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After weeks of rehearsals, Nexstar Media’s new national newscast on WGN America is just about ready to go. Click here to continue reading on Broadcasting & Cable.

It’s a little amusing that the novelty of a news program would be that it’s…news. “It’s just that in this time slot, on cable, in primetime, that’s an anomaly, because it’s consumed by talk and opinion,” starts Joe Donlon, the St. Louis native who’s one of the weeknight anchors of WGN America’s soon-to-premiere cable news […]

Perry Sook, Nexstar Media Group’s chairman and president, says the company is dedicating the equivalent of $120 million this year to promote its national newscast, News Nation. How will that money be spent? What media is being used? And what will the creative be? Click here to continue reading on TVNewsCheck.

Nexstar Media believes it has created the nation’s next great evening newscast. All it needs to do now is get viewers to agree. Click here to continue reading on Variety.

When it comes to news, consumers today are bombarded with a variety of sources, from TV channels to social media. But amid cable news outlets with partisan hosts, and Twitter and Facebook posts of questionable accuracy, is there space for another kind of national newscast? Click here to continue reading on Oregonian.

CNN, Fox News and MSNBC will have some competition this fall thanks to a Connersville native who is launching News Nation in prime-time on WGN America cable network. Click here to continue reading.

Little Rock media couple, Ashley Ketz and Aaron Nolan of KARK, are moving to Chicago. Click here to continue reading on Arkansas Business.

(The Journal Gazette) Marni Hughes joined national cable network WGN America and will lead the anchor team that launches a new national newscast, News Nation, set to debut Sept. 1. Hughes’ first job in television was on-air at WKJG. Click here to read more.

(Columbia Journalism Review) The must-watch TV of the moment is local news. As the spread of the coronavirus and fervent anti-racism demonstrations play out differently in cities, counties, and states across the country, Americans are relying on their local stations to broadcast essential information. Click here to read more.