Thwarted on Friday in what looked to be a Donald Trump-approved $6.2 billion local station mega-deal to merge with Tegna, Nexstar is vowing to march forward in the courts. At the same time, New York Attorney General Letitia James, one of the leading advocates to stop the Nexstar-Tegna combo, is promising to continue to work to keep the merger from becoming a reality.
“This transaction closed more than four weeks ago following receipt of all required regulatory approvals from the Federal Communications Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice,” the company declared this evening after a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction blocking the March 19 deal greenlighted by the FCC under Trump bellowing “Get That Deal Done!”
Everything is on hold now until a DirecTV instigated antitrust trial concludes.
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