California attorney general asks judge to block Nexstar-Tegna merger

Nexstar, which owns KTLA-TV Channel 5 in Los Angeles, this week received FCC approval to grow to 265 stations. (Gary Coronado/Los Angeles Times) California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta is asking a judge to unravel Nexstar Media Group's $6.2-billion acquisition of rival TV station owner Tegna — the latest in a flurry of merger twists. Nexstar announced late Thursday that it had consummated the Tegna takeover — despite a lawsuit that Bonta and seven other Democratic state attorneys general had filed in federal cour ...