Can They Really Unscramble the Egg? Newsmax Locks Arms with Cable, DIRECTV in Challenging Closed Nexstar-TEGNA Merger

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Merger: Newsmax and six state cable broadband associations asked a federal appeals court on Saturday, March 21 to hit pause on Nexstar Media Group’s $6.2 billion acquisition of TEGNA after the FCC approved the deal. DIRECTV joined on its own as an intervenor. Can this legal gambit really unscramble the egg? The deal, approved March 19 by the FCC’s Media Bureau and DOJ, closed later that day, meaning TEGNA shareholders received their $22 in cash per share presumably.

But Newsmax et al. think the deal is not really closed, closed. ** (More after paywall)**

Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy

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