Nexstar Media Group, the nation’s largest owner of TV stations, plans to overhaul the primetime lineup of the WGN America cable channel with the launch of a three-hour nightly national newsca…
The Irving, Texas-based broadcast group expects the “News Nation” newscast based out of WGN’s ample studios in Chicago to debut by mid-summer.executives say the 8 p.m.-11 p.m. ET newscast will be focused on breaking news and in-depth features from around the country.
Moreover, Nexstar chairman-CEO Perry Sook and Sean Compton, the veteran Tribune programming executive veteran who is now exec VP of WGN America, surveyed the landscape and saw an opportunity for a just-the-facts breaking news block in primetime when the all-news cablers are largely into opinion programming.. “We’ve got more journalists working for us than any other news organization in the country. We said ‘This is an opportunity.
WGN America has made multiple efforts during the past dozen years to beef up its primetime lineup, first with high-profile comedy series acquisitions, then with a costly push into original series under a previous regime at Tribune. More recently, the channel has been relying on syndicated entertainment programs and low-cost drama imports from Canada and the U.K. Sook said Nexstar would plow the savings on acquired programs into the budget for “News Nation.
Nexstar plans to hire about 120-140 journalists in Chicago to produce “News Nation.” The program will have a complementary digital app, News Nation Now, that will serve up breaking news on a 24/7 basis.
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