We have Robert Sherman, who raised his hand immediately. How many journalists have you sent there? What kind of resources and field crews?įor a network that is only 18 months old, I am incredibly proud of the Ukraine coverage. You debuted a live late evening newscast just as war in Ukraine was breaking out. We will make that ultimate leap here in the near future, I would say. You pivot when things like that happen and you see opportunities. There is not an exact date on it because each day we find something that occurs like a war, and we added that 11 o’clock hour and we are now not turning back from that. We started this year with 49 hours live in January, and here we are at the end of first quarter with 56 live hours per week. We are building the network, sometimes an hour at a time, sometimes multiple hours at a time. In an interview with TVNewsCheck Editor Michael Depp, Compton speaks to NewsNation’s new marketing push underway, its coverage of the war in Ukraine, where Nexstar’s acquisition of The Hill is figuring into TV plans and whether Bill Shine, the controversial former Fox executive whose work for the network polarized staffers, still has a role there. Collaboration with Nexstar’s owned stations has become more bidirectional, he notes, and he’s pleased with how talk shows from both Ashleigh Banfield and Dan Abrams have developed despite both struggling to connect with viewers. Sean Compton, president of the company’s networks division, says NewsNation’s initial staff of 150 “has doubled and will double again,” and that the network is still moving, hour by hour, along a trajectory that will eventually take it into 24/7 programming. Nexstar’s NewsNation may still be struggling to find an audience after its 2020 launch, but its chief executive says the network is profitable and right on track with its slow-growth strategy.
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