Media Monopoly Gets Worse in San Angelo

SAN ANGELO, TX — Nexstar Media Group, which already owned four TV stations in San Angelo and Abilene, added Fox West Texas to its media monopoly Tuesday as part of a $6.2 billion purchase of TEGNA Inc.

According to a press release, the merger between the two corporate giants will establish the country’s largest local broadcasting company, combining 265 television stations across 44 states and Washington, D.C. 

The new network will reportedly have the ability to reach nearly 80% of U.S. households.

“We believe this deal will strengthen our ability to challenge the dominance of Big Tech and legacy Big Media,” said Albert Gutierrez, the vice president and general manager of KLST, KSAN, KTAB and KRBC, somehow not realizing that his company is part of the legacy Big Media that is destroying journalism.

We saw what happened to the San Angelo Standard-Times when it was purchased by Gannett, the media behemoth that owns more newspapers than any company in the country.

The Standard-Times died as a hometown paper — there are two employees left there — and it became merely an extension of its liberal mothership, USA Today.

Our local TV stations have their own liberal content pumped in by larger sister stations and the Associated Press. 

Now, KSAN, KLST and Fox West Texas will all be under the same umbrella, drying up our media landscape even further.

With the exception of San Angelo LIVE!, which is locally owned, the only other major media outlets in town are owned by corporate monopolies, and it just got a little worse with Tuesday's announcement.

The purchase is expected to close in the second half of 2026, pending approval from regulators and shareholders.