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Nexstar Media’s “NewsNation” Debuts Tonight at 8 PM ET on WGN America, Reaching 75 Million U.S. TV Households
“NewsNation” Broadcast is the Largest Launch of Traditional, Unbiased Journalism for Prime-Time National Cable Television in Over 24 Years Live Daily
About this update from Nexstar Media Group, Inc.
[{"type":"text","content":"\n“NewsNation” Broadcast is the Largest Launch of Traditional, Unbiased Journalism for Prime-Time National Cable Television in Over 24 Years\n\n\nLive Daily Three-Hour Newscast Features 150 Dedicated Reporters and Staff; Will Leverage the Knowledge of 5,400 Local Journalists from Nexstar’s 110 Award-Winning Newsrooms \n\n CHICAGO & IRVING, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nRepresenting the return of traditional, trusted, fact-based news reporting to cable television, “NewsNation,” a three hour prime-time national newscast, debuts tonight at 8 p.m. ET on WGN America, Nexstar Media Group, Inc’s (Nasdaq: NXST) wholly-owned cable network which reaches approximately 75 million U.S. TV households. NewsNation will air from 8 p.m. ET to 11 p.m. ET, seven days a week.\n\n\nNewsNation will bring viewers breaking news and live video of the day’s most important national news stories and issues, as well as the most impactful regional and local news from across the U.S. NewsNation’s digital team of reporters and producers will also deliver news twenty-four hours a day through NewsNation’s digital properties and its new mobile app, NewsNationNow. \n\n\nNewsNation will feature a newly-hired staff of 150 reporters, producers, writers and photo-journalists dedicated exclusively to the newscast, and will draw on the local and regional expertise of Nexstar’s 5,400 local journalists in 110 award-winning newsrooms across the country. To generate awareness of the company’s new national primetime newscast, Nexstar is backing the launch of NewsNation with $100 million of local market promotion across its 196 local television stations, social media, and select radio and cable outlets nationwide.\n\n\n“A lot has changed in the many years since the last launch of a national cable news network,” said Perry Sook, Nexstar’s Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer. “Most importantly, the programming on other cable news networks is now dominated by shows built around opinion and analysis — not always facts. NewsNation is committed to bringing American consumers the fact-based news that impacts their lives without the opinion or bias of ‘talking heads’.”\n\n\nMr. Sook continued, “Fact-based television news reporting is by far the most trusted and valued news source for consumers and NewsNation’s focus on bringing unbiased reporting of the day’s most important ne...