SpotCrime Partners with Nexstar Broadcasting

Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Inc. reported it has signed a partnership deal with Baltimore-based SpotCrime, an independent data and news company mapping crime.

Under the new agreement, SpotCrime said it will provide local crime data to KAMR, Nexstar's NBC television affiliate in Amarillo, Texas. Nexstar, which is headquartered in Irving, Texas, owns, operates, programs, or provides sales and other services to 54 full-power television stations and nine digital multicast channels in 34 markets nationwide.

"The deal with Nexstar means that SpotCrime is now partnering with more than 70 media outlets in the U.S. to make crime data available," said SpotCrime Founder and President Colin Drane.

SpotCrime recently announced a partnership with Local TV, a broadcast holding company which owns and/or operates broadcast outlets in 19 markets nationwide.

SpotCrime has also signed deals with Newport Television, which owns stations in 22 markets nationwide; Fisher Communications, which owns or manages 28 television and radio stations in the Pacific Northwest; and Capitol Broadcasting Company, with stations in Raleigh, Charlotte, and Durham, NC.

Other media partners include WBAL-AM in Baltimore, NBC-29 in Charlottesville, The Austin Statesman, The Lakeland Ledger, and KLAS-8 Las Vegas.

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