Better Health for All

Nexstar Media Group's principal goods and services are operating television stations and digital media platforms, which do not inherently have direct positive or negative health impacts, leading to a neutral score for health impact. There is no evidence of revenue generated from products or activities with negative health outcomes. The company's charitable foundation makes approximately $350,000 in annual donations to various non-profit organizations, some of which address health-related causes such as diabetes research, healthcare workforce development, free medical care for underserved populations, suicide prevention, and heart health initiatives.

However, these are indirect contributions through philanthropy rather than direct health-related products or services from the company's principal operations. While a Nexstar station proposed a nearly $1 million opioid messaging campaign, this is a local initiative and does not represent a significant shift in the overall health impact of the company's vast media portfolio. There is no evidence of Nexstar's own health-related R&D, direct health products/services, or specific health externalities from its media operations. The company does not collect or manage health-related data, nor does it hold healthcare-related patents or conduct clinical trials. Its operations are not directly relevant to healthcare workforce development, preventative health measures, or global health crisis response in a way that would move these KPIs beyond a neutral score.

Fair Money & Economic Opportunity

Nexstar Media Group is a media company, and its core business does not involve lending, insuring, moving, or storing money for consumers. Therefore, most KPIs related to direct financial services are not applicable and score 0. The company's charitable foundation awards approximately $350,000 in grants each year.

With annual donations of approximately $350,000 and a reported pre-tax profit of $3.5 billion in 2023, this represents less than 1% of profits reinvested in community finance. The company offers an Employee Assistance Program that provides employees with access to legal/financial consultation. Nexstar, in partnership with WealthWave, developed a Financial Literacy Quiz (FLQ) to measure financial knowledge gaps, and the aggregated data from this quiz will be made publicly available quarterly as the Financial Literacy Index. However, this is a basic information offering without structured programs or outreach to customers. The company provides free data export and limited write APIs for developers, and the Financial Literacy Index data will be publicly available.

Fair Pay & Worker Respect

62% of Nexstar workers earn less than a living wage for their metro area for a single person without children.

The CEO to median employee pay ratio was 517:1 in the 2024 fiscal year. Employee reviews on Indeed.com show an overall rating of 2.6 out of 5 (52%) and a culture rating of 2.4 out of 5 (48%). On Glassdoor, 32% of employees would recommend working at Nexstar to a friend. Voluntary employee turnover is repeatedly mentioned as high in multiple reviews, with one review stating it is around 40-50%. The company has two employment-related violation records since 2000, including a $31,000,000 benefit plan administrator violation in 2012 and a $7,500 wage and hour violation in 2021. Additionally, the NLRB found Nexstar violated the National Labor Relations Act by refusing to bargain with NABET-CWA in 2024 and by refusing to provide information to the NewsGuild of New York during contract negotiations. 55% of survey respondents reported delaying necessary medical care due to low wages.

Fair Trade & Ethical Sourcing

No specific, quantitative data was provided across any of the articles for the KPIs related to Fair Trade & Ethical Sourcing.

Information regarding fair trade certification share, audit frequency for suppliers, forced or child labor incidents, traceability coverage, remediation speed, ethical clause coverage in supplier contracts, materials risk index, or supplier diversity spend was not available.

Honest & Fair Business

Nexstar maintains a whistleblower hotline, but there is no evidence of independent investigation processes.

The company has a Sustainalytics ESG controversy score of 16.4, indicating a low risk. 90% of its board members are independent. Nexstar has strict policies prohibiting insider trading and ensuring compliance with antitrust laws, with annual employee review and certification of its Business Conduct Policy and annual employee ethics training. The company's Code of Business Conduct covers all employees and subsidiaries, detailing policies on conflicts of interest, financial reporting, and gifts. Independent ESG ratings from Sustainalytics and awards for journalistic integrity are cited as evidence of third-party verification, but the extent of this verification for ethical claims is not specified.

No War, No Weapons

Nexstar Media Group operates primarily in television broadcasting and digital media.

The provided articles do not contain any evidence of the company being involved in arms manufacturing, military contracts, or conflict facilitation. There is no information regarding revenue from defense contracts, dual-use technologies with military applications, sales to embargoed regimes, or investments in peacebuilding or disarmament initiatives. Similarly, there is no evidence related to conflict divestment policies, board oversight of defense activities, export controls, lobbying on arms control, humanitarian procurement, human rights due diligence in conflict areas, Arms Trade Treaty compliance, AI military safeguards, UN Guiding Principles alignment, dual-use item screening, surveillance contracts, ethical red lines concerning weapons, exposure to controversial weapons, war-risk audits, conflict partner reviews, defense divestment, conflict minerals, peace technology investment, procurement from conflict zones, or compliance with ethical red lines related to conflict. Therefore, all KPIs are omitted due to a lack of specific, concrete data points in the provided evidence.

Planet-Friendly Business

Nexstar Media Group received a Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture (NAL) from the FCC for alleged violations of the Communications Act and FCC rules related to Mission television station WPIX, New York, New York.

The company states that its Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions are immaterial based on preliminary analysis for 2022, 2023, and 2024, but does not provide specific quantitative emission figures. Nexstar has implemented a companywide e-waste recycling program and disposes of fluorescent lighting in an environmentally friendly manner. The company is also replacing transmission equipment with more efficient solid-state equipment and studio lighting with energy-saving LED lighting. Nexstar intends to comply with SEC rules and California's environmental disclosure laws, if adopted.

Safe & Smart Tech

The company allows users to opt-out of direct marketing, modify or delete account information, and unsubscribe from communications, with specific data access and deletion capabilities described.

For regulatory compliance, the company received 9,932,999 CCPA requests and complied with all of them, with an average response time of 2 days for Access, Correct, and Delete requests.

Zero Waste & Sustainable Products

The company has implemented six waste reduction initiatives, including consolidating offices, reducing its data center footprint by one-third in 2024, replacing tube-based transmission equipment with more efficient solid-state equipment, upgrading studio lighting to energy-saving LED lighting, and operating a companywide e-waste recycling program.

The company also disposes of fluorescent lighting environmentally. For 2023, no regulatory actions, violations, fines, or compliance issues related to waste disposal were mentioned in the ESG report.