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Rumblings began to grow after Tom Carter, a former Nexstar executive & senior advisor to CEO Perry Sook & the company's board of directors, shared at a recent conference how the company (the new owners of The CW) could purchase the Disney stations with "little friction" and teased that there might be a chance to[...]

Our line-up for this morning includes some updates on The Flash/The CW/Nexstar editorial from Wednesday, Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder paid tribute to U2 during CBS's The Kennedy Center Honors broadcast, HBO Max's Station Eleven showrunner Patrick Somerville polling viewers about the franchise's future, The CW's Superman & Lois star Chad L Coleman teasing Bruno Mannheim's[...]

Discovery are taking a major backseat and Nexstar Media Group is taking over Specifically, if the non-drop of the teaser trailer for the 13-episode ninth & final season of The CW's Grant Gustin, Candice Patton & Danielle Panabaker-starring The Flash (more on that below) was the beginning of a larger rebranding start for the network[...]

Discovery step away as majority owners in The CW and Nexstar Media Group begins rebranding the network in its own image So why are we concerned? Because right now, it's impacting our ability to cover The Flash and Riverdale as they begin their final runs, the third season of Superman & Lois, the premiere of[...]

We will have some carryover commitment for the CBS and the WBD programming in that year, but it's minimal at that point," Nexstar executive vice president and chief financial officer Lee Ann Gliha shared during the call earlier today Though Nexstar CEO Perry Sook added, "Warners and Paramount are not precluded from selling us programming, it's[...]

Via an SEC filing and press release, Nexstar Media Group confirmed its pending deal with Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) and Paramount Global (PG) for a 75% stake in the 16-year-old broadcast network Along with continuing to produce programming content for the network, the WBD and PG will each retain a 12.5% ownership interest The move[...]

Earlier, The Wall Street Journal reported that local television station owner Nexstar Media Group was close to a deal to acquire 75% of The CW, with current owners Paramount Global & Warner Bros Discovery each retaining 12.5% ownership stakes While representatives from all parties involved are remaining silent at the moment, the WSJ also reports[...]

Some of NBC's largest affiliates – Gray Television, Hearst, Nexstar, Tegna, and Sinclair Broadcast Group – have told the network that they will be preempting the special The number of affiliates represented by those five media companies makes-up over half of NBC's broadcast reach in the U.S. 30 Rock: A One-Time Special As for the reason originally[...]