The chairman of The Hill, Jimmy Finkelstein, announced on Twitter that the website and associated enterprises have been sold to Nexstar Media Group, a Texas-based company that owns nearly 200 television stations across the country.

“Today, The Hill has been sold to Nexstar Media Group, which is America’s largest television company,” Finkelstein wrote with The Hill’s characteristic inability to get facts clarified.  (Nexstar operates television stations; it doesn’t manufacture televisions.)  “We have done this with mixed feelings.  First, I realize with a heavy heart that it is time for me to move on to new ventures.  Those will be known in the next several months.  Yet at the same time I recognize with great pride all that we accomplished together and are about to produce.”

Finkelstein’s statement, while reflecting the needs of The Hill for editors, also fail to mention the various scandals fostered by the right-wing website.  The Hill was home to John Solomon, whose posts on the Ukraine scandal failed to mention his involvement in planning a Hunter Biden-based distraction to Donald Trump’s first impeachment.

The Hill has also been plagued by far-right columnists who promote outlandish political rubbish while the site attempted to promote a veneer of non-partisanship.

Besides their cache of local stations, Nexstar operates the Food Network and Cooking Channel.  It also runs NewsNation, a cable news channel that morphed from WGN America.

UPDATE (4:55 p.m. ET):  The deal was for $130 million, according to the Dallas Morning News.