Category: It’s Nexstar

NEWSNATION ADDS STAFF

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 ...

NEXSTAR TAKES OVER THE CW

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 ...

GOING CORPORATE

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 ...

NEXSTAR’S NEW #1 IN BIG D

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 ...

MARK YOUR CALENDARS

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 ...

NEWSNATION KEEPS TRYING

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 ...

72 HOURS IS NOT ENOUGH

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 ...

NEXSTAR STARTS DAILY STREAM

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 ...

ANOTHER NEXSTAR GM GETS BUMPED

Nexstar continues its march through former Tribune Media stations to fill executive suites with folks who get the “Nexstar Way.” The latest casualty is Leigh White  who left Nexstar’s KTXL in Sacramento after almost 4 ...

NEXSTAR HONORS REMARKABLE WOMEN

Nexstar will celebrate next year’s International Women’s Month by honoring “Remarkable Women” across the country and recognizing one of them as the “Nexstar Woman of the Year” in March 2020. March is International Women’s ...

OLD FACE, NEW PLACE

One of the significant advantages of big media companies getting even bigger is that you can game parts of the system by tucking away talent you want in Market A into nearby (and co-owned) ...

NEW BOSS IN FRESNO

J.R. Jackson Vice President and General Manager of KSEE(NBC), KGPE (CBS) serving  Fresno, CA . Jackson replaces Matthew Rosenfeld who was recently promoted to Senior Vice President and Regional Manager of Nexstar Broadcasting. He ...

LIFE UNDER NEXSTAR

Now that Nexstar has swallowed up Tribune Media and unloaded its conflict stations on Scripps and Tegna, it’s preparing those former Tribune employees for life aboard the Sookwagon. What can they expect? Since next ...

BORDER BATTLE

Speaking of Nexstar, We don’t need to remind you that the Border is one of the hottest topics in TV News these days. We’ve learned exclusively that in an unprecedented attempt to grab more ...

THE IMPASSE CONTINUES

We had more than a few family members around the country beefing on social media last night because they couldn’t watch the All-Star Game because it was blacked out. Their first target was Fox ...

MARCH MADNESS

Nexstar is might proud of it’s March Madness coverage. Austin Kellerman, Nexstar’s digital content director writes: “One of the advantages of having a national footprint of stations across the country for TV groups like ...

AND FURTHERMORE…

Let’s take a trip to WJMN in Marquette, MI to learn of another apparent departure as this job is posted as well. The files show that Cynthia Thompson has been ND here for more than ...