new role, Ms. Haynie ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com At the 88th Annual Virginia Association of Broadcasters (VAB) Summer Convention, Carol Ward, WAVY’s GM, and Eather White, Traffic Manager, were presented with awards. WAVY is Nexstar’s NBC ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Spencer Lane has been named vice president and general manager of Nexstar’s duopoly in Erie, WJET (ABC) and WFXP (Fox), according to the stations’ website. Lane ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Tina Castano has been promoted to VP/GM for Nexstar’s Fox affiliate in Burlington, Vermont, WFFF, Fox 44. Castano was the GM for Nexstar’s stations in Elmira, WETM, an NBA ...
By Paul Greeley 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Bailey Brautigan joins Nexstar’s ABC and Fox affiliates WJET and WFXP in Erie as news director after serving as Assistant News Director at WOWK, Nexstar’s CBS affiliate ...
By Paul Greeley, 817-578-6324, Paul@NewsBlues.com Derek Bavin is the new Executive Producer of Digital Marketing at KRON, Nexstar’s CW affiliate in San Francisco. Bavin moves to the Bay Area from KTXL, FOX40, Nexstar’s Fox ...
Nexstar’s KTLA is still trying to defend its botched handling of two weekend anchors, but the Los Angeles station has more than the Lynette Romer-Mark Mester drama on its list of “Things We Really ...
After being pushed out of primetime by the pending October addition of Chris Cuomo to the NewsNation prime-time lineup, Marni Hughes, a charter member of the Nexstar station’s news effort is experiencing something of ...
We’ve seen several reports now that the internal reaction at Nexstar’s NewsNation to the hiring/rescue of disgraced anchor Chris Cuomo is less-than-enthusiastic. In fact, staffers are said to be resisting, if not outright refusing, ...
Cable news veteran Jake Novak is one of several new hires announced by Nexstar’s NewsNation as the ratings-challenged continues to expand staff and production facilities in Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C. And presumably ...
No regulatory approval needed here. Nexstar now owns 75% of The CW and is already promising profits by 2025. Cheaper programming appealing to a broader audience and, most likely, a heaping dose of the ...
After Nexstar shelled out $130 million last year for DC digital news operation “The Hill” the question was….what would the company do with it. Meet The Hill TV, a streaming channel that features a ...
It’s none of your damned business what Perry Sook will be paid under the terms of his brand-spankin’ new contract extension at Nexstar. Just accept that he’ll be sticking around at least through 2026, ...
Well any day now…really…ANY. DAY. NOW we are told, expect to see Nexstar complete the deal that gives it majority control of The CW. Under the deal, Nexstar would own 75% of the network ...
It’s not just your Hagerstown tv station anymore. It’s DC News Now Nexstar is investing in duopoly WDVM/WDCW soon to be launched at DC News Now, hoping to make a dent inside the Beltway ...
While Nexstar CEO Perry Sook dreams of one day owning a broadcast network, he still has some issues to resolve with his ratings-challenged Chicago-based superstation NewsNation. Starting Monday, June 27th, NewsNation is adding an ...
It’s a full-time job keeping the executive suites at Nexstar’s stations occupied. One-time news director Joe Abouzeid moves within Nexstar to helm WIVB in Buffalo. His appointment puts the kibosh on rumors that the ...
Up to this point, Nexstar’s WDVM/WDCW in the hyphenated Hagerstown, MD-Washington, DC market has been sitting on the sidelines while the bigger, more established stations in the market duked it out. That’s about to ...
We have to give Nexstar some credit. They keep trying to get people to pay attention to ratings-starved NewsNation with high-profile hires. So far it hasn’t worked, but adding Dan Abrams to the mix ...
After telling you about the “roses and rainbows” portion of Nexstar’s first-quarter report, now is the time to look at a bud Mr. Sook and company hopes sprouts from the ratings-challenged thorn that is ...
First it was Gray, then came Tegna s/t/b Standard Media. And now it is Nexstar’s turn. The first quarter of 2022 saw the company’s net revenue rise 8.6% from the same quarter of 2021 ...
NewsNation waited until they had a win under their belt before announcing an election year partnership with Decision Desk HQ. Decision Desk HQ provides state by state polling data and serves as the NewsNation ...
Nexstar recently observed…quietly…the one-year anniversary of its lone cable subscription outlet’s transition from Superstation WGN into NewsNation Since its launch, NewsNation has been a nationwide outlet in search of an audience. To date, it’s ...
There’s a new news director opening in Dayton, OH at WDTN where Loni Blandford is leaving to join the Nexstar recruiting team. She’s been the ND there for 4 1/2 years and previously worked ...
After six years at Nexstar’s WWLP in western Massachusetts, reporter Mike Masciadrelli is now hitting the street for sister station WTNH in Hartford-New Haven, CT. http:// While in Massachusetts, Masciadrelli proved himself a reliable ...
When it comes to paying the people who actually do the work, Nexstar is a bit like that annoying guy you had lunch with who always seems to have misplaced his wallet. But when ...
Marc Hefner, a 14-year veteran of Nexstar management, is the new Vice-President and General Manager of the company’s KDAF in Dallas, TX…not far from company HQ in Irving. Hefner is coming to Dallas from ...
This coming Monday (September 27th) will see Nexstar’s “NewsNation” add another 20 hours of programming to its weekly lineup with the debut of two new programs. Starting off the day will be “Morning in ...
After three years of covering mainly education for Nexstar’s KXAN in Austin, TX, Alex Capariello is moving up the corporate food chain to become a left coast correspondent for NewsNation. He tweeted, in part, ...
By his own admission, Nexstar CEO Perry Sook’s pet project – NewsNation – is totally unfamiliar to 84 % of the country despite high-profile hires (e.g. Ashleigh Banfield) and a promotional push that stretches ...
As NewsNation numbers hover dangerously close to asterisks, Nexstar has enlisted the pricey services of the Leo Burnett ad agency to try and reverse the cable outlets moribund numbers. So “News For All America” ...
The last we checked, NewsNation, Nexstar’s attempt to break into the national news market was registering a bleak 28,000 viewers of all ages everywhere — and a scant 5,000 viewers in the salable 25-to-54 ...
We heard this week that the ratings for Nexstar’s “NewsNation Now” took still another dive this month, to their lowest level all year. The sad results: The “unbiased news” *wink wink* experiment delivered 28,000 ...
The newsroom is getting busier at Chicago’s WGN (not to be confused with the late-great WGN America which is now Nexstar sister operation NewsNation). Chicago media watcher Robert Feder tells us that even though ...
For an outfit that promised to leave political bloviation in the dust, Nexstar’s NewsNation seems to be getting itself even deeper into political chat. It’s latest move is to pick up “Hancock and Kelley,” ...
TVNewsCheck reports Nexstar launched a daily coronavirus stream this week that goes to all of it’s station websites and is also available on social media as a public service. Austin Kellerman, Nexstar’s director of ...
It’s getting to be “go big or go home” in 2020, as group owners seek to scoop up as much political ad money as they can while pretending it’s all about public service. And ...
