The Nexstar Broadcasting family will soon be starting a new chapter and our parent company’s leader has just been honored for his vision to inform and serve our community, and many others across the country.

 

In Washington, D.C., Wednesday evening, The Media Institute honored Nexstar Broadcasting Chairman, President and CEO Perry Sook. 

 

Sook was given the American Horizon Award, recognizing his leadership promoting the vitality and independence of American media.

 

Sook started Nexstar Broadcasting with just one television station in 1996 and twenty years later, there are more than 100 stations nationwide. 

 

“We think that free press is a fabric of this country, and is what has made this country great,” Sook said. “There’s not a state-run network and there are diversities of views. That’s why this award is particularly important I think; both honoring and humbling… that is really supporting and rewarding the work that our journalists do in our company everyday.”