Nexstar Says Federal Judge’s Freezing Of Tegna Merger “Degrades The Very Assets It Purports To Protect”

Nexstar has fired back at a lawsuit filed by DirecTV and attorneys general of several states aiming to derail the local TV giant’s $6.2 billion merger with rival Tegna. In a request for an expedited appeal filed with the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday evening, the company called a federal judge’s preliminary injunction in April that […]

By Dade Hayes