The Pulitzer Prize-winner will appear across all broadcast and digital platforms on the Nexstar cable news network.
Stephen Arnold Music delivered sonic branding and custom music for two new shows debuting on NewsNation, Nexstar Media Group Inc.’s cable news network. The project includes branded themes for Dan Abrams […]
Following the departure of news anchor Rob Nelson, Ramon is the second of the network’s four original on-air hires to resign in recent weeks.
Nick Smith is an Emmy Award-winning host and journalist, born in Chicago and a graduate of Thornridge High School in Dolton, Ill. He has worked as an anchor/host in Washington, […]
TVNewsCheck’s Michael Depp talks with Dan Abrams, host of an eponymous new live show on Nexstar’s NewsNation, about drawing lines between his brand of bias and primetime cable’s penchant for left/right absolutism.
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New ‘NewsNation’ Ad Campaign Pledges ‘News For All America’
NewsNation, Nexstar Media’s nascent cable network, is set to launch a new promotional campaign across the country in September. “What you hear and see in this campaign is very much a decidedly different tone of voice,” says Jonathan Killian, NewsNation’s VP of creative marketing and brand communication.
Beginning Sept. 27, the Nexstar cable network will feature 55 hours of live news, analysis and talk each week. Abrams will host Dan Abrams Live and Adrienne Bankert will anchor its new live national weekday newscast Morning in America.
On July 19, NewsNation: Rush Hour will be anchored by Nichole Berlie at 6 p.m. ET, with On Balance with Leland Vittert debuting at 8.
NewsNation, Nexstar Media’s cable network reaching 75 million U.S. television households, today announced that veteran news executive Cherie Grzech will join the network as vice president of news, managing editor, […]
Executive Session | Nexstar: ‘There Is No Plan B’ On NewsNation
Nexstar CEO Perry Sook weighs in on NewsNation’s struggles; the prospect of increasing reverse comp fees for less programming exclusivity; NextGen TV’s monetization horizon; the industry’s need for a single, impressions-based currency and much more in this exclusive TVNewsCheck interview. Note: This story is available to TVNewsCheck Premium members only. If you would like to upgrade your free TVNewsCheck membership to Premium now, you can visit your Member Home Page, available when you log in at the very top right corner of the site or in the Stay Connected Box that appears in the right column of virtually every page on the site. If you don’t see Member Home, you will need to click Log In or Subscribe.
Nexstar taps the award-winning former ABC News senior executive producer of Good Morning America and ABC World News for a new executive position at its nascent cable news network.
Michael Corn will join the struggling cable news network ahead of the launch of a new morning program.
Fox News anchor Leland Vittert, who parted ways with the network last week after months off the air, has landed at Nexstar’s cable network NewsNation.
Nexstar Media’s cable channel NewsNation, launched last year, is searching for a lane in the highly polarized news landscape but has struggled to gain traction.
NewsNation, Nexstar Media Group’s cable network has expanded its nationwide network with a new Atlanta bureau. Former Houston-based reporter Janel Forte will be joining the bureau as its first correspondent. […]
NewsNation, Nexstar Media Group, Inc.’s wholly-owned cable network, has hired Emmy-winning veteran journalist Adrienne Bankert as an anchor-correspondent effective immediately. She will initially cover national affairs and deliver special reports across the network’s […]
Nexstar’s cable news channel NewsNation — formerly WGN America — has named Allison Harris to be a correspondent in its Washington, D.C., bureau, focusing on news coming out of the White House. Harris joins the network from KDFW Dallas-Fort Worth, where she had been a reporter.
The Price Point | NewsNation Finds Itself At Early Crossroads
Nexstar’s nascent NewsNation cable network has been roiled with high-level departures and “plummeting morale amid dismal ratings,” as summarized by one media writer. It is certainly at a pivotal juncture, and whether it can deliver on the unique, apolitical content it promised will be key to its survival.
