As president and CEO of station group Nexstar, Perry Sook runs a nearly $200 million entity that owns, operates or services more than 46 small and midsize TV stations in 27 markets. And he is busy righting for all of them. Sook says cable operators aren't treating his stations fairly. He insists they pay to retransmit his stations' broadcasts—or stop carrying them. He doesn't want ad time to promote the broadcasts, Sook wants cash: 300 per subscriber, monthly. Cable executives aren't buying it. But the onetime-teenage-radio-DJ-turned-corporate-executive isn't afraid of battle—or hard work, Hailing from DuBois, Pa., Sook received his third-class radio license in high school. His first broadcasting job was at WPME(AM/FM) Punxsutawney, Pa., where he operated the board in the DJ booth and spun records on Sunday nights. Throughout the summer, he sold advertising for the station. "It was a great experience," Sook recalls, and it put him on his career path.
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