Nexstar Media Group has hired a former NBC Universal and TEGNA executive to oversee the company’s station operations.
Bill Nardi joins Nexstar after serving in broadcast TV operations for nearly two decades. As the Vice President of Station Operations, Nardi will be responsible for overseeing projects that involve the company’s portfolio of nearly 200 local TV stations, as well as other brands like the CW Network, Antenna TV, Rewind TV and NewsNation.
Nardi will report to Nexstar Vice President of Operations Blake Russell. Nardi is succeeding Mark Turner, a seasoned broadcasting executive who has spent more than three decades in the industry.
“Bill is the ideal candidate to succeed Mark and will build upon everything he has done for Nexstar,” Russell said. “Bill is talented, innovative, and tremendously experienced in managing large-scale broadcast operations, coordinating and executing live coverage of major news and sporting events, and working with national television networks.”
“Mark’s contributions to Nexstar over the years cannot be overstated,” Russell continued. “He was instrumental in the technical development, construction and roll out of NewsNation, as well as the hub for our Washington, D.C., bureau including NewsNation, The Hill, and our local stations in the nation’s capital. He has helped flawlessly execute the expansion of Nexstar’s station group and broadcast operating centers, and consistently delivered projects on time and on budget. We will miss Mark.”
Nardi recently served as the Vice President of Station Operations for TEGNA, where he worked for nearly seven years before moving on from the broadcaster last September to form his own strategic consulting firm.
He also spent more than five months at Canada-based Dejero Labs, where he helped the company develop best practices to serve their broadcasting clients, to include oversight of Dejero’s global support and field sales engineers.
Nardi worked for a number of local TV stations during his career, including WJAR (Channel 10, NBC) in Rhode Island, WVIT (Channel 30, NBC) in Connecticut and WRC-TV (Channel 4, NBC) in Washington, D.C., the latter two of which are owned by Comcast’s NBC Universal.