Jennifer Lyons, the VP of news at Nexstar’s rebranded cable news channel NewsNation resigned Tuesday amid concerns it will take a right-wing turn because of low ratings.
Two top editors at the channel’s new prime-time newscast resigned amid staff complaints of a right-wing tilt and concern over the involvement of the former Fox News chief Bill Shine. Above,
Stephen Arnold Music is supporting the rebrand of Nexstar Media Group’s cable network WGN America as NewsNation with sonic branding and custom music inspired by the network’s commitment to delivering […]
NewsNation relaunched on Monday, not that you would know that from these TV ratings. According to Nielsen, NewsNation’s first primetime back on the cable airwaves drew just 37,000 total viewers, on-average, from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. In the key news demo, adults 25-54, the average across those three hours was only 8,000. It gets worse: Ashleigh Banfield’s new program settled for a mere 17,000 total viewers at 10 p.m., according to Nielsen. Just 5,000 viewers aged 25-54 tuned in to that hour.
Aaron Sorkin, Bryan Cranston and Robin Wright headline first week’s guests. Ashleigh Banfield’s new hour-long talk show debuts March 1 at 10 p.m.
TVN Tech One-On-One | Laying The Foundation For NewsNation At Nexstar
Blake Russell, EVP of stations operations and content development for Nexstar, has spent the past pandemic year building out a new newsroom, studios and infrastructure for NewsNation. Along the way, he’s been eliminating holdover technology from the company’s Tribune acquisition and built a novel, enterprise-level content sharing tool. Note: This story is available to TVNewsCheck Premium members only. If you would like to upgrade your free TVNewsCheck membership to Premium now, you can visit your Member Home Page, available when you log in at the very top right corner of the site or in the Stay Connected Box that appears in the right column of virtually every page on the site. If you don’t see Member Home, you will need to click Log In or Subscribe.
Still reeling from the sudden departure of its news director, NewsNation just lost its best known and most experienced reporter. Dean Reynolds signed off Friday after six months as national political correspondent for the Chicago-based newscast on Nexstar Media Group’s WGN America cable network.
Marketing Vet Takes On ‘NewsNation’ Challenge
For Jonathan Killian, NewsNation’s new VP for creative marketing and brand communications, one one of the first challenges is helping viewers find the fledgling national newscast, whose brand of center-of-the-road news has been slow to get off the ground with viewers.
TVNewsCheck‘s Michael Depp and Harry Jessell look at TV’s M&A prospects this year following Gray’s acquisition of Quincy and discuss the major moves at Nexstar’s NewsNation.
Bill Shine, the former Fox News producer-turned executive, who later served as White House communications director under President Trump in 2018-2019, is consulting on Nexstar’s NewsNation cable channel. Shine joined NewsNation ahead of its launch last year (it launched as a primetime news block in September 2020), a spokesperson for Nexstar says. He is not an employee of the TV station giant.
Just weeks before the planned expansion of NewsNation, the Chicago-based cable news operation on WGN America suddenly finds itself without a news director. Sandy Pudar, who oversaw the launch of the three-hour primetime newscast last September, resigned Tuesday, multiple sources confirmed. It’s not yet known why she quit.
Nexstar’s cable network gets a new name and will add two hours of news programming on weeknights beginning March 1 with Early Edition and The Donlon Report joining Banfield.
Jessell | ‘NewsNation’ Needs New Time, Bigger Budget
Nexstar’s new national newscast shows promise with its polish and presentation, but to really compete in the ratings it needs an earlier start time and more resources behind it.
Anchor Joe Donlon will sit down with the president at the White House and the interview will air on Tuesday starting at 8 p.m. ET. The network, which has promised to stick to facts, said it will run the interview in its entirety, with almost no editing.
Nexstar stations are said to be apoplectic over the decision by CNN to terminate its video sharing agreement with the company’s 197 affiliates. The move came in retaliation for a Nexstar corporate edict that its stations withhold breaking news video from competing networks so NewsNation can have it first.
