The TEGNA stations (including KPNX/NBC here in Phoenix) have started showing the Nexstar end graphic vid at the end of their newscasts today reflecting that they're in Nexstar's hands now.
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Nexstar ready to hook up with TEGNA?
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Nope. Gray owns NBC, CBS, My and CW. Hubbard owns ABC and FOX is owned by Coastal Television Broadcasting Company.
Now my market (Mankato, MN), Gray does own everything in the market. KEYC is CBS and Fox. KMNF-LD is NBC and CW. There is no ABC in market.
They have other markets like Presque Isle, Maine and Parkersburg, West Virginia same boat. No ABC in market and Gray owns everything. Lima Ohio they own all of the big 4
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Do they have an "oops" graphic to air in case those state Attorneys General get the injunction holding up the consummation process?
Channel 12's website still showed the Tegna logo, at least as of 5 PM.
I think in that case they will just go back to the Tegna graphic.
How would those Nexstar stations go back to a company that no longer exists?
These lawsuits should have been filed seven months ago upon the announcement of the proposed merger, not on the eve of the DOJ and FCC approvals. Day late, dollar short.
Undoing the deal won’t save any jobs. The two companies would just cut further.
And someone has made a video of different Tenga stations using the Nexstar graphic at the end of their newscast today.
Wonder what may happen in Charlotte? Nexstar owns WJZY-FOX46 and WMYT-CW55 with a shared signal, and has now acquired TEGNA NBC affiliate WCNC channel 36. Will a divestiture be required here? Or will they combine news operations of WJZY and WCNC under their Queen City News brand?
In Des Moines, In 2013 Nexstar bought WOI 5 (ABC) and then Pappas Communications sold KCWI 23 (CW) in 2016. Nexstar then bought Tribune which was channel 13 (NBC). Nexstar couldn't own all 3 channels so sold WOI 5 and KCWI to Tegna in 2019.
Now 2026 Nexstar now owns WOI 5, WHO 13, and KCWI 23 as they were granted a waiver so Nexstar could own all 3 channels.
Now 2026 Nexstar now owns WOI 5, WHO 13, and KCWI 23 as they were granted a waiver so Nexstar could own all 3 channels.
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Wow! That was quick and Nexstar wasted no time at all to paste their name on their new acquisitions.
Are the acquired Tegna stations already doing NewsNation promos?
I'm curious about one thing in Knoxville. WATE (Nexstar) and WBIR (formerly Tegna) will obviously be combining facilties, and we'll have one less newsroom in town. WATE is located in the historic Greystone mansion, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, and has housed WATE since 1965. I could see Nexstar getting a pretty penny for this building and bunking in with WBIR. Just curious.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Oh, I'm sure that graphic was loaded on all the Tegna stations' servers some time ago.
WMYT wasn’t mentioned as one of the divestures. It’s possible that the channel could move to 46.2.
I could see WJZY/WMYT moving in with WCNC since their studios are larger. Could be some layoffs. (I hope not).
Not sure if it will be one news operation or not. There could be some crossover programming (maybe Carolina Sports Live repeating on WCNC on the weekends and Charlotte Today repeating on WJZY (if it continues)
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True and also in cities where Tegna and Nexstar had separate offices prior to the merger. It will be interesting to see where Nexstar both layoffs people and which offices are shut down because of this.
Yes this also includes affiliation changes in some parts of the country because of Nexstars ownership of the CW is a factor here.
Checked WOI 5 tonight and their newscasts say Nexstar now also. Surprising how they even let them do it as they own The CW and Newsnation and now 2 or 3 different affiliates in some cities.
The CW already airs 1 Newsnation show "The Hill Sunday" and when there is town hall meetings with Cumo they broadcast it both on Newsnation and The CW.
The CW already airs 1 Newsnation show "The Hill Sunday" and when there is town hall meetings with Cumo they broadcast it both on Newsnation and The CW.
Said in another thread wrongly; wanted to delete there, but can't: I hate to say it, but IMO, this hostile takeover of Tegna by Nexstar (where all former Tegna stations had to become Nexstar's) is the TV equivalent of when Gannett (now USA Today Co.) bought out Gatehouse; some of the papers that were of Gatehouse were very interesting newspapers, also IMO, but when Gannett took 'em over (thereby bringing papers like The Oklahoman of Oklahoma City and The Gainesville Sun under that control, not to leave out the Columbus Dispatch and Akron Beacon Journal), that was just as much the death of newspapers as this Nexstar hostile takeover of Tegna is of television news.
It was not a hostile takeover. Both TEGNA and Nexstar were willing participants in the merger.
A hostile takeover is where one company buys out the stock of another company over the objections of the target company’s management. The shareholders, not management, decide the company’s fate.
You have that backwards. Gatehouse bought out Gannett. The resultant merged company took the Gannett name, which created the misunderstanding.
And the version of Gannett that was purchased by Gatehouse was itself a publishing company that was spun off from the original Gannett in 2015. That “new” company took the legacy Gannett name, while the remaining legacy broadcast company was rebranded as TEGNA.
So the last version of Gannett was actually the “new, new Gannett” before the name change.
Newspapers were already dying long before the Gatehouse takeover. This is just extending the wake.
TEGNA and broadcast TV would still be on the ropes without the Nexstar merger.