LAFAYETTE, La. (KPEL News) — The federal government approved it. Nexstar closed it. And eight states and DirecTV sued to kill it.
All on the same day.
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Nexstar Media Group announced it closed its $6.2 billion acquisition of Tegna on March 19, 2026, after receiving sign-off from both the Department of Justice and the FCC. Hours later, eight state attorneys general and DirecTV filed separate federal lawsuits seeking to block the deal. The transaction makes Nexstar, already the largest local TV station owner in the country, significantly larger, absorbing Tegna’s roughly 64 stations and pushing its total footprint to nearly 265 stations reaching about 60% of U.S. television households by the FCC’s own accounting.
KLFY News 10 has been a Nexstar station since 2016, when Nexstar bought Media General. Channel 10 is Lafayette’s oldest television station and the CBS affiliate serving eight Acadiana parishes. It is not a Tegna property, so nothing changes at KLFY in terms of day-to-day operations. The station is simply now part of a much larger company that is immediately facing federal court battles over whether it should exist in its current form…