Outlet track record
CBS17 (Nexstar)
U.S. center-right (corporate parent)
CBS17 (WNCN) is a Nexstar-owned CBS affiliate serving the Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina market. Its day-to-day local newscasts follow conventional local TV journalism — covering anti-Trump protests, SNAP funding cuts, and administration polling in a factual tone — but its corporate parent, Nexstar, has pursued a strategy notably accommodating to the Trump administration's broadcast deregulation agenda. The outlet's local coverage is broadly neutral, while Nexstar's corporate posture has leaned supportive of the administration.
Owned byNexstar Media Group, Inc. — publicly traded (NASDAQ: NXST), headquartered in Irving, Texas; the largest owner of local broadcast TV stations in the United States
LeaningU.S. center-right (corporate parent)
On the administrationmixed
2average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun