Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (NXST)
Television station group, 12,832 employees. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 27, 2026. Ranked 3 of the 28 Communication Services companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
32%
End of 2028
62%
Employees, annual report
12,832
Leading staffing pattern
Radio and Television Broadcasting Stations
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now32%
- End of 202755%
- End of 202862%
- End of 203064%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 36%
- Becomes checking a model's work 49%
- Handed over with lighter checks 13%
Nexstar states 12,832 employees at December 31, 2025, 11,693 full-time and 1,139 part-time, with about 6,000 journalists and 1,600 salespeople across its stations, so the station group takes nine tenths and its national networks the rest by description (c).
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 32% now, 55% at the end of 2027, 62% at the end of 2028, 64% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 64% desk work, 22% people work and 14% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 36% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 49% becomes checking a model's work and 13% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
12,832 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing describes television stations in U.S. markets from small to large to national; no count by country is stated.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we had a total of 12,832 employees, comprised of 11,693 full-time and 1,139 part-time employees.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Radio and Television Broadcasting Stations | 90% | The filing describes a station group employing approximately 6,000 journalists and 1,600 salespeople across its local markets, which takes nine tenths by description (c), broadcasting stations being read for a station group as Comcast's anchor settled. |
| Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers | 10% | The CW network, NewsNation and the digital businesses have no counts of their own in the filing and take a tenth by description (c). |
What the filing says about the workforce: 11,693 full-time and 1,139 part-time employees (9% part-time); 1,869 covered by collective bargaining agreements (15%); approximately 6,000 journalists and 1,600 salespeople; voluntary retention about 83%.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Radio and Television Broadcasting Stations, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Fox Corporation (FOXA, 10,550 employees)30% now, 64% by 2028
- Gray Media, Inc. (GTN, 9,582 employees)33% now, 62% by 2028
- iHeartMedia, Inc. (IHRT, 9,550 employees)31% now, 63% by 2028
- Sinclair, Inc. (SBGI, 7,100 employees)33% now, 62% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
0 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in no sentence.
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20230median 1
- Fiscal 20240median 4
- Fiscal 20250median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 11,693 | 2026-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 11,773 | 2025-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 11,877 | 2024-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 11,666 | 2023-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 11,160 | 2022-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 11,086 | 2021-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 13,589 | 2020-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 8,249 | 2019-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 8,360 | 2018-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 4,006 | 2017-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 3,915 | 2016-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 3,464 | 2015-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 3,222 | 2014-03-03 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 2,411 | 2013-03-15 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 2,230 | 2012-03-15 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 2,111 | 2011-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 2,114 | 2010-03-15 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 2,258 | 2009-03-31 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 2,265 | 2008-03-11 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 2,214 | 2007-03-14 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 2,164 | 2006-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 2,072 | 2005-03-15 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 1,889 | 2004-03-31 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The universe's count was the full-time 11,693; the filing states 12,832 in all (rule 2).
- The national networks and digital businesses have no counts; their share is by description (c).
- The U.S. share rests on the filing's description of its U.S. markets, not a stated count.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001193125-26-078361, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of Nexstar Media Group, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 32% now and 62% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Nexstar Media Group, Inc.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Nexstar Media Group, Inc. employ?
- 12,832 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states. About 100% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Nexstar Media Group, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Radio and Television Broadcasting Stations; by those patterns the work is about 64% desk work, 22% people work and 14% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Nexstar Media Group, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 0 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 0 and 0 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 19, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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