While Nexstar Media Group vehemently disagrees, the FCC has determined that the company founded and led by Chairman/CEO Perry Sook and the independently owned company it provides services to — Mission Broadcasting — “have committed apparent willful and repeated violations of the Act and the Rules, and are apparently liable for their respective violations in two areas.”
As such, the FCC has given the nation’s No. 1 licensee of broadcast TV stations two divestiture options under which Mission and Nexstar can remedy the matter.
Oh, there are also proposed forfeitures for each company “tailored to their apparent violations.” Nexstar is being asked to pay upward of $1.2 million in fines.
