Irving-based broadcaster Nexstar Media Group Inc. has reached a comprehensive multiyear distribution agreement with YouTube TV to launch 59 stations on its platform.
The pact includes its 29 CW-affiliated television stations, its 26 MyNetworkTV affiliates, and its four independent stations in Chicago, Washington, D.C., Oklahoma City, and Baton Rouge.
It also renews and extends YouTube TV’s carriage of America’s fastest-growing cable news network, NewsNation, which is home to such shows as “Cuomo,” “Dan Abrams Live,” and “Banfield.” In addition, Nexstar extended carriage of all of its CBS-affiliated stations on YouTube TV. No financial terms were released.
“These agreements with YouTube TV underscore the importance of Nexstar’s national and local content on its platform,” Nexstar Chief Operating Officer Tom Carter said in a statement. “Not only will Nexstar’s 40 CBS-affiliated stations continue being carried on YouTube TV, but for the first time Nexstar’s 59 CW, MyNetworkTV, and independent stations will be carried on the platform, bringing Nexstar’s CBS, The CW Network, and MyNetworkTV content, as well as local news, weather, sports, and other proprietary and syndicated content to YouTube TV subscribers in local markets across the country.
Carter expressed excitement about the extension of NewsNation’s partnership with YouTube TV, especially as the cable network is set to expand to 24-hours-a-day weekday news programming with the launch of ‘The Hill’ and ‘Elizabeth Vargas Reports.’
A top 10 digital news and information property
Nexstar is a leading diversified media company that produces and distributes local and national news, sports, and entertainment content across television, streaming, and digital platforms. That includes almost 300,000 hours of original video content a year.
Nexstar owns the largest local broadcasting group in the nation comprised of top network affiliates, with 200 owned or partner stations in 116 U.S. markets reaching 212 million people. Its national television properties include The CW, America’s fifth major broadcast network, NewsNation, America’s fastest-growing national news and entertainment cable network reaching 70 million television homes, popular entertainment multicast networks Antenna TV and Rewind TV, and a 31.3% ownership stake in TV Food Network.
The company’s portfolio of digital assets, including The Hill, which Nexstar acquired in 2021, and BestReviews, are collectively a Top 10 U.S. digital news and information property.
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