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Nexstar Broadcasting Television Stations to Air “Border Tour,” an Exclusive Special Report About Life Along the US-Mexico Border
Half-hour Special Will Air on 85 TV Stations in 58 Markets Across the Country IRVING, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Nexstar Media Group, (Nasdaq: NXST) announced
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nHalf-hour Special Will Air on 85 TV Stations in 58 Markets Across the Country\n\n IRVING, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nNexstar Media Group, (Nasdaq: NXST) announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc., will begin airing “Border Tour,” a special report chronicling life along the southern border of the United States. The 30-minute Nexstar-produced broadcast is the product of a team of Nexstar journalists reporting for BorderReport.com, a Nexstar-created website launched this fall and dedicated year-round to coverage of immigration and every-day life at the US-Mexico border. The ambitious special about the people and families living, working, and traveling along the border will air multiple times during the next five weeks on 85 Nexstar television stations in 58 markets across the country. Digital users can also view “Border Tour” anytime on the BorderReport.com website.\n\n\nEarlier this fall, a team of Nexstar journalists including Julian Resendiz (@JulianDFW), KTSM 9 News El Paso correspondent for BorderReport.com; Sandra Sanchez (@SandraESanchez), award-winning journalist and South Texas correspondent for BorderReport.com; and Anna Wiernicki (@AnnaEWiernicki), Correspondent for Nexstar’s Washington, DC News Bureau, traveled the entire length of the southern border, beginning in San Diego, CA and concluding ten days later in Brownsville, TX. Equipped with Nexstar’s state-of-the-art multi-camera IP vehicle, the “Border Tour” team delivered nightly reports for Nexstar newscasts, filed digital stories at BorderReport.com, and engaged in real-time livestreaming while on the road. In the “Border Tour” special report, these stories come together in gripping fashion as the team takes a look back at what they saw and what they learned as they made the nearly 2000-mile journey along the southern border. \n\n\nIn “Border Tour,” Nexstar’s team of reporters journeys from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, taking viewers right up to the border fence as a legal Mexican immigrant speaks to his family for the first time in years through wire mesh. Viewers will follow and hear from children and workers who cross the border every day to go to school or a job. The BorderReport.com team also examines the hundreds of miles of border where only the Rio Grande separates the United States and Mexico, and at one point...