A Sacramento federal magistrate judge has denied a motion designed to force Nexstar Media Group and TEGNA to respond to a question as part of the discovery process in its antitrust case filed by a group of state Attorneys General and DirecTV.
The decision is a win for the nation’s largest owner of broadcast TV stations — at least for this round. The alternative would have been providing the plaintiffs detailed “efficiencies” the merger brings, something Nexstar and TEGNA bemoaned as “overbroad, irrelevant,” and “unduly burdensome.”
