Nexstar to acquire Tegna

[tyrannical bastard 4676]

One of these days, Nexstar is going to lose the game they invented.  At this rate, its a matter of WHEN a network pulls their affiliation when they balk at the rates and a pay TV provider permanently drops them when they demand too much money. 

 

They'll be as toxically radioactive as the former Fox Sports RSNs (which will finally die this year under MainStreet).

Edited April 22 by tyrannical bastard

[MD TV 389]

The Ohio AG says an agreement with Nexstar was made so WKYC and WBNS would maintain independent newsrooms:

 

https://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/Media/News-Releases/April-2026/Yost-Reaches-Agreement-with-Nexstar-to-Preserve-Lo#:~:text=(COLUMBUS%2C Ohio) — Ohio,our democracy%2C” Yost said.

 

 

Edited April 30 by MD TV

[TheRolyPoly 3510]

Five more states are now joining in on the bipartisan lawsuit.

 

You read that right. Indiana and Vermont are two of the five joining in and they have Republican governors.

 

https://www.linkedin.com/safety/go/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthedesk.net%2F2026%2F04%2Ffive-states-added-to-antitrust-lawsuit-against-nexstar-over-tegna-deal%2F&urlhash=nYYk&mt=1bo3E9OQnzdhNC0dKhy12ougIWpPSsFiiBQcZxG59cFmeHlUgKXRrRe0oiFAChEW28ArcVEnZhLZXKmHURoPMZwJm75rPvMitgSOTMCpxsDEXqJSsx1kw18hDg&isSdui=true

[mre29 1967]

2 hours ago, TheRolyPoly said:

Five more states are now joining in on the bipartisan lawsuit.

 

You read that right. Indiana and Vermont are two of the five joining in and they have Republican governors.

 

First off, that link is bad. Here's a shorter, easier-to-read, and direct version that's free of the unnecessary LinkedIn detour and its URL cruft:

https://thedesk.net/2026/04/five-states-added-to-antitrust-lawsuit-against-nexstar-over-tegna-deal/

 

Quote

The eight original parties to the lawsuit all have sitting governors that are associated with the Democratic Party, but two of the five additional states — Indiana and Vermont — have Republican governors, evolving the lawsuit into a bipartisan effort.

 

The governors being Republicans or Democrats have nothing to do with it. It's the Attorneys General who are involved in the lawsuit. As it happens, three of them are Republicans -- in Indiana, Kansas, and Pennsylvania.

 

[GoldenShine_10 263]

5 hours ago, MD TV said:

The Ohio AG says an agreement with Nexstar was made so WKYC and WBNS would maintain independent newsrooms:

 

https://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/Media/News-Releases/April-2026/Yost-Reaches-Agreement-with-Nexstar-to-Preserve-Lo#:~:text=(COLUMBUS%2C Ohio) — Ohio,our democracy%2C” Yost said.

 

 

 

Don't buy it at all.

[MidwestTV 1358]

8 minutes ago, mre29 said:

 

First off, that link is bad. Here's a shorter, easier-to-read, and direct version that's free of the unnecessary LinkedIn detour and its URL cruft:

 

 

More specifically, everything after the ? in the link is useless tracking junk

[ABC 7 Denver 1889]

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/media/republican-state-attorneys-general-join-suit-stop-nexstar-tegna-merger-rcna343016

 

 

7 hours ago, MD TV said:

The Ohio AG says an agreement with Nexstar was made so WKYC and WBNS would maintain independent newsrooms:

 

https://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/Media/News-Releases/April-2026/Yost-Reaches-Agreement-with-Nexstar-to-Preserve-Lo#:~:text=(COLUMBUS%2C Ohio) — Ohio,our democracy%2C” Yost said.

 

 

 

2 hours ago, GoldenShine_10 said:

 

Don't buy it at all.

Even though this doesn't do a damn thing except delay the inevitable. It's not a solution. Fuck the Ohio AG for being so transparent.

Edited May 1 by ABC 7 Denver

[mre29 1967]

On 5/1/2026 at 12:01 AM, MidwestTV said:

More specifically, everything after the ? in the link is useless tracking junk

 

Actually, I just noticed that in this case, doing that would also drop the URL of the page you actually want to go to and just leave you stuck on an error page.

 

Here's the URL again with the actual important part in bold:

 

https://www.linkedin.com/safety/go/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthedesk.net%2F2026%2F04%2Ffive-states-added-to-antitrust-lawsuit-against-nexstar-over-tegna-deal%2F&urlhash=nYYk&mt=1bo3E9OQnzdhNC0dKhy12ougIWpPSsFiiBQcZxG59cFmeHlUgKXRrRe0oiFAChEW28ArcVEnZhLZXKmHURoPMZwJm75rPvMitgSOTMCpxsDEXqJSsx1kw18hDg&isSdui=true

 

Pasting that bolded chunk into your web browser's address bar will likely just cause the browser to treat it as a search term and pass it to whichever search engine (Google, DuckDuckGo, etc.) it's set to use, but the top most result will be the actual page you want to go to. You can skip the search engine by changing any instance of %2F to a / .

 

Edited May 4 by mre29