---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-258316"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NXST"
cik: "0001142417"
company_name: "NEXSTAR MEDIA GROUP, INC."
filed_at: "2025-10-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T01:14:41.396233+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Nexstar extends CEO Perry Sook via amended agreement through March 2029

## Summary
- Base salary set at $3M; target annual bonus of 200% of base salary.
- Severance on Qualifying Termination: 200% of base + 200% of target bonus + $31,000.
- Equity awards fully vest on termination (performance at greater of target/actual).
- CEO reimbursed up to $500,000 for personal aircraft use during the term.
- Press release highlights Sook's role in over 40 acquisitions, including proposed TEGNA deal.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-258316
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NXST
- cik: 0001142417
- company_name: NEXSTAR MEDIA GROUP, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-10-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1142417/000119312525258316/0001193125-25-258316-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1142417/000119312525258316/nxst-20251028.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-258316.txt

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