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Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Inc., (NASDAQ: NXST) is an entity of broadcast television stations headquartered in Irving, Texas. The company consists of 50 television stations across the U.S., ranging from market sizes 9(a) (Washington, D.C. sub-market) to 201 (St. Joseph, Missouri). 43 of the stations are broadcasting at full power, with the other 4 broadcasting at low power.

Political donations

The CEO of Nexstar, Perry Sook, has donated over $4,300 to Republican candidates and officials.^[1]

Television stations

The old Nexstar logo prior to 2006.

These stations are either owned and operated by Nexstar, or controlled by Nexstar under LMAs with Sinclair Broadcast Group or Four Points Media Group.^{[2 ]} Nexstar also holds the license of one station which is operated by Newport Television under an LMA. Most of the stations Nexstar owns and operates were acquired through the acquisition of Quorum Broadcasting in 2003. Many of these stations are licensed under the Mission Broadcasting brand, operated under Local Service Agreements with Nexstar to comply with current FCC ownership limits.[1] Many viewers of Nexstar owned or operated stations have complained that these stations have lagged far behind other stations in those markets in beginning high definition broadcasting. They also have a mandate for their TV station websites not to be named for the station, but for their local area, as almost every station they own has a local slogan.

• ¹WHAG serves as a sub-market station to the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
• ²Nexstar owns the station's license but management capabilities belong to Newport Television through another station, CBS affiliate WHP-TV, Newport operates the station under a Local Marketing Agreement.
• ³A sale of KFTA to Mission Broadcasting is pending; Nexstar will continue to operate the station after the sale.

References

External links

• Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Inc.