Staying in the Nexstar Family

The Cleveland Palin Dealer reports that it appears that WJW in Cleveland will be staying in the Nexstar family.

The paper writes, WJW was in the middle of high-stakes negotiations between Nexstar and the station’s former owner, Fox Television. Both companies made no secret of wanting Channel 8, which will remain a Fox affiliate carrying Fox network programming. But it appears that Nexstar could not pressured or persuaded to part with it.

Fox had its eye on several of the Tribune stations that were Fox affiliates, particularly ones in NFL cities. A couple of stations might end up in Fox’s hands, but, according to industry sources, all indications are that Cleveland will not be one of them.

What we know with absolute certainty is that WJW now is part of the Nexstar nation of stations. The station’s website already had the Nexstar ownership listed by Thursday afternoon.

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