Nexstar-Tegna Deal: Eight States File Emergency Motion to Halt ‘Disastrous’ Merger of Local TV Broadcasters

By Todd Spangler

Todd Spangler

NY Digital Editor

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Nexstar Media Group declared Thursday that its $6.2 billion takeover of rival TV station company Tegna had closed — but now eight state attorneys general seeking to block the merger have stepped up their legal fight.

On Friday, the eight states filed a motion for a temporary restraining order in California federal court that would enjoin Nexstar from “integrating or commingling the assets and operations it has acquired from what was, yesterday, a substantial competitor, Tegna” and forcing Nexstar to “hold separate the acquired Tegna assets pending further proceedings.”

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