Nexstar Media Group

Gray Television, which will air a package of five Cleveland Cavalier basketball games on two Ohio stations this season, said it made deals with Nexstar Media Group, Cox Media Group and Tegna to put the games on additional stations in Ohio.

Nexstar Media Group has been fined $720,000 — double the normal amount — for violating FCC rules while negotiating a new carriage deal last year with a cable company in Hawaii. The FCC’s Media Bureau, in an order issued today, said Nexstar violated agency rules by demanding that Honolulu-based Hawaiian Telcom agree not to file an FCC complaint against the broadcaster as a condition of reaching a new carriage deal. Hawaiian Telcom filed a complaint anyway.

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a SVP digital revenue development at the corporate level and a creative services director in a highly desirable local market.

News executives at Nexstar, E.W. Scripps, Sinclair, Fox Television Stations and ABC Owned Stations told a TVNewsCheck panel last week that collaborating more frequently between stations and their national news products is yielding important lessons about people and tech, not to mention better quality news.

A week after Charter and Disney made peace on the distribution front, DirecTV and Nexstar have set a multi-year carriage renewal, ending a dispute that started in early July.

The agreement was announced this morning in a brief joint press release, with the companies saying they “greatly appreciate the patience of their subscribers and viewers during this negotiation.” Signals from 176 Nexstar stations as well as cable network NewsNation had been restored on Sunday as the final deal was being completed.

The media executive with nearly 35 years of management, sales and marketing experience will oversee broadcast and digital operations in multiple markets.

CEO Perry Sook: “On the advertising front, our CW affiliates are already benefitting from increased advertising revenue and we expect national advertising revenue at the network to grow over time.”

NewsNation and WPIX New York, both part of Nexstar Media Group, unveiled two new studios on Tuesday at The Daily News Building on 42nd Street in New York, where the network and station both operate from. NewsNation expanded to 24 hours, Monday through Friday, on April 24, and WPIX marks 75 years on the air this year.

With gestures at nonpartisanship and hosts from the Ghosts of Cable News Past, NewsNation tries to break out in a crowded market with a fraught future.

The $1.35 per share dividend represents a 2.8% annualized yield based on the closing stock price on Jan. 26. The increase marks the company’s 10th consecutive annual cash dividend. increase.

The media advertising executive is charged with leading a transformation of sales strategy, leveraging Nexstar’s linear, digital, mobile and streaming platforms to develop new revenue.

Nexstar Media Group, which has long been known for its enviable balance sheet and knack for finding ways to economize, plans to fund its investment in The CW with proceeds from its sale of a Chicago property to a casino developer. While the company’s drive to wring profits out of The CW and also its pending sale of the Freedom Center have both been publicly disclosed, the dots were connected by CFO Lee Ann Gliha today at a conference hosted by investment firm Stephens. Nexstar President and COO Tom Carter also took part in the conference session.

The increase to $1.27 billion was driven by strong political advertising revenue and healthy year-over-year increases in distribution, digital and other revenue, offset somewhat by a decline in core advertising.

Verizon’s Fios TV and Nexstar Media Group are warning viewers that a dispute over retransmission-consent and other distribution fees could result in a programming blackout on Friday. The dispute involves 10 Nexstar TV stations including WPIX New York, Nexstar’s cable channel NewsNation and the Antenna TV digital broadcast network.

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a news anchor, a news director and a senior broadcast operations hub engineer.

Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Global to retain minority stakes and produce original, scripted content for The CW. Mark Pedowitz will continue as The CW’s chairman and chief executive officer

The increase to $1.2 billion was driven by strong political advertising revenue and healthy year-over-year increases in distribution, digital and other revenue, offset by a decline in core advertising.

The Sook-led Nexstar has delivered total shareholder returns of over 1,800% over the last 10 years.

The media executive with nearly 20 years of large market leadership experience will oversee broadcast and digital operations in multiple markets.

Nexstar Media Group, the nation’s biggest owner of television stations, is close to a deal to acquire majority control of The CW network from co-owners Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Global, according to people familiar with the matter. Under the terms being discussed, Nexstar would acquire 75% of The CW, a broadcast network aimed primarily at teens and young adults, with Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery each retaining 12.5% stakes, the people said.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if we owned a broadcast network and maybe other cable networks that we layer on top of our local content foundation,” Nexstar Media Group CEO Perry Sook said when asked on a podcast to envision what Nexstar would look like in 2032. Nexstar has reportedly been discussing acquiring a majority stake in The CW. The CW is now a joint venture of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery and Nexstar is one of its largest affiliate groups.

The increase to $1.2 billion was driven by gains across all revenue categories including core, political distribution, digital and other.

Nexstar Media Group’s board of directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.90 per share on its Class A common stock. The dividend is payable on Friday, May 27, to shareholders of record on Friday, May 13. Also, Tegna‘s board declared a regular quarterly dividend of 9.5 cents per share, payable on July 1 to stockholders of record as of the close of business on June 3.

The decrease to $1.25 billion from 4Q 2020 came despite Strong year-over-year growth across all of Nexstar’s non-political revenue sources. Excluding political, net revenue increased 13.8% year-over-year. For the full year, net revenue hit $4.65 billion, a 3.3% increase over the prior year.

AT&T Inc.’s WarnerMedia and ViacomCBS are exploring a possible sale of a significant stake or all of the CW Network, which they jointly own, according to people familiar with the matter. Among the suitors is Nexstar Media Group, the nation’s biggest TV station group and a large owner of affiliates of the network, the people close to the talks said. The CW caters primarily to teens and young adults.

Nexstar Media Group promotes the experienced company veteran to lead its NBC-CW affiliate in Georgia.

The change comes as Nielsen adds BBO homes to its local TV measurement.

“In Q3 and in Q4, 14 of the top 25 categories are up,” said Nexstar President-COO Tom Carter. “Core television advertising, reflecting accelerated rebound demand for our premium local and national marketing solutions, led to a 13.3% year-over-year increase in revenue for this segment.”

The increase to $1.15 billion from 3Q 2020 was boosted by core ad revenue growth of 13%, higher distribution fee revenue (up 15%) and digital revenue growth of 47%.

A year after WHO-TV Des Moines, Iowa, abruptly let her go, Sonya Heitshusen filed an age and gender discrimination lawsuit Tuesday against WHO’s parent company, Nexstar Media Group. The lawsuit alleges Heitshusen, 54, was “thrown out to pasture” because she was no longer seen as camera-worthy, after years in which she saw her male colleagues receive better treatment from management.

The purchase of the national political platform “complements Nexstar’s leading digital platform,” the company said.

“Looking ahead, we’re encouraged by the overall acceleration in economic activity and the improved trajectory of ad spending across our footprint as market conditions continue to improve,” Chairman-CEO Perry Sook told analysts this morning.

The broadcasting executive with 30 years of management, sales and marketing experience will oversee broadcasting and digital operations in various markets across the U.S.

The Hill, a D.C.-based digital and print publication, is being more aggressively shopped by its owner Jimmy Finkelstein, sources tell Axios, including holding recent talks with broadcasting giant Nexstar Media Group.

Streaming News 2021 will wrap up Wednesday with a roundtable on technology and the free ad-supported TV approach to building a business on OTT. Register here.

Human resources executive Courtney Williams is promoted to the newly created postion of leading companywide efforts to expand diversity in hiring, promotion and retention.