This Will Piss Off Nexstar Employees

While rank-and-file employees across the country face a relentless corporate squeeze of lean budgets, denied cost-of-living raises, and workforce reductions, Nexstar Media Group founder and CEO Perry Sook has secured a sprawling coastal retreat.

Sook and his wife, Sandra Sook, closed on a deal for a "rare" luxury property at 9 Nicklaus Lane on Kiawah Island, purchasing the estate for $16.15 million.

The transaction highlights a stark contrast within the nation's largest local television operator. While Sook steers a corporation that controls 265 television stations across 44 states—frequently implementing strict frugality, consolidated news operations, and stringent cost-cutting measures at the local station level, he has added a premier luxury asset to his portfolio as his third property.

The red-cedar-shingled estate sits along the 14th green of the Jack Nicklaus-designed Turtle Point Golf Course. Spanning more than 8,000 square feet, the property features seven bedrooms, seven bathrooms, and foundations built of Old Savannah brick under a copper and cedar-shake roof.

Think about that, Sook could have hired over 350 MMJs for the same amount of money he paid for this house.