NBC and Nexstar Square Off - Restrictions Applied (Patreon)

A very interesting memo was sent out to NBC employees involving Nexstar's NBC affiliate stations.

The memo was sent on Friday and starting at 2PM that day, NBC told the staff to "not use content on air or online from" from the Nexstar stations.

This is the memo sent yto the staff at NBC Bay Area.

Team,

 Starting at 2pm today and moving forward, we may not use content on air or online from these stations listed below.  This includes anything you’ve downloaded from one of these stations via News Channel’s Orbit but haven’t aired yet. Additionally, if we have footage from these stations in our archive, we need to be careful not to re-air the video. There are very few exceptions. For instance, if the video was inserted into one of our own local packages that aired previously then it is likely to be ok.  If you are unclear about a piece of video – see a manager or call News Channel and ask. It may be hard to determine the origin of a piece of video but we do need to try. Finally, for Telemundo – video that comes in on Media Beach from any of these markets is OK to use, but it cannot be used on NBC Bay Area.

Thanks,
Steph

  WFLA-TV
Tampa-St. Petersburgh-SarasotaFL

KXAN-TV
Austi TX

WCMH-TV
Columbus. OH

WOOD-TV
Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo-Battle Creek MI

WAVY-TV
Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport VA

KFOR-TV
Oklahoma City OK

KSEE
Fresno-Visalia CA

KARK-TV
Little Rock-Pine Bluff
AR

WBRE-TV
Wilkes Barre-Scranton-Hazleton PA

WDTN
Dayton OH

WHO-DT
Des Moines-Ames IA

KSNW
Wichita-Hutchinson KS

KVEO-TV
Brownsville-Harlingen-Weslaco-McAllen TX

WSAV-TV
Savannah GA

WCBD-TV
Charleston SC

KTSM-TV
El Paso-Las Cruces TX

KTAL-TV
Shreveport LA

WVLA
Baton Rouge LA

KNWA-TV
Rogers-Ft. Smith-Fayetteville AR

KETK-TV
Tyler-Longview-Jacksonville(Lufkin-Nacogdoches) TX

WWLP
Springfield-Holyoke MA

KGET-TV
Bakersfield CA

KAMR-TV
Amarillo TX

KSNT
Topeka KS

KTVE
El Dorado (AR)/Monroe LA

KFDX-TV
Wichita Falls-Lawton TX

KSNF
Joplin-Pittsburg MO

WTWO
Terre Haute IN

WBGH-CA
Binghamton NY

KRBC-TV
Abilene-Sweetwater TX

WBOY-TV
Clarksburg-Weston WV

WETM-TV
Elmira (Corning) NY

KSAN-TV
San Angelo TX

 Stephanie Adrouny
VP of News

NBC News Channel also sent out an advisory to their people, again telling them not to use any video from the Nexstar NBC affiliates.

No one is quite sure what the beef is about, but I think we will be hearing more on this in the near future.