Nexstar owns a limited but important group of ABC affiliates around the U.S., and the exact lineup can shift over time with sales, swaps, and affiliation changes. Because of those changes, any single static list risks being incomplete or slightly out of date.

Key point

Nexstar is one of ABC’s major affiliate group owners, but not its largest; it owns and operates a few dozen ABC stations (including some on main channels and some on digital subchannels), spread across midsize and smaller markets rather than the biggest top‑10 DMAs.

How to get the current list

To see exactly which ABC affiliates Nexstar owns right now, you’ll want to cross‑check two up‑to‑date sources:

  1. Nexstar’s own station roster
    • Nexstar maintains a corporate “Stations” page listing all of its owned and operated outlets, including each station’s primary network (e.g., ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CW).
 * On that page, you can skim the “Network” column for “ABC” or look for stations whose subchannels carry ABC programming.
  1. A current ABC affiliate table
    • Updated affiliate lists (for example, large tables of ABC affiliates by city, callsign, and owner) let you see which entries list “Nexstar Media Group” as the owner.
 * Filtering that table for “Nexstar Media Group” in the owner column gives you the effective list of Nexstar‑owned ABC affiliates.

A simple example: those affiliate tables show ABC stations such as WTNH (New Haven–Hartford, CT), WGNO (New Orleans, LA), KTVX (Salt Lake City, UT), KMID (Midland–Odessa, TX), WBOY‑TV subchannel (Clarksburg, WV), and WTRF‑TV subchannel (Wheeling, WV) as being owned by Nexstar Media Group at the time of the latest updates. Those concrete cases illustrate the mix of full‑power primaries and subchannels Nexstar uses for its ABC presence.

Why there isn’t one simple “forever” list

Broadcast ownership and affiliation are moving targets:

  • Group owners buy and sell stations or whole clusters, especially around regulatory events or merger attempts.
  • ABC affiliations can move from one local station to another while the owner stays the same or changes.
  • Corporate pages and third‑party tables get updated on different schedules, so a list that was complete in 2024 can be missing changes made in 2025 or 2026.

Because of that, if you need a “latest news” angle (for example, who is currently pre‑empting a particular ABC show), you should always check both Nexstar’s station page and a fresh affiliate table rather than relying on any older “full list” screenshot or forum post.

Practical takeaway

  • Nexstar owns a defined set of ABC affiliates, mostly in small‑to‑midsize markets, including both primary ABC stations and ABC‑carrying subchannels.
  • The most reliable way to know which ones those are today is to:
    1. open Nexstar’s station list and note every station whose primary or subchannel network is ABC, and
    2. confirm those entries against a current ABC affiliate table filtered for “Nexstar Media Group” as owner.

Information gathered from public forums or data available on the internet and portrayed here.