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 ...
It was back in February of 2016 that now-disgraced former CBS CEO Les Moonves said of Donald Trump‘s then-candidacy “It may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS.” Without passing ...
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 ...
OK, This is about a Chicago radio station, but it is also about how Nexstar, as a corporation, treats enterprise journalism. WGN is the only radio station owned by industry behemoth Nexstar and it ...
Maybe it’s who fans were hoping to see. Out in Seattle, they had a high ol’ time at Saturday night at Nexstar’s KCPQ, when the newscast aired an entire segment about the Vikings’ “win” ...
Nexstar’s newly-acquired Chicago station is preparing for a bonanza in political ad dollars this year. Starting this week, WGN in Chicago will be airing 72 ½ hours of news every week with the Saturday ...
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 ...
Nexstar Media Group has named Brien Kennedy as VP and general manager of WIVB/WLNO and its related digital operations in Buffalo, N.Y. And guess what kids? He’s excited! And he’ll be where he belongs. ...
Nexstar proudly announced it is adding a 7 pm hour-long newscast to its newly-acquired KTXL in Sacramento, CA. They hasten to note that it is the ONLY 7 pm newscast in the market. It ...
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) ...
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 ...
Skip Valet didn’t make it two years as VP/GM at Nexstar’s Tampa, FL duopoly WFLA/WTTA. And Nexstar Senior Vice President and Regional Manager Andy Alford barely made it through the midday as interim GM ...
When Nexstar took over the WGN complex in Chicago, it wasted no time clearing out the front office of WGN Radio. Now, a familiar voice to Chicago listeners and viewers has gone missing. Legendary ...
Well WGN-TV is humming along rather nicely, thank you very much, so there wasn’t a lot that Nexstar could do to assert its minty-fresh ownership of the station. So, they turned to WGN Radio. ...
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 ...
Here is your ever-so brief glimpse into the going-on-5-weeks impasse between Nexstar and AT&T. While 120 Nexstar stations remain dark and DirecTV customers scratch their heads and wonder when they will return, we are ...
Last April, on the eve of the May sweeps we reported the unexpected departure of Susan Tully after four years at NBC-owned WVIT in Hartford, CT and total of 28 years with the NBC ...
Jerry Brehm has been named Vice President and General Manager of Nexstar’s WTEN and will also oversee Nexstar’s relationship with Shield Media-owned WXXA in Albany, NY. He’s been director of sales for the station ...
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 ...
Dave Ciliberti is leaving WCMH in Columbus, OH, to take over sister Nexstar NBC station WFLA in Tampa. WCMH General Manager Ken Freedman told his staff via this email. It’s a return to Tampa for Ciliberti, ...
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 ...
Kyle Brinkman moves within Nexstar to become news director for WSPA in Greenville/Spartanburg, SC. He’s spent the last 2+ years as ND for the company’s WCBD in Charleston, SC, and earlier was ND for just ...
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 ...
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 ...
