By Cynthia Littleton Business Editor WGN America has set the anchor team for the nightly three-hour newscast that is coming to the primetime lineup of Nexstar Media Group’s cable network as of Sept.
1. WGN America is set for a radical primetime makeover from a focus on scripted entertainment series to three hours of a nationally focused news. “News Nation” has been billed as a traditional just-the-facts newscast that will be fueled by the news resources of 110 Nexstar TV newsrooms around the country.
Nexstar has hired about 130 additional journalists to produce the “News Nation” block that will originate from WGN-TV in Chicago.
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