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Nexstar names Rogers SVP and regional manager

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Tracey Rogers

Nexstar Media Group, Inc.  has announced the promotion of accomplished media executive Tracey Rogers to senior vice president and regional manager for its broadcasting division, overseeing Nexstar television stations and digital operations in multiple markets across the country.  Rogers will begin her duties on Sept. 5, and be based at the company’s headquarters in Irving, Texas.  She will report to Andrew Alford, president of Nexstar’s broadcasting division.

Rogers has served as vice president and general manager of WKRN-TV (ABC), the Nexstar television station serving Nashville, Tennessee (DMA# 27), since May 2017.  Under her leadership, the television station expanded its midday local newscast to a full hour and developed plans to launch a new hour-long local newscast at 3 p.m. CT on Sept. 11.

During the course of her nearly 35-year career in broadcasting, Rogers served as general manager at WMC-TV (NBC) in Memphis, Tennessee (DMA #52) from 2014 to 2017, and at KAIT-TV (ABC), in Jonesboro, Arkansas (DMA #183), from 2011 to 2014. Prior to that, she served as news director at WMC-TV (NBC) in Memphis, Tennessee (DMA # 52), WAFF-TV (NBC), in Huntsville, Alabama (DMA # 81), and WPSD-TV (NBC) in Paducah, Kentucky (DMA #92).

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