Outlet track record
CBS17 / WNCN
U.S. center, local broadcast
CBS17 (WNCN) is a Nexstar-owned CBS affiliate serving the Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville Research Triangle market in North Carolina. As a local broadcast station, its day-to-day coverage focuses on regional news, weather, and sports rather than national political commentary. Its local reporting is rated as least biased and highly factual by independent monitors, though its parent company Nexstar has cultivated a friendly relationship with the Trump administration to secure FCC approval for a major acquisition.
Owned byNexstar Media Group, Inc. (publicly traded; ticker: NXST)
LeaningU.S. center, local broadcast
On the administrationmostly neutral
2.5average bias score across 2 stories
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun