Nexstar Station Cancels Newscast and Replaces in with a Podcast (Patreon)

Many Nexstar employees at WDCW AKA DC. News Now, are wondering what is going on at the station?

"DC News Now still hasn’t filled the news director spot since Ben Dobson left for PIXII, and people have definitely noticed the gap in leadership," said one station employee to FTVLive.

Nexstar is in the process of trying to buy the Tegna stations, and that would of course include Tegna's WUSA.

Most believe that WUSA and DC News Now will be merged into one and that might be playing into Nexstar slow walking the ND job at DC News Now.

"It feels like one of those inside-TV shakeups that could quietly turn into something bigger," said a Nexstar insider.

In the meantime, according to an internal memo sent to the DC News Now staff, it appears that the station has basically canceled the Noon newscast and replaced it with a video podcast.

Here is the memo that went out and was obtained by FTVLive.