Perry Sook

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Perry A. Sook (born 1958) is an American media executive who founded Nexstar Media Group, one of the largest television and digital media corporations in the United States. He is chairman and CEO of Nexstar and in October 2025, the Nexstar board of directors extended Sook's contract as CEO through March 2029. Sook served as chairman of the joint board of directors of the National Association of Broadcasters from 2023 to 2025 and remains on its executive committee as immediate past chair. Sook founded Nexstar in 1996, with the acquisition of single local television station, WYOU in Scranton, Pennsylvania. In the decades since, the corporation has grown into the largest owner of television stations in the US, in addition to amassing additional media holdings such as The Hill, American television network The CW, and cable channel NewsNation (the latter relaunched from WGN America, which the company acquired in 2019). In 2003, Sook took Nexstar public after acquiring Quorum Broadcasting. He...

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