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Nexstar’s local stations have stopped live streaming of local newscasts from Thursday. The reason: pressure from cable companies. The catch-up of the shows won’t be available until two hours after the original live broadcast, and the live stream section of their websites will offer delayed telecasts of all shows, but breaking news will retain live streaming.



Some larger stations with full-flown streaming offerings, like KTLA (KTLA+) and WFLA (WFLA Now) are exempted (for now) from this corporate mandate. Scott Jones’ insider website FTVLive had broken the news last month.

www.ftvlive.com 

A similar situation had been attempted by Nexstar. They attempted to make the live streams of its local stations exclusive to participating subscribers of local cable companies in late 2020; the stations which took the trial were the WBRE/WYOU duopoly in Scranton and WTNH in New Haven. This experiment was unsuccessful, resulting in protests from site users and out-of-market locals, and lasted less than two months before lifting the paywall.

It seems that it's WGN, KTLA, and KRON who all have TV streaming apps are the only ones who still have live streaming allowed.  What a mess though, since everyone has been investing in their streaming, Nexstar has been bad it in the first place. The only reason why some of the stations have live streams was they were owned by someone else before and they decided to let them continue.  Only three of them have smart TV apps. PIX11 had a TV app when they were owned by Scripps , now they have a 2-hr delay feed.   Almost every other station group is better at this than them, even Sinclair.