Nexstar in the News

(Robert Feder) Nexstar Media Group will launch a three-hour nightly national newscast from Chicago this summer on its WGN America cable network. Click here to read more.

(Deadline) Nexstar Media Group is launching a three-hour nightly newscast on its flagship cable channel WGN America, drawing on local journalists for reports from its stations across the country. Click here to read more.

(Chicago Tribune) Nexstar Media Group, which bought Tribune Media in September, is launching a nightly three-hour national newscast on cable channel WGN America beginning this summer. Click here to read more.

(Los Angeles Times) Television station group Nexstar is launching a new national three-hour prime-time network newscast that will replace the entertainment programming on its cable channel WGN America. Click here to read more.

(Variety) Nexstar Media Group, the nation’s largest owner of TV stations, plans to overhaul the primetime lineup of the WGN America cable channel with the launch of a three-hour nightly national newscast. Click here to read more.

(Wall Street Journal) Cable channel WGN America is shifting its prime-time programming to news from entertainment, pitching itself as a just-the-facts alternative to the big cable-news networks. Click here to read more.

(Broadcasting & Cable) Nexstar Media’s Nexstar Digital said it made a multi-year deal with Mediaocean that will put Nexstar’s OTT, digital video, display, streaming audio and linear broadcast advertising inventory on Mediaocean’s Spectra platform, which is used by media buyers. Click here to read more.

(Bloomberg) The ranks of well-funded political hopefuls vying for the nation’s top office is poised to benefit the local broadcast industry in a year set to reach record levels. But one of the nation’s regional television station operators stands to reap the most. Click here for more info.