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Over on cable, Nexstar's NewsNation is adding their sister paper The Hill to the network, and aspires to be 24/7 news from moving entertainment programmes (that notoriously aired during HM's passing) to the weekends.

Nexstar is bringing together two of its prized properties this spring with the debut of a daily “The Hill” program on NewsNation.

Chairman and CEO Perry Sook revealed that previously discussed series based on the political news outlet, acquired by Nexstar in 2021 for $130 million, will premiere in April and run Monday-Friday.

“Next steps for us, obviously, Elizabeth Vargas is going to the network in April,” Sook said during a Thursday call with investors breaking down Nexstar’s fourth-quarter 2022 earnings results. “And by the end of April we will have a program schedule that will be news 24/5. So we will be a 24-hour news network Monday-Friday by the end of April and that will include the daytime expansion, the addition of ‘The Hill,’ the addition of the ‘Elizabeth Vargas Reports’ show at 6 o’clock Eastern, Monday-Friday. And at that point, obviously, we’re getting higher cost per thousands in news programming than we did in off-network programming.”

(Variety)

The show's launch is being touted by NewsNation and sister WPIX's social media platforms; earlier today, WPIX anchor Tamsden Fadal interviewed Vargas on NewsNation's Facebook page:

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The Gray new set extravaganza continues... KXII, their CBS/Fox/MyNetworkTV/Ion affiliate in the Sherman-Ada region of Texas and Oklahoma (Texoma), unveiled quietly a new set last night, a cookie-cutter FX Group design that reminds of their WNCN design. For this small market, a rimshot tucked between the Dallas and Oklahoma City DMAs and which easily receives each market's channels, it is a quite decent upgrade. We have mainly chastised these new sets (which certainly look quite dated in contrast to what BDI has done for some other sisters) but for many of these smaller markets it works.

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The News 12 Networks (owned by Altice USA) have been working behind the scenes on new sets for each of its hyperlocal networks targeting the outer parts of New York City and surrounding areas in New Jersey and Connecticut. These were designed by James Yates Production Design, with LED displays provided by AV Design Services and Barco. The first to launch the new sets is the Westchester network, based out of Woodbury, where it shares with the Long Island network; an exact set for them has been already built and will launch later this month.




The new set is part of a long-term investment by Altice to rebrand the network, including a massive facility rebuild which has also led to these new sets; a temporary set has been on-air since last August with many elements of the new set designs already present.

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