Nexstar Media Inc. Names Three Veteran Broadcasters as Vice President and General Manager of Media Operations in Salt Lake City, Buffalo, Green Bay and Marquette

Nexstar Media Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: NXST), today announced that it has named three experienced broadcast leaders to oversee the company’s media operations in Salt Lake City, UT, Buffalo, NY, Green Bay, WI, and Marquette, MI.

Mark Danielson will lead KTVX-TV (ABC), KUCW-TV (CW), MTVX-TV (MeTV), and ABC4.com in Salt Lake City, UT (DMA #29). He will begin his new duties on June 27, and report to Matthew Rosenfeld, Senior Vice President and Regional Manager for the broadcasting division of Nexstar Media Inc. Joe Abouzeid will take responsibility for overseeing WIVB-TV (CBS), WNLO-TV (CW), and wivb.com, serving Buffalo, NY (DMA #52). He will begin his new duties on June 13, and report to Theresa Underwood, Senior Vice President and Regional Director for the broadcasting division of Nexstar Media Inc. Judson Beck will be responsible for Nexstar’s broadcasting and digital operations in Green Bay, WI (DMA #68), and Marquette, MI (DMA #182), including respectively, WFRV-TV (CBS) and WeAreGreenBay.com, and WJMN-TV (IND) and UPmatters.com. Mr. Beck will begin his duties on May 31, and report to Traci Wilkinson, Senior Vice President and Regional Manager for the broadcasting division of Nexstar Media Inc.

Collectively, Mr. Danielson, Mr. Abouzeid, and Mr. Beck have more than 90 years of leadership experience in all aspects of broadcasting, including local news, production, sales, digital content generation and community involvement. Each has consistently demonstrated the ability to grow revenue and profitability by identifying new streams of revenue, cultivating new business, developing a variety of innovative cross-platform solutions for advertisers and marketers, creating sponsorship opportunities, and deepening the ties to the communities in which they have worked.

Mr. Danielson is returning to Salt Lake City, where he worked in a variety of news, sales, and production positions early in his career, including at KTVX-TV from 1990 to 1991. In addition, Mr. Danielson earned his degree in mass communication from the University of Utah. For the past ten years, Mr. Danielson has served as the Vice President and General Manager of KEYT-TV (ABC/CBS), KKFX-CD (FOX) and KSBB-CD (24- hour news/MyNet), in Santa Barbara, CA (DMA #122), growing the group from one station when he started in 2012, to four. Mr. Danielson was responsible for significantly increasing the group’s ratings, revenue and profitability. During his tenure, Mr. Danielson and his team more than doubled the hours of weekly local news offered by the group, launched a total of ten new local newscasts, and created the area’s first 24-hour local news channel. He also spearheaded KSBB’s conversion to ATSC 3.0, NextGen TV, becoming the first television station on the West Coast to do so.