Yes. Perry Snook: Perry Sook, Nexstar's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, commented, "2022 was a monumental year for Nexstar as we generated $5.2 billion of revenue as well as record levels of Adjusted EBITDA and free cash flow. Core advertising revenue was $478 million (down 3.3 percent year over year), while political advertising revenue was $266 million (up 1,307 percent). Perry Sook, Nexstars CEO, gave $5,000 to the companys PAC in the 2014, 2016 and 2018 election cycles. We doubled the size of the company and then doubled it again in the space of about two years. The last double-down made Nexstar worth $13.8 billion. Thank you, Tom, and good morning, everyone. As you know, there are a lot of moving pieces in these discussions with the networks, especially at CBS, where there is a linear agreement, vMVPD agreement and a Paramount Plus agreement, all of which are up later this year. Perry A. Sook has over 41 years of professional experience in the television and radio broadcasting industries, covering all facets of the business, including ownership and M&A, management, sales, on-air talent, and news. KTSM, an El Paso, Texas station owned by Nexstar, re-ran an article from the Texas Tribune exploring the effect of Hispanic identity on the Senatorial race that pitted Beto ORourke against Cruz. He founded Nexstar in 1996 with one local television station in Scranton, PA, and began building the foundation of what became one of the world's leading local marketing and content companies, leveraging localism to bring new services and value to consumers and advertisers across its traditional media, digital and mobile media platforms. In March, NewsNation VP of News Jennifer Lyons resigned amid concerns the channel might take a right-wing turn because of low ratings. NY 10036. It sounds like your reverse is going to be up about mid-single digit, and you just kind of went through what's going on, on the growth side. That's what's driving the buildout. And obviously, with things like LIV Golf and other programming expansions, we're hoping to create more value so that we can ultimately extract more value as we go. Hubbard Broadcasting owns the radio station that ran the Jason Lewis Show before Lewis became a congressman. And given the weighting of those numbers, we see, again, kind of a low single-digit decline year-over-year is what we're forecasting currently. Fourth quarter CapEx was $57.1 million or $56 million, excluding CapEx related to the CW. As such, we are opting to exclude transaction and onetime expenses from these figures. Mr. Sook was named the 2009 Broadcaster of the Year by Broadcasting and Cable (B&C) and was among the honorees inducted into the B&C Hall of Fame in 2014. As a percentage of net revenues, our total expenses declined given our focus on controlling expense growth and significant political revenue growth. Sook said this year when Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump square off in the November presidential election, Nexstar will earn about $100 million in political advertising revenue. I realized that there were 10,000 guys like me for every Walter Cronkite, Sook says. Nationwide and locally, Nexstar is involved in over 1,600 community initiatives each year donating thousands of hours and helping to raise millions of dollars for worthy causes. Mr. Sook was a principal of Superior Communications Group. And then what was your retrans revenue if you just exclude the CW, what was that percent change including the hit, unfortunately, for the blackouts? Fourth quarter total interest expense increased to $103.4 million from $70.2 million in the prior quarter due to the impact of increasing LIBOR and SOFR rates applicable to our floating rate debt. Outside of the huge Chicago-based cable network WGN America, most of its 196 stations are ABC, CBS, Fox, CW, and NBC, We have 5,400 journalists around the country who produce local newsmore than any other organization. In a 2015 article on the announcement that then-Senator Mikulski would receive the presidential medal of freedom, the Fox45 site included a transcript of Mikulskis full reaction from the floor of the Senate. Sook has just returned from eight days on the road, on business in California and Arizona. But not all of his travel is to major metros. And with regard to overall growth, again, if you look at our expectations, assuming no further blackouts in a quick resolution at low double digits, the bridge between low double digits and mid-teens would be increased attrition. That will be followed by Tom's operations review and Lee Ann's financial review, and then we'll open the call for questions from you. No spam, ever. Fourth quarter operating cash taxes were $53.1 million, which includes $65.3 million attributable to Nexstar, excluding CW and a $12.2 million benefit from the attributable tax deductible losses from our investment in the CW. To that end, on the cover of our earnings release and in the tables at the back of the release, you will be able to find selected financial metrics for Nexstar on a consolidated basis, for Nexstar, excluding the CW and also for the CW on a stand-alone basis. Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:NASDAQ:NXST) Q4 2020 Earnings Conference Call February 23, 2021 9:00 AM ETCompany ParticipantsJoseph Jaffoni - Investor RelationsPerry Sook - Founder,. NewsNation is also available across a wide range of streaming services including Sling, Hulu, YouTube TV, Vidgo, fubu TV, and DirecTV Stream. Mr. Sook previously spent five years with Cox Broadcasting, first in local sales in Pittsburgh, then at Telerep, Inc., as a National Account Executive. Emily Barratt, Renee Cassis, Meghan Buonocore, James Gwynn, Janice Garjian, Dolores Nolan 5. It was financed by a big capital investment firm that bought some stations from CBS but, Sook says, was without a management team or any business thesis as to how to operate. With no money to make acquisitions on his own, Sook got creative. Political Advertising Revenue 265.9 18.9 . 750 North St.Paul St. The one-hour program features market and geopolitical discussions with a rotating panel of influential voices including thought leaders, CEOs, policy makers and economists. So maybe you could just put a little more context. We firmly believe that we should control our own destiny with regard to the virtual MVPDs instead of allowing the network to negotiate on our behalf. Before I dive into my usual financial discussion, I wanted to take a minute to step back and discuss a few changes in our financial presentation that we've been foreshadowing. The CW generates revenue primarily from national television and digital advertising, distribution fees from affiliates and virtual MVPDs as well as some short-term continuing revenue from licensing content to an SVOD player. As you'll be able to read in our report, throughout 2022, we executed on several ESG initiatives, including eliminating our Class B and Class C shares, which cleared the way for our inclusion in the S&P 400 Index. Are your MVPDs kind of happy to pay you a higher affiliate fee for the CW now that you're pairing it with broadcast stations or any other kind of context you could put around that statement and whether or not that's been an incremental surprise or that was always part of the thinking when you bought the CW? Six people at the time reportedly said that NewsNation was becoming increasingly right-wing and conservative in its presentation. Nexstar's local TV advertising revenue, which represents approximately 70% of our total core TV ad revenues, excluding the CW, continues to meaningfully outperform national declining just 2% year-over-year despite significant inventory allocations towards political during the quarter. Extended our network affiliation agreements with ABC. As always, the detail is provided in our reconciling schedules in the back. SOOK, Perry A. BSC '80 Chairperson Southlake, TX. Perry A. Sook; Founder, Chairman & CEO; Nexstar Media Group, Inc. Thomas E. Carter; President & COO; Nexstar Media Group, Inc. Barton Evans Crockett; MD & Senior Internet Media Analyst;. . Consumers of news media rightfully want to know whos creating and supporting the information theyre watching and reading. CapEx was higher in the fourth quarter than prior quarters in 2022 as CapEx that was delayed in the first 3 quarters of the year due to supply chain disruptions was finally fulfilled in the fourth quarter. Prior to Nexstar, Mr. Sook was one of the principals of Superior Communication Group, Inc., which was sold in 1995 to Sinclair Broadcast Group. And I think when those things begin to line up, I think you'll see development accelerate. We've seen a number of RSN groups now kind of get into a period of change. But we're very bullish on the prospects and think these things are in the queue and on the way. Its a publicly-traded company on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol NXST. Nexstar operates traditional media as well as digital and mobile media platforms. The article includes a quote from a political scientist who says, though the statement is distasteful, they dont think it shows shes a virulent racist. Listen Bloomberg. And so I think you'll see affiliates continue to press the point that we should negotiate our own agreements and that no one else should be negotiating on behalf of our content. With FCC approval, the company will own 171 stations to. In addition, for purposes of our credit agreement and indentures, we have designated the CW as an unrestricted subsidiary, and it is not included for purposes of calculating our covenants. [53] The sale was completed on January 31, 2017. And important for us, the linear broadcast ratings increased 21% from Saturday to Sunday, so all of which is to say those numbers exceeded our expectations. Or there is still significant room to run on auto getting back to maybe a more normalized rate in that 2019 pre-COVID era? Bloomberg Surveillance: Early Edition with Anna Edwards, Matt Miller & Kailey Leinz live from London, Berlin and New York, bringing insight on global markets and the top business stories of the day. He serves on the Board of Directors of Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), the Board of the Broadcasters Foundation of America, and he is Chairman of The Ohio University Foundation Board of Trustees. 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