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Nexstar Media Group Launches NEXTGEN TV in Denver, Marking the Company’s 12th Market and 22nd Station to Rollout ATSC 3.0 in 2020

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Wednesday, December 23, 2020
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Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXST) today announced that KDVR-TV and KWGN-TV, Nexstar Inc.s local television stations serving the Denver, Colorado, area (DMA #16) have begun broadcasting with NEXTGEN TV, the revolutionary new digital broadcast technology powered by ATSC 3.0.

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  • Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXST) today announced that KDVR-TV and KWGN-TV, Nexstar Inc.s local television stations serving the Denver, Colorado, area (DMA #16) have begun broadcasting with NEXTGEN TV, the revolutionary new digital broadcast technology powered by ATSC 3.0.
  • Denver is Nexstars twelfth market to begin broadcasting with ATSC 3.0 this year, and the second top-20 market to do so.
  • When we finish our 2021 deployments, approximately 33% of all television households reached by a Nexstar television station will receive a NEXTGEN TV signal.
  • Following todays launch, the full list of Nexstar owned or operated stations/markets that have converted to NEXTGEN TV this year includes:

TEGNA Names Joan Barrett President and General Manager at WCNC in Charlotte

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Tuesday, February 18, 2020
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TEGNA Inc. (NYSE: TGNA) today announced Joan Barrett has been appointed president and general manager at WCNC, TEGNAs NBC affiliate in Charlotte, North Carolina, effective March 10, 2020.

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  • TEGNA Inc. (NYSE: TGNA) today announced Joan Barrett has been appointed president and general manager at WCNC, TEGNAs NBC affiliate in Charlotte, North Carolina, effective March 10, 2020.
  • Barrett is joining WCNC from Nexstar Media Group, where she has been vice president and general manager of KDVR and KWGN, Nexstars (formerly Tribune Media) FOX and CW-affiliated duopoly in Denver since 2016.
  • A career broadcast professional, Barrett brings 17 years of station leadership and more than 30 years of media experience to WCNC.
  • From 2003-2016, she was president and general manager at Sunflower Broadcasting/Schurz Communications in Wichita, Kansas, where she managed five television stations.