Nexstar to acquire Tegna

[tyrannical bastard 4676]

20 minutes ago, TVLurker said:

I can't believe Nexstar surpassed Sinclair for worst ever company.

I can only imagine how pissed the people at Sinclair must be since their antics were kept in check by regulators and government officials, while Nexstar is getting a free pass from everyone.

[MD TV 389]

16 minutes ago, tyrannical bastard said:

I can only imagine how pissed the people at Sinclair must be since their antics were kept in check by regulators and government officials, while Nexstar is getting a free pass from everyone.

Like the level of backlash when Nexstar bought Tribune was nothing compared to Sinclair's attempt.

[Georgie56 3661]

The Sinclair backlash was more politically-driven. After John Oliver’s 2017 feature on Sinclair and their right-wing must-runs during newscasts, backlash grew against the deal from the public. What killed the Sinclair acquisition was their slick way of putting some stations in sidecars.

 

Nexstar wasn’t known for forcing ideological must-runs on their stations then and were still a relatively obscure company to the public.

Edited March 27 by Georgie56

[tyrannical bastard 4676]

19 minutes ago, MD TV said:

Like the level of backlash when Nexstar bought Tribune was nothing compared to Sinclair's attempt.

Not to mention the FCC and DOJ still made them divest stations to alleviate any market share or consolidation concerns.  Tegna was a major beneficiary of this, grabbing affected stations in many places where both Tribune and Nexstar had a strong presence.

 

[Greggo 384]

Things are starting to get lean (read: interesting) in Austin already. The KVUE (ex Tegna) weather team will be down to just 2 people (weekday morning and weekday evening) at the end of next week. One met (weekend evening) left last month for WUSA, now another (weekend morning) is leaving and doesn’t appear to have anything lined up just yet. Neither job is posted. (They do still have — for now at least — a morning reporter who is working on her met degree.) Are they going to lean on their new sister station KXAN, which is already down a met after a recent retirement (they still have 4 though, plus occasional fill-in Jim Spencer) or maybe the Nexstar weather center out of Dallas? Curious if this is the start of an on-air KVUE/KXAN consolidation. 

 

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0T8A5PKFejGsSfLWtdQ4re4DyoEF6pModbG1uJvGqp5HqwVhd1UrnzDbyBbGHtSNZl&id=100063664986586

[cg4 18]

According to Nexstar's TV station list, Rockford is in the Chicago market, Beaumont in Houston, Colorado Springs in Denver, Youngstown in Cleveland, Huntsville in Birmingham, and Erie, PA in Buffalo, NY.

 

Not only that, on their contact page, in their social media links: "X, formally Twitter"

 

I weep for this industry's future.

Edited March 28 by cg4

[tyrannical bastard 4676]

28 minutes ago, cg4 said:

According to Nexstar's TV station list, Rockford is in the Chicago market, Beaumont in Houston, Colorado Springs in Denver, Youngstown in Cleveland, Huntsville in Birmingham, and Erie, PA in Buffalo, NY.

 

Not only that, on their contact page, in their social media links: "X, formally Twitter"

 

I weep for this industry's future.

Here's hoping this is just some blithering incompetence on their end, instead of a sign of things to come...

[l_miro 245]

 

7 hours ago, MD TV said:

Like the level of backlash when Nexstar bought Tribune was nothing compared to Sinclair's attempt.

 

Sinclair got blasted. CWA's complaint alone was over 300 pages on how harmful the merger would be.

 

Sinclair's Tribune Docket '17-179' has over 50,000 filings, of them 19,013 comments; 384 pages history report (https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/search-filings/results?q=(proceedings.name:("17-179"))

 

Nexstar-Tegna docket '25-331' has a little over 200 filings of them 61 comments (https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/search-filings/results?q=(proceedings.name:("25-331"))&limit=5) and 5 pages of history report

 

Edited March 28 by l_miro

[evv_mlis 34]

1 hour ago, cg4 said:

According to Nexstar's TV station list, Rockford is in the Chicago market, Beaumont in Houston, Colorado Springs in Denver, Youngstown in Cleveland, Huntsville in Birmingham, and Erie, PA in Buffalo, NY.

 

Not only that, on their contact page, in their social media links: "X, formally Twitter"

 

I weep for this industry's future.

 

Nexstar has so many errors on chyrons and graphics on our two Nexstar stations. The errors in fonts not matching or missing spaces or punctuation are just embarrassing. 

 

Them messing up cities on the map is Allen level failure. When AMB outsourced the weather, they had two of our cities in the wrong state.

[GoldenShine_10 263]

https://thedesk.net/2026/03/judge-grants-restraining-order-nexstar-tegna-deal/

 

Restraining order granted by judge.

 

Full order: https://thedesk.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2026-03-Nexstar-TEGNA-restraining-order-granted.pdf

Edited March 28 by GoldenShine_10

[ColtFromGulfcoast 869]

"Nexstar must permit Tegna to continue operating as a separate and distinct, independently managed business unit from Nexstar, and Nexstar must put measures in place to maintain Tegna as an ongoing, economically viable, and active competitor. Tegna shall have separate management that operates Tegna in the ordinary course consistent with pre-closing practices."

 

It better NOT be anyone from Mission!!!

[GoldenShine_10 263]

15 minutes ago, ColtFromGulfcoast said:

"Nexstar must permit Tegna to continue operating as a separate and distinct, independently managed business unit from Nexstar, and Nexstar must put measures in place to maintain Tegna as an ongoing, economically viable, and active competitor. Tegna shall have separate management that operates Tegna in the ordinary course consistent with pre-closing practices."

 

It better NOT be anyone from Mission!!!

 

The courts will likely intervene if that happened.

[l_miro 245]

1 hour ago, ColtFromGulfcoast said:

"Nexstar must permit Tegna to continue operating as a separate and distinct, independently managed business unit from Nexstar, and Nexstar must put measures in place to maintain Tegna as an ongoing, economically viable, and active competitor. Tegna shall have separate management that operates Tegna in the ordinary course consistent with pre-closing practices."

 

It better NOT be anyone from Mission!!!

 

Won't be, the court order is status quo ante item, as Tegna was immediately preceding the pending controversy (page 21 line 19)

 

TRO expires in 14 days, bench hearing set for April 7 at 2pm to argue preliminary injunction. 

 

Judge went with Directv vs Nexstar though, State Plaintiffs may have failed, or judge thought Drectv was the stronger more immediate risk

[carolinanews4 455]

3 hours ago, l_miro said:

Judge went with Directv vs Nexstar though, State Plaintiffs may have failed, or judge thought Drectv was the stronger more immediate risk

Coping directly from the article linked above:

 

“A separate restraining order request was made in the state case, and was granted on Friday, with the same conditions imposed on Nexstar and TEGNA.”

[NowBergen 924]

6 hours ago, GoldenShine_10 said:

 

The courts will likely intervene if that happened.

There probably would need to be court submissions to show that Mission is in reality Nexstar.  The previous FCC already determined that for the WPIX case.  This is more severe in all the potential duopolies or more, the switching of signals and closing of news rooms and reduction in staff.

[cg4 18]

12 hours ago, evv_mlis said:

 

Nexstar has so many errors on chyrons and graphics on our two Nexstar stations. The errors in fonts not matching or missing spaces or punctuation are just embarrassing. 

 

Them messing up cities on the map is Allen level failure. When AMB outsourced the weather, they had two of our cities in the wrong state.

This isn’t even a map thing, they just have a bunch of stations in smaller markets listed as being in larger markets.

[TVNewsLover 861]

https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2026/3/24/nexstar-eyes-kdka
 

Sounds like Nexstar isn’t done yet. Apparently they want KDKA in Pittsburgh too. Although unlikely, maybe CBS can arrange a swap of KDKA and WPKD for either WUSA or KHOU. 

[tyrannical bastard 4676]

Hopefully any states that intervene will prevail, and any former Tegna operations that are in the same markets as Nexstar (that would have qualified as divestitures in prior times) will be forced to sell to an unrelated third party.

[MidwestTV 1358]

Worth noting this is just the direcTV suit. The lawsuit from the 8 states and Newsmax hasn't had any decision made yet.

[NowBergen 924]

4 hours ago, MidwestTV said:

Worth noting this is just the direcTV suit. The lawsuit from the 8 states and Newsmax hasn't had any decision made yet.

scroll up, it was mentioned the same ruling.

[GraphicsMan 345]

On 3/28/2026 at 11:15 AM, TVNewsLover said:

https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2026/3/24/nexstar-eyes-kdka
 

Sounds like Nexstar isn’t done yet. Apparently they want KDKA in Pittsburgh too. Although unlikely, maybe CBS can arrange a swap of KDKA and WPKD for either WUSA or KHOU. 

No. KDKA is CBS Strongest station and a AFC market. 

[Georgie56 3661]

WFAA reverted to their pre-Nexstar copyright this morning. Good Morning Texas also reverted to the pre-Nexstar legalese and TEGNA-era copyright.

 

 

Edited March 30 by Georgie56

[GoldenShine_10 263]

2 hours ago, Georgie56 said:

WFAA reverted to their pre-Nexstar copyright this morning. Good Morning Texas also reverted to the pre-Nexstar legalese and TEGNA-era copyright.

 

 

 

Probably they aren't sure what their future holds, although I suspect WFAA would stay with Nexstar and KDAF would be sold off.

[mre29 1967]

Tegna lives!  

 

[ScottSchell 423]

34 minutes ago, GoldenShine_10 said:

 

Probably they aren't sure what their future holds, although I suspect WFAA would stay with Nexstar and KDAF would be sold off.

I doubt Nexstar would sell their CW station.