On Tuesday evening comes a new entrant in the cable news wars: WGN America’s News Nation, a three-hour primetime newscast that promises a just-the-facts approach to viewers’ daily diet. Click here to continue reading on Deadline.
Joe Donlon joins Bob Sirott to chat about his debut with Marni Hughes as the Monday through Friday anchor team on NewsNation, the national nightly newscast coming to WGN America today. To find your local channel, visit wgnamerica.com. Click here to continue to listen on WGN Radio.
Billed as “representing the return of traditional, trusted, fact-based news reporting to cable television,” NewsNation, a three-hour primetime national newscast, debuts tonight at 8 p.m. ET on WGN America, Nexstar Media Group’s wholly-owned cable network that reaches approximately 75 million U.S. TV households. NewsNation will air seven days a week. Click here to continue reading […]
Nexstar’s newest venture, NewsNation, launches tonight on WGN America, bringing a three hour, prime-time news show to the air to compete with mainstream media. Click here to continue reading on the Daily Mail’s website.
“Marni Hughes joins John Williams to preview tonight’s premiere of the unbiased nightly NewsNation on WGN America.” Click here to listen on WGNRadio.com.
“Albert Ramon, chief meteorologist for NewsNation, joins Anna to talk about his excitement for the debut of NewsNation on WGN America tonight at 7 pm CT.” Click here to listen on WGNRadio.com.
When Nexstar Media Group embarked on the ambitious plan to launch a three-hour primetime national newscast in less than a year, there was no way to predict the world would change shortly after work began. Click here to continue reading the article and click here to view the gallery.
Nexstar Media Group plans to launch a nationwide primetime news show called News Nation over its WGN America cable network tomorrow, a risky move under the best of circumstances let alone during the worst economic slowdown since the Great Depression. Click here to continue reading on Forbes.
“When entrepreneur Ted Turner first launched CNN in the early 1980s without any big name anchors, one of his credos was that the news would be the star of his then-revolutionary new network.” Click here to continue reading on the Los Angeles Times website.
“New Orleans first got to know Rob Nelson when he was a reporter for The Times-Picayune, before he moved on to television — first at WWL-TV and then in New York, where he was a reporter and anchor for ABC News and WABC-TV…” Click here to continue reading on The Times-Picayune’s website.