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Will Nexstar Pony Up for a New Building in Panama City?

It sure seems like storms hitting the U.S. are much stronger and are packing more of a punch these days.

FTVLive told you that when the hurricane blew into Panama City, it knocked Nexstar owned WMBB off the air and caused a lot of damage to their old building.

Is it time for Nexstar to think about moving to a new building?

It's been nearly a week since WMBB suffered building damage from Hurricane Michael.

In other parts of the country, local TV stations have moved into newer state-of-the-art broadcast facilities, closing longtime broadcast homes, and some planning moving operations.

So far, Tribune's Oklahoma City NBC station KFOR recently debuted its new broadcast home, built to withstand strong storms, especially in an area of the country known as "Tornado alley". Tribune is also planning new broadcast home for its Fayetteville-Fort Smith CBS station KFSM-KXNW.

Gray is planning a new broadcast home for its Augusta CBS station WRDW, slated to open in 2020.

Graham is working on moving Roanoke NBC station WSLS to new broadcast home by the end of this year. In 2017, Graham moved its Houston NBC affiliate KPRC into new digs.

NBC is moving its Philly duopoly WCAU-WWSI into new Comcast Technology Center building this week.

TEGNA is hard at work readying new broadcast home for its Houston CBS station KHOU in 2019.

It'll be interesting to see whether Nexstar could be mulling over investing in a new facility for its Panama City station?

Stay tuned…


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