account executive

producer

master control operator

production assistant

journalist

Nexstar Media Group, Inc.

What is the best part of working at the company?
“The best part of working at Nexstar is the opportunity to build relationships with a wide variety of business owners and learn about their industries and operations. I enjoy understanding each business’s unique challenges and goals, then helping identify the right solutions that ultimately improve the customer experience and support business growth.

What I value most is the ability to combine relationship-building, problem-solving, and customer service in a meaningful way. Being able to contribute to a company that focuses on helping businesses succeed while delivering value to customers is both rewarding and motivating to me.”

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
“One of the more challenging aspects of working at the company has been situations where management styles felt overly micromanaged and where account and lead distribution did not always seem balanced among Account Managers.

However, I’ve learned how to remain professional, stay focused on performance, and adapt positively in those environments. Those experiences have also strengthened my communication, problem-solving, and leadership skills, and reinforced the importance of fairness, transparency, and team support in management.”

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
“I have worked at several television stations, and in my experience, the work environment and culture can vary greatly depending on the local leadership and management team. Nexstar’s leadership, especially the CEO, has consistently communicated strong values around culture, teamwork, and performance, and I have experienced positive environments at some stations where those values were reflected well.

However, at the last Nexstar station where I worked, my experience was different. I did not feel the culture aligned with what I had experienced at previous offices, particularly in regard to middle management and overall workplace atmosphere. That said, I understand that every location operates differently, and I try to focus on professionalism, collaboration, and maintaining a positive attitude regardless of the environment.

Those experiences have also helped shape my own leadership approach and reinforced how important strong communication, fairness, accountability, and employee support are in creating a healthy workplace culture.”

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
I have had different positions, so your day-to-day depends on your position.

I could write a 10 page dissertation on why working at Nexstar would be the worst experience of your life but seeing as plenty of people have left similar reviews, I’ll hope you can take the hint and avoid working for this company at all costs. It would genuinely be better to struggle financially than to work for such self righteous horrible people who do not care about you at all. 
Management will demand things of you that you were never taught, and when you ask for an explanation, it will be YOUR fault and they will insist that you were trained on it. 
If you call out for a family emergency they will ask you if the emergency can “resolve itself” before the end of the day so that you can come into work... YES, that really happened. 
Your job will be 75% defending yourself/explaining why you aren’t wrong about something, and 25% getting your actual tasks done. 
Want to take up something with HR? Too bad! THERE IS NO HR!!!! Try calling and asking to speak to someone in HR and see what kind of run-around you get. 

I NEVER felt like management or this company was on my side or wanted me to succeed and after two opportunities for pay raise passed without one, I realized I would not be making enough money to live off. 
How this company got so “big” is a mystery to me and I don’t see them sustaining this or lasting very long, lots of people left my location in the past 6 months. 
If you are management or higher up in this company & you read this, please know that you treated me so poorly that I do not wish this experience on ANYONE and I will always tell people how horrible you are. 

This is one of the worst places to work for. I have never seen a company so unorganized and shady. I thought it was just the location I worked for but it's like this company wide especially if you're an hourly associate. I never been associated with a company that makes you feel so disconnected from the company. A company where your opinion does not matter. This is the type of company that thinks Corporate is always right. If you're an hourly employee you're are considered to be just a number or FTE /body. The things this company does is ridiculously unethical. It seems like all this company is worried about is getting their corporate bonuses no matter how it affects the regular unimportant employees that makes the sacrifices to make it happen. No support or appreciation from corporate or anything. The pay really sucks. You have to have 2 jobs if you're looking to feed your family and make a honest living. I never received an evaluation of anything since I have been here. I don't have a job description or seen one. I haven't seen any kind of competency or anything. I really do not know what are my responsibilities are at this company. I feel like I'm riding on an airplane without a pilot. We haven't had a employee meeting or anything. How do you operate a company without meeting or getting to know the associates that run your company corporate support? No handbook, No meetings, No associate appreciation, Lowest paid in the company (Facts), Treated as outsiders and no real direction or visions as a company. No wonder it's said we are the worst area in the company. This company has a lot of work to do from top to bottom.

Unless Nexstar improves, I wouldn't recommend anyone work here. I - and many of my colleagues - are overworked and incredibly underpaid. People who have worked here for 2+ years have still not received raises they were supposed to get after year 1.
Overtime is also not allowed, which means underperforming employees can do the bare minimum for 8 hours and clock out without completing all their work for the day.
Management refuses to enact any sort of corrective action for employees not pulling their weight, leaving others in the newsroom (reporters and production) to pick up the slack. Even employees who have broken incredibly expensive equipment due to sheer carelessness have remained employed. It may be a starter market, but employees are not given any constructive feedback or any real way of knowing how to improve before their contracts go up. I rarely feel heard when bringing up a workplace/newsroom issue to management.
I love the job itself and most of my coworkers are great, but the ones who are not stick out like a sore thumb and make work harder for everyone else with no consequences.
It's easy to get hired and with current management, there's next to no chance you'll be fired for poor performance. If you're looking for a job where you can consistently underperform without reprimand - or if you're looking for a place where you can consistently overperform without reward or appreciation - this is the place for you. 

Nexstar Media Group's operation in Elmira, NY, has been an overwhelmingly negative experience. Their so-called "local coverage" barely touches on relevant issues affecting our community. Instead, we get recycled, generic content that doesn't serve the people of Elmira. It’s clear that profit is prioritized over meaningful journalism or local engagement.

In addition to poor reporting and outdated production quality, Nexstar's employment practices are concerning. The pay is low, especially considering the demands and responsibilities of the role. Their contracts include non-compete agreements that restrict career growth, and they impose heavy penalties in the form of liquidation damages for buyouts. These practices create an environment where talented employees are either trapped or forced to leave the industry.

Their digital platforms are clunky and filled with disruptive ads, making it difficult to access even the simplest information. It's evident that Nexstar is more interested in exploiting both employees and viewers for profit, rather than fostering an environment of quality journalism and fair treatment.

Until Nexstar improves their approach to local news, raises compensation, and addresses their unethical employment practices, I would recommend looking for other sources of information and work opportunities.

Elmira deserves better.


If you're fresh out of college, then take a job here. You will get the experience you need to transfer to another station at higher pay. That is really the only good thing about working for this company.

Roughly a dozen members of the news staff have left since the beginning of the year and gone on to higher-paying jobs, some of which are in smaller markets. The majority of those jobs have still yet to be filled, creating more work for the same very low pay for those who remain.

In the almost three years since I started here I, and to my knowledge anyone else, have not seen a single raise. This company pays LESS THAN HALF the national average across all of its newsroom jobs.

Be prepared to be taken advantage of, you will be asked to change your schedule at a moments notice, work mandatory overtime. Some of this just comes naturally from the job, but most of it is due to gross negligence on the part of upper management. You will also be asked to do things that are not in your contact/job description, don't.

This is a decent company to start your career in the news with, what you don't get in compensation you will get in valuable experience. If you're new, I would recommend working here, otherwise, stay away.

Try to hire Reputation Defender on this one, you guys. 

I was hired right out of college for the Producer position. They had me try to produce two hours of the morning newscast all by myself with very little time taken for training. To explain this, it was all about "next week will be training the other guy so you will be on your own". I had moved to Peoria because I was happy and excited to start the new job. Yippee, right? I didn't know the area that well, or the news happening there. I tried to learn about the news going on in Peoria... But when would I have the time, when I have to adjust my sleep schedule so that I have to wake up at 11 PM to go there at midnight. It was a sink or swim kind of thing. The senior producer wasn't helpful when I had questions about missing a minuscule detail on the rundown. He could've just told me the answer, to my question, but no he was like "you should know, look at your checklist". I looked at my checklist, and everything looked fine to me. They wanted me to print everything 30 minutes before each show. It was a race (and keep in mind I was still adjusting to the sleep schedule). I feel like if I had a team of producers working with me to do what I was doing, I would have succeeded. 

I think they hire students right out of college who don't know what they're getting into because Nexstar is cheap. 

Pros:
* People are nice.
* Managers tend to look out for subordinates.
* Benefits are decent.
* Stories are fun.

Cons:
* Pay is low contrasted with the amount of work demanded from you. 
* Nexstar is very chintzy with overtime.
* Management has been at this place for years, which results in them being set in their ways.
* Because Nexstar is stingy, equipment is often older, falling apart, or not working. For example, the transmission in my car went out while driving back from a live shot. This vehicle year and model is notorious for having mechanical issues. You would think the most sound thing to do is retire the vehicle early and get new different ones. Nope. That vehicle was taken in, transmission replaced and put back in service, and it's none the better. Not long after, another vehicle (same year, make, and model) went out with the same issue. Same response.

Other issues I have are how the file sharing systems are organized. I've been with this company station for almost a year, and it is still a maze to run through. An organization, with as many resources at its disposal, still can't figure out how to streamline and make things more efficient. How about that? I will never understand why Nexstar chooses to throw so much money and attention at NewNation and not at the local stations.

It's a multi billion dollar company, they don't care about you and you are replaceable. You're going to to see new faces every month. Turn over is unreal. Personally I worked in creative services, arguably and apparently the least cared about department of broadcast news. I learned quick that what ever I made didn't matter to anyone but me so I decided to make stuff I was proud of. With no budget for promo and minimal guidance or organization I was nominated for an Emmy every year I worked for this company. I took it serious. What I made, mattered to me and that's all you could get out of it. Being in the union helped with benefits and pension but I couldn't afford to stay long enough for pension to matter. Three years, multiple big award nominations, no raise, started and left with entry level salary. Really all you need to know is that they'll keep piling on responsibility and never compensate you for it. That's Nexstar, and feel free to look up their public gains, stocks, and revenue.

In short, this was a solid first job out of college. However, I do not see how anyone in the midst of their career or with a family to support could realistically work here.

Days, though quick-paced due to breaking news, were lengthy in terms of hours worked. If you didn't come in early before your shift to help with work, there was little chance of being able to leave right when your shift ended due to the amount of things to cover. Most of the time, I felt like a doctor on-call with my manager saying I needed to be able to come in if someone called out sick. It's my right to have two days off each week, but I felt like if I denied the mandatory OT, then my job security would be in jeopardy.
 
Coworkers were fun and friendly, but we were understaffed and underpaid. A 16 cent raise after a year of hard work is a slap in the face. You'd make more going back to your old high school summer job.

Finally, there was no room for advancement whatsoever, which was why I left.

Despite the flaws, this is a good job coming out of school. You learn a lot in many aspects of media production and you can say you worked at an ABC, NBC, etc.-affiliated station.

So, get in, learn for a year or two, then move on.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Account executive 10 salaries reported	$81,693 per year
Producer 4 salaries reported	$83,500 per year
Master control operator 3 salaries reported	$19.55 per hour
Production assistant 2 salaries reported	$15.00 per hour
Journalist 3 salaries reported	$15.00 per hour

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