In his first public comments since a federal judge blocked Nexstar’s merger with Tegna, Nexstar CEO Perry Sook took aim at DirecTV, one of the plaintiffs maneuvering against the $6.2 billion deal.
“The idea that anyone, Nexstar included, would be a ‘broadcast behemoth’ – to me, that term is kind of an oxymoron, given who we compete against,” Sook told Inside Edition host Debra Norville in a 1-on-1 conversation Tuesday at the NAB Show in Las Vegas. Amazon, Google and Meta, he added, “are multi-trillion-dollar companies. Even DirecTV, which is one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, is twice the
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