Weekend Edition of “NewsNation Prime,” Anchored by Natasha Zouves, Extended to 11 p.m. ET
CHICAGO, IL (August 26, 2025) – NewsNation, America’s fastest-growing cable news network in total day viewership, today announced that it will launch a new weekend show hosted by author and journalist Batya Ungar-Sargon on Saturday, September 20. The one-hour program, “Batya,” will air Saturdays at 4 p.m. ET and feature a review of the week’s top stories interspersed with commentary and analysis. An encore presentation of the show will air Saturdays at 11 p.m. ET. Ms. Ungar-Sargon will also contribute commentary and analysis across NewsNation’s daytime and primetime programming.
With the afternoon addition of “Batya,” NewsNation Now with Anna Kooiman will air from 1-4 p.m. ET, while NewsNation Now with Keleigh Beeson will air from 5-8 p.m. ET and NewsNation Prime, anchored by Natasha Zouves, will be extended by one hour, and air Saturdays and Sundays from 8 -11 p.m. ET.
“Batya is a brilliant voice who understands the current sentiment of the country,” said Michael Corn, NewsNation’s President of Programming & Specials. “NewsNation will always be a platform for all Americans, and we are eager to bring Ms. Ungar-Sargon’s unique perspective to our viewers and extend our live news coverage on the weekends.”
The new weekend show will feature a panel of guests, including prominent politicians, media personalities, and people in the news, who will debate a range of hot-button political and social issues. Ms. Ungar-Sargon will also examine the week’s most newsworthy topics while offering her own sharp analysis and fiercely independent political viewpoint.
Currently, Ms. Ungar-Sargon serves as a columnist for The Free Press. She is also the author of three books, Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy, Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America’s Working Men and Women, and the forthcoming The Left and the Jews.
Prior to joining The Free Press, Ms. Ungar-Sargon was the opinion editor at Newsweek. She appears frequently on major news outlets, including Real Time with Bill Maher, The Megyn Kelly Show, The Daily Wire, Sky News, and writes regularly for The New York Post, Compact Magazine, among other publications.
Ms. Ungar-Sargon graduated from the University of Chicago with a Bachelor’s degree in English and received a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About NewsNation
NewsNation, a Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXST) property, is the country’s source for “News for All Americans.” Validated by independent watchdog groups, the network delivers engaging and unbiased news, reflecting the full range of perspectives across the country. In addition to its dedicated national staff of reporters, producers, and photographers, NewsNation draws on the local expertise of Nexstar’s 6,000 journalists in 110 newsrooms across the country. NewsNation is fully distributed on every pay television platform in the United States, online atwww.newsnationnow.com, and on the NewsNationNow mobile app, available on Android and iOS.
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NEWSNATION TO LAUNCH “BATYA,” HOSTED BY BATYA UNGAR-SARGON, ON SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20
