Is MattMorseTV the same person as Matt Morse at Nexstar?

Checked on January 31, 2026
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Executive summary

Available reporting does not establish that MattMorseTV (also known online as StaySafeTV or StaysafeTV) is the same individual as Matt Morse who was recently named Vice President