Outlet track record
Nexstar Media Group
U.S. center-right (corporate; local news mostly centrist, with some conservative-leaning national programming)
Nexstar is a publicly traded company and the largest local TV station owner in the U.S. It runs local stations and cable and network outlets, including NewsNation and The CW. Its local newscasts are mostly straightforward. Its corporate decisions have drawn scrutiny for appearing accommodating to the Trump administration, which approved its Tegna merger in 2026.
Owned byPublicly traded company (NASDAQ: NXST), run by chairman and CEO Perry Sook. Its main shareholders are institutional investors. It owns The CW and NewsNation, and it closed its acquisition of Tegna in March 2026.
LeaningU.S. center-right (corporate; local news mostly centrist, with some conservative-leaning national programming)
On the administrationmixed
2.5average bias score across 2 stories
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun