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UPDATED, with comment from Sinclair’s Scott Livingston: Sinclair Broadcast Group plans to launch a headline news service in early 2021, with plans to hire 25 new employees. At the start, the service will air weekday mornings from 6 AM to 9 AM on more than 50 of Sinclair’s owned or operated CW and MyNetwork TV…

News Nation, the three-hour prime-time block of live news debuting September 1 on WGN America, has set its on-air talent lineup. Anchoring weeknight broadcasts from 8PM to 11PM will be Joe Donlon and Marni Hughes, accompanied by breaking news anchor Rob Nelson and chief meteorologist Albert Ramon. All bring…

After years of anticipation, “next-generation” broadcast technology made its full-time debut Tuesday on Las Vegas stations owned by Nexstar Media Group, Sinclair Broadcast Group and E.W. Scripps. Sinclair's NBC affiliate, KSNV, and CW affiliate, KVCW; Nexstar's CBS affiliate, KLAS; and Scripps' ABC station KTNV are…

Despite ample headwinds from COVID-19, Nexstar Media Group is not curtailing its ambitions to mount a new prime-time challenger to cable news as the U.S. nears its consequential election season. The company said Wednesday that News Nation, its three-hour nightly news show, is going forward without any changes. It will…

Nexstar Media Group, the No. 1 owner of local TV stations in the U.S., topped Wall Street’s first-quarter forecasts as advertising momentum before the coronavirus carried the company to a 177% surge in net income. Total revenue in the quarter ending March 31 was $1.09 billion, edging consensus estimates for $1.07…

Stocks of the biggest U.S. local TV station owners, among them Nexstar, Sinclair, Tegna and Gray, continue to slump badly as investors recoil from their exposure to a worsening ad market. Even so, one significant player in the station game, Fox Corp., is being touted in some corners as the best-situated U.S. media…

Sony Pictures Television’s The Mel Robbins Show, an inspiration-focused talk show, will end its run after the end of its first season. The plan is for production and episode delivery to continue through September, the company said. "Mel has had a positive impact on millions of daytime viewers and we still strongly…

Station giants Sinclair Broadcast Group and Nexstar Media said Monday they've agreed to settle an outstanding lawsuit in a deal that has Sinclair paying out $60 million and transferring ownership of a station in Kentucky. The suit was initially a tiff between Sinclair and Tribune Media, one-time merger partners. The…

Nexstar Media Group, which gained control of LA TV station KTLA after buying Tribune Media last year, has appointed Janene Drafs as the station’s VP and GM. Drafs succeeds Don Corsini, who had a long and high-profile career as a broadcast news leader in the LA market, including a decade running KTLA. Corsini announced…

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. News Nation will broadcast from a newsroom and studio at WGN-TV in Chicago, and will launch this summer. Jennifer Lyons, who most…

Nexstar said that anchor-reporter Courtney Friel will return to air on its KTLA-TV station in Los Angeles on January 18, after a tour for her new memoir that includes a claim that Donald Trump propositioned her a decade ago, when she was working for Fox News. There had been some questions about her presence on the…

Fox Corp. has bought three TV stations from Nexstar, the top U.S. owner of local stations, in a $350 million transactions that will give the company a position in 14 of the top DMAs. Under the deal, Fox has also agreed to sell Nexstar two stations in Charlotte, NC: Fox affiliate WJZY and MyNetworkTV affiliate WMYT…