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Nexstar Media Inc. Promotes Andrew Alford to President of Broadcasting Division, Effective June 1
Experienced Media Executive and Nexstar Senior Vice President and Regional Manager Will Lead Company’s 198 Owned and Operated Television Stations IRVING,
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nExperienced Media Executive and Nexstar Senior Vice President and Regional Manager Will Lead Company’s 198 Owned and Operated Television Stations\n\n IRVING, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nNexstar Media Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: NXST), today announced that Andrew (Andy) Alford will be promoted to President of Broadcasting and will assume oversight responsibility for the long-term strategy and day-to-day operations of Nexstar’s 198 owned and operated television stations across the country and their related digital properties. Mr. Alford will begin his new duties on June 1 and report to Tom Carter, Nexstar President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Alford is taking over from Tim Busch, who is retiring on May 31 after more than 20 years with Nexstar.\n\nOver the course of his career, Mr. Alford has consistently demonstrated the ability to grow revenue and profitability at the stations he has led by identifying new streams of revenue, cultivating new business, developing a variety of innovative cross-platform solutions for advertisers and marketers, creating sponsorship opportunities, establishing operational efficiencies, and deepening his ties to the local communities in which he has worked.\n\nMr. Alford joined Nexstar in January 2017, following the company’s acquisition of Media General, Inc. He has served as Senior Vice President and Regional Manager for Nexstar’s Broadcasting Division since August 2017, overseeing the company’s television stations and digital properties in Chicago, Tampa, Indianapolis, St. Louis, and multiple stations in the Southeastern area of the United States.\n\n“Andy is an accomplished leader who brings more than thirty years of experience in broadcast management, sales, local news, and programming to his new role at Nexstar,” said Mr. Carter. “He has achieved high levels of success throughout his career and has been instrumental in advancing Nexstar’s business objectives and sales leadership and has been responsible for overseeing a considerable number of markets with great success. Our strategy of appointing proven broadcast and digital media leaders with long-term records of delivering industry-leading innovation, distribution and core revenue growth, meticulous M&A integration and enterprise-wide cost management has been fundamental to...