List of stations owned or operated by Nexstar Media Group

The Nexstar Media Group is a television broadcasting company which owns or operates 171 television stations across the United States, many of whom are affiliates with the four "major" U.S. television networks located in small to medium-sized markets. It also operates all of the stations owned by affiliated companies, such as Mission Broadcasting and Marshall Broadcasting, under local marketing agreements.^[1][2][3][4]

The following stations listed below are either owned and operated by Nexstar, or controlled by Nexstar through management services agreements (MSAs) with affiliated companies like Mission Broadcasting and Marshall Broadcasting, among others, to comply with current FCC ownership limits.^[5] Until November 2015, Nexstar also held the license of one station which was operated by Sinclair through an MSA. Most of the stations Nexstar owns and operates were acquired through acquisitions of Quorum Broadcasting in 2003, Newport Television in 2012, Communications Corporation of America in 2015, and Media General in 2017.

Each Nexstar cluster also operates its own news website, although they do not use their station branding or call letters in the addresses, choosing to use a slogan related to their area (though in all cases call letter-specific addresses are retained by Nexstar and redirect to a station's site for familiarity to site visitors and to discourage cybersquatting). However, the Media General stations acquired by Nexstar have retained their previous addresses, including call letter-specific addresses, and some Nexstar stations have resumed using call-only addresses.

Formerly, Nexstar stations also maintained separate deal of the day sites on the .biz domain with paid "ask the experts" sections and advertorial sections, though the decline of the local deal of the day business model, along with warniness of viewers of .biz sites from its association with spam marketing saw these sites eventually close when the Media General deal closed.

Current Nexstar stations

Stations are arranged alphabetically by state and by city of license.

Notes:

• (Q) – Indicates a station owned by Quorum Broadcasting prior to its acquisition by Nexstar in 2003.
• (¤¤) – Indicates a station acquired by Nexstar from Newport Television in 2012 & 2013. WXXA was sold concurrently to Shield Media in 2012. Nexstar would eventually operate the station in 2017.
• (~~) – Indicates a station acquired by Nexstar from Citadel Communications in 2014.
• (≈≈) – Indicates a station owned by Grant Broadcasting prior to its acquisition by Nexstar in 2014.
• (##) – Indicates a station owned by Communications Corporation of America prior to its acquisition by Nexstar in 2015.
• (λ) – Indicates a station acquired by Nexstar from Landmark Media Enterprises in 2015.
• (§§) – Indicates a station owned by Media General prior to its merger by Nexstar in 2017.
• (++) – Indicates a station owned by West Virginia Media Holdings prior to its acquisition by Nexstar in 2017.

Other Notes:

• ¹ The sale of KFTA to Mission Broadcasting is pending; Nexstar will continue to operate the station after the sale.
• ² These stations are nominally owned by Mission Broadcasting and operated by Nexstar under local marketing agreements.
• ³ WYZZ is owned by Cunningham Broadcasting and operated by Nexstar under a local marketing agreement.
• ⁴ These stations are nominally owned by Marshall Broadcasting and operated by Nexstar under a shared service agreement.
• ⁵ These stations are nominally owned by Vaughan Media and operated by Nexstar under a shared service agreement.
• ⁶ These stations are nominally owned by White Knight Broadcasting and operated by Nexstar under a shared service agreement.
• ⁷ KZUP was owned by White Knight Broadcasting and operated by Nexstar under a shared service agreement from 2015 to 2016, prior to its acquisition by Nexstar in 2016.
• ⁸ WDVM-TV serves as a sub-market station to the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
• ⁹ These stations are nominally owned by Shield Media and operated by Nexstar under a shared service agreement.
• ¹⁰ These stations are nominally owned by Tamer Media, LLC, and operated by Nexstar under a shared service agreement.
• ¹¹ WNAC is owned by Super Towers, Inc. and operated by Nexstar under a local marketing agreement.
• ¹² WHDF is owned by Lockwood Broadcast Group and operated by Nexstar under a time brokerage agreement; a full acquisition of the station is pending.^[6]
• ¹³ KRBK is owned by Koplar Communications and operated by Nexstar under a local marketing agreement; a full acquisition of the station is pending.^[7]

Former Nexstar stations

Other Notes:

• ¹ Owned by Four Points Media Group, Nexstar operated these stations through a shared services agreement.
• ² Owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, Nexstar operated WUHF through a shared services agreement.
• ³ From 2006–2015, Clear Channel Communications, Newport Television, and later Sinclair would operate WLYH through a local marketing agreement.

Sources

External links

• Official website