(TVNewsCheck) Nexstar Media Group said today that its wholly-owned cable network, WGN America, will launch a live daily three-hour national newscast. Beginning this summer, News Nation, will air in primetime, from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. ET, and will draw on the local market, regional and national expertise of Nexstar’s 5,400 local journalists in 110 […]
(The Hollywood Reporter) Local TV station giant Nexstar is planning to launch a new primetime cable news block on its WGN America channel. Click here to read more.
(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.
(Broadcasting & Cable) Nexstar will launch nightly three-hour News Nation out of WGN America. The primetime newscast, launching this summer, will focus on fact and not opinion. It will air out of Chicago. 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.
Nexstar Media Group’s cable network, WGN America will launch a live daily national newscast. Beginning this summer, “News Nation,” will air in prime-time and will draw on the expertise of Nexstar’s 5,400 local journalists in 110 local newsrooms across the country.
(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.