Nexstar Media Group Inc. (NASDAQ: NXST) is expanding its local news operations in Greater Washington, bringing together its two area television stations into one Northwest D.C. location and rebranding as D.C. News Now.
The Irving, Texas-based company, billed as the largest television station owner in the U.S., said Wednesday it will combine its D.C.-based CW affiliate WDCW-TV (Channel 50) with Hagerstown, Maryland, independent station WDVM-TV (Channel 25) into a new “state-of-the-art newsroom and studio currently under construction” on Wisconsin Avenue.
Last year, Nexstar signed on for an additional 29,000 square feet at 2121 Wisconsin Ave. NW, a six-story, 110,000-square-foot Glover Park building. JBG Smith Properties sold the building earlier this year to New York’s Marx Realty for $27.7 million.
Local NBC affiliate WRC-TV (Channel 4) and CBS affiliate WUSA-TV (Channel 9) are both headquartered a little further north along Wisconsin Avenue.
The new D.C. News Now will be supported…
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