Nexstar

The extension, which will run through 2027, adds another year to the agreement

Says current methods “inadequately” measure its audiences and their impact

The CW will broadcast all NASCAR Xfinity Series races starting in 2025 with 33 race weekends a year

Former Fox Corporation exec will join Nexstar on August 21; current president Thomas Carter will continue as senior advisor through end of this year

Multiyear agreement covers Nexstar’s KHON-TV (Fox), KHON2 (CW), and KHII-TV (MyNet), NewsNation and Rewind TV

The station group also appointed Mitzi Coleman to VP/GM of broadcasting and digital operations serving Wheeling, West Virginia And Steubenville, Ohio

Nexstar has “dragged…new viewers of a competing broadcaster against their will” into the dispute “regardless of DirecTV’s agreements to serve these viewers,” DirecTV told the FCC

Starting this fall, the CW Network to air football games every Saturday throughout the season

Jerry Walsh elevated to SVP of local content development; Austin Kellerman named VP of local digital content strategy

Nexstar says DirecTV rejected a plan to extend the negotiation; DirecTV says Nexstar is demanding “more than double” the current retrans fees