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CBS17 (WNCN, Nexstar)
U.S. center
CBS17 (WNCN, channel 17) is a CBS affiliate serving Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, owned by Nexstar Media Group. Its coverage centers on local North Carolina news alongside CBS national programming, with no pronounced ideological lean. Its posture toward the Trump administration is largely neutral and consistent with mainstream local TV news, though parent company Nexstar has cultivated ties with Trump-aligned lobbyists while seeking federal approval for a major corporate merger.
Owned byNexstar Media Group, Inc. (publicly traded, NASDAQ: NXST), the largest local TV broadcasting company in the United States by station count
LeaningU.S. center
On the administrationmostly neutral
3average bias score across 2 stories
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun