Nexstar Media Group and its cable news channel NewsNation continue the growth of adding live news programming and moving away from the WGN America era of entertainment programming the previous weekend of May 4th the network added a block of news for weekends from Saturdays and Sundays from 1-4pm ET. This replaces 3 hours of the drama Blue Bloods, the network's lone entertainment program as of earlier this year. A weekend block of "News Nation Now" runs from 1-4pmET with anchor Anna Kooiman in New York City.
This is another latest extension of news programming on weekends for the network, back on April 13, it added a weekend version of "News Nation" airing Saturdays 10am -1pmet and Sundays 11am -1pm ET. Earlier this year, a weekend version of "Morning in America" and a Sunday morning talk show "The Hill on Sunday" were added. The network replaced religious infomercials and scripted comedy and dramas that were airing on the weekend pre 7pm ET slots. "News Nation Prime" was the only news program on weekends prior.
Kooiman anchored the launch of that and now has been shifted to "Now" with Laura Ingle taking over the "Live" slots.
🚨Programming Alert 🚨
— Laura Ingle (@lauraingle) May 5, 2024
Join me today as I anchor #NewsNationLive from 11a-1pm EST on America’s fastest-growing national cable news network @NewsNation - we kicked off our new weekend lineup with #NewsNationLive 10a-1p this Saturday, followed by #NewsNationNow 1-4pm EST with… pic.twitter.com/vErVDMWMkv
All this programming also shows a shift of the network having a majority of it's output on weekends from New York City, instead of home base Chicago. Chicago is still home to "Prime" on weekends. Weekday programming from Chicago is still going from 6AMET to 3pm ET, as much of the afternoons and evenings shifted to New York and D.C modeling other cable news channels.
The current weekend line up as of May 5, 2024 is
Saturdays (all times Eastern)
7-10am Morning in America
10-1pm News Nation Live
1-4pm News Nation Now
4-7pm Blue Bloods
7-10pm NewsNation Prime
10pm-7am Weeknight programming encores, specials, NewsNation Prime replay
Sundays (all times Eastern)
7-10am Morning in America
10-11am The Hill Sunday
11-1pm News Nation Live
1-4pm News Nation Now
4-7pm Blue Bloods
7-10pm NewsNation Prime
10pm-6am Weeknight programming encores, specials, NewsNation Prime replay
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