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Nexstar Broadcasting and Las Vegas Raiders Reach Exclusive Multi-Market, Multi-Year Flagship Agreement on Content Partnership and Pre-Season Broadcast Rights
TV Stations in Los Angeles, Bay Area, Salt Lake City, Honolulu, and Bakersfield Become the “Official Home of Raiders’ Football” in Their Local Markets
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nTV Stations in Los Angeles, Bay Area, Salt Lake City, Honolulu, and Bakersfield Become the “Official Home of Raiders’ Football” in Their Local Markets\n\n\nAgreement Includes Raiders Pre-Season Games, Pre-Draft Special, Season Preview, The Silver and Black Show, Regular Season Post-Game Shows and Exclusively Produced Station Programming\n\n LAS VEGAS & IRVING, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nNexstar Broadcasting, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXST), and the National Football League’s Las Vegas Raiders, today announced they have reached an exclusive agreement on a content partnership and broadcast rights that will deliver Raiders’ pre-season football games and a variety of related programming to five Nexstar television markets across three states, reaching more than nine million television households.\n\n\nThe multi-year agreement will enable KTLA-TV in Los Angeles, KRON-TV in the Bay Area, KTVX-TV in Salt Lake City, KHON-TV in Honolulu, and KGET-TV in Bakersfield, CA, to become the “Official Home of the Raiders” in their respective markets and to air Raiders’ pre-season games, The Silver and Black Show, an annual NFL draft special, as well as a special preview of the upcoming season and regular post-game programming throughout the regular season. The broadcasts kicked off in April with an hour-long 2020 NFL pre-draft special.\n\n\n“Nexstar is proud to be entering into this multi-market, multi-year partnership with the Las Vegas Raiders, adding to our expansive portfolio of agreements with NFL franchises across the country,” said Tim Busch, President of Nexstar Broadcasting. “We are equally proud of our association with the executive team at the Raiders and to be bringing live pre-season football and additional programming to more than nine million television households across these five communities. Delivering exciting, high-quality, live sports programming to viewers and advertisers in our local communities is core to Nexstar’s mission—and Las Vegas Raiders football is as exciting as it gets. We want to thank the Raiders organization for making this partnership possible and we are looking forward to the upcoming 2020 football season.”\n\n\n“The Raiders and Nexstar are proud to announce a partnership that will bring Raiders content to more than nine million television households in three state...