Apr. 2, 2026
TV station merger gets challenging - and so does California's oil supply
A federal judge in Sacramento has temporarily blocked the merger of the country's two largest English-language TV station owners, handing a win to DirecTV and a coalition of state attorneys general who argued the deal would crush competition and gut local news.
A proposed merger of the largest and second-largest owners of English language television stations in the country has been blocked - for now - by a federal judge in Sacramento.
The combination of Nexstar Media Group Inc. and Tegna Inc. was approved last month by the Federal Communications Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice even though the company's post-merger market share exceeds 50%.
But Chief U.S. District Judge Troy L. Nunley of the Eastern District of ...
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