WGN America has a program debuting on Tuesday night, News Nation, which promises to deliver news without opinion or bias.
The newscast by Nexstar Media Group, which will air from 8 p.m.-11 p.m. every weeknight with additional weekend programming, aims to give viewers who are not interested in the partisan prime-time lineups of cable news networks a fact-driven alternative propped up by 5,400 reporters stationed across more than a 100 affiliates newsrooms around the country.
The three weekday anchors are Joe Donlon, a veteran co-anchor for WGN-TV’s prime-time news program; Marni Hughes, who has also anchored an evening news program; and Rob Nelson, who was a correspondent for Good Morning America, World News Tonight, and Nightline on ABC.
“Our on-air anchors and reporters, as well as those guiding the off-camera news-gathering process, are award-winning journalists who understand the importance of being objective,” Sean Compton, the executive vice president of WGN America said in a statement. “They reflect the diversity of our country and will be the backbone of News Nation, as WGN America begins charting a new course in television news, designed for the millions of viewers across the U.S. who want their news to be accurate, fair and without opinion.”
Compton said the prime-time lineups on cable news networks misses the mark for people who want a source of unbiased news.
“Sean Hannity is not news,” he told the Los Angeles Times. “He’s a friend of mine. I worked with him in radio for years. He’d get mad at me for saying that, but it’s true. Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon — that’s not news.”
The company reaches 75 million television households across the country.
