OPINION — Nexstar Media Group’s pending $6.2 billion acquisition of Tegna, a deal that would merge the nation’s largest and third-largest local-television station owners, has the support of President Trump and the approval of his Federal Communications Commission.
However, it is under fire from an unusually diverse collection of opponents, including liberal lawmakers, a group of state attorneys general, cable giant Comcast, DirecTV and, perhaps most surprisingly, the conservative news outlet Newsmax.
And now, Comcast is lobbying Republican attorneys general to join the opposition and coordinating directly with DirecTV and Newsmax.
