Viewers will be treated to the midnight ball-drop in New York City, and spectacular firework shows from Dallas’ Reunion Tower and from Denver’s downtown area, as well as a 10-minute fireworks show launched from the rooftops of eight Las Vegas Strip hotels.
Big-league sports have given Sin City a major-metropolis distinction. The Golden Knights joined the NHL in 2017, and the Oakland Raiders shifted to Vegas in 2020. TV is a hard-hitting game as well. Gray closed on its acquisition of market leader KVVU, a Fox affiliate, late last year. Sinclair owns KSNV-KVCW-KVMY, an NBC-The CW-MyNetworkTV trio. Nexstar has CBS affiliate KLAS and Scripps owns ABC outlet KTNV. Telemundo has KBLR and Entravision owns Univision affil KINC. Estrella TV airs on Sinclair’s KSNV dot-two subchannel.
New Jobs Posted To TVNewsCheck
New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings in news, sales, digital, creative services, engineering and technical operations/production.
New Jobs Posted To TVNewsCheck
New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a VP-general manager, two marketing producers, and a local sales manager for Nexstar and Tegna stations in Las Vegas, Charlotte, Phoenix and Rock Island, Ill.
Exclusives
Powered by ATSC 3.0, Sinclair’s KSNV (NBC) and KVCW (CW), Nexstar’s KLAS (CBS) and Scripps’ KTNV (ABC) are now broadcasting with the new NextGen TV technology.
KLAS New Year’s Eve Special Airs In 11 Cities
Tributes Pour In Honoring Lee Minard
Brian Loftus Named KLAS Evening Anchor
Nexstar Broadcasting Group has promoted Brian Loftus to evening anchor of its CBS affiliate KLAS Las Vegas (DMA 40). Beginning Jan. 2, 2018, he will anchor the 5 and 11 […]
Bob Denning Named KLAS General Sales Mgr.
Nexstar gets its new Las Vegas GSM from KOIN Portland, Ore., where he’s been national sales manager since 2015.
Nexstar’s CBS affiliate KLAS Las Vegas (DMA 40) has hired lifestyle and entertainment reporter and producer Courtney Perna to co-host its Las Vegas Now. Perna joins Kendall Tenney, Mercedes Martinez […]
Brent Barrow To Lead KLAS Creative Services
The experienced broadcast and marketing executive will oversee the commercial and promotional production initiatives for Nexstar’s Las Vegas CBS affiliate.
On Feb. 6, Nexstar’s CBS affiliate will debut, Las Vegas Now, an hourlong 4 p.m. show covering entertainment, pop-culture, fashion, food and fitness along with local event and special feature coverage including local news and weather updates.
KLAS Special To Air In 12 Nexstar Markets
Nexstar’s Las Vegas CBS affiliate’s New Year’s Eve special, Countdown to 2017, will originate at the Hard Rock Café, and will feature live reports from other locations throughout Las Vegas. The three-and-a-half hour program will also air on 11 other Nexstar stations in the western half of the U.S.
KLAS, KINC Partner On Senate Debate
The Nexstar and Univision stations will present a debate between Joe Heck (R) and Catherine Cortez Masto who are in a race to fill the seat of retiring Sen. Harry Reid.
KLAS Reups Dave Courvoisier For 3 More Years
KLAS Launches $1.3M In News Enhancements
Nexstar Broadcasting upgrades all aspects of its Las Vegas CBS affiliate. It’s rebranded as “8 News Now — The Valley’s News Leader.”
Denise Valdez Replacing Retiring Paula Francis At KLAS
KLAS Anchor Paula Francis Retiring After 30 Years
Rentrak Adds Nexstar’s Phoenix, Vegas Stations
Rentrak today announced it has added Nexstar Broadcasting Group’s CW affiliate KASW Phoenix (DMA 12) and CBS affil KLAS Las Vegas (DMA 40) to its roster of ratings clients. Phoenix […]
KLAS Ups Terri Foley To News Director
She has been the Las Vegas CBS affiliate’s managing editor/assistant news director for the past eight years.
Nexstar Names Lisa Howfield VP-GM Of KLAS
The local broadcasting executive with more than 20 years of experience will succeed the retiring Emily Neilson as leader of Nexstar’s CBS affiliate and LasVegasNow.com.
In Vegas, KLAS Trounces Social Competition
This week’s Social Scorecard looks at Las Vegas (DMA 41), where Nexstar-owned KLAS dominates with the most social actions and followers across Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. “We have a very concentrated strategy on social media,” says GM Emily Neilson.
A new long-term agreement extends affiliation for five stations owned or operated by Nexstar: KGPE Fresno, Calif.; KREX Grand Junction, Colo; KLAS Las Vegas; WTAJ Altoona, Pa.; and WYOU Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, Pa.
This is the second round of cuts at the CBS affiliate. The first round came shortly after Nexstar took over the station in February.
KLAS GM Emily Neilson Stepping Down
The head of Nexstar’s CBS affiliate in Las Vegas says she told the staff this week she’s leaving the station in a few months and added, “I have agreed to stay until a replacement is in place.”
The purchase of the CBS affiliate from Landmark Media Enterprises will boost Nexstar’s holdings to 110 stations with coverage of 18% of U.S. TV households.
Did KLAS Anchor Sales Promo Go Too Far?
KLAS, the CBS affiliate in Las Vegas, produced a sales presentation video, May Client Presentation, to tell advertisers about its performance in May and throughout the year and posted it to YouTube. The hosts in the video are KLAS anchors Paul Joncich and Denise Valdez, although neither ever identifies themselves, and they urge the potential clients to “get your orders in right now.”
KLAS Reporter Colleen McCarty Leaves For Law
Hate Mail Leaves KLAS Anchor In Tears
Shauna Khorrami Out As KLAS Las Vegas Anchor
Morning Anchor Dayna Roselli Leaves KLAS
KLAS Dug Deep To Uncover Housing Scams
The Landmark-owned CBS affiliate in Las Vegas was awarded a Peabody for its extensive investigative reporting on the causes, effects and those responsible for the city’s mushrooming housing crisis. Bringing a number of the issues to light helped prompt the state to act faster to pass laws to ease the suffering of homeowners.
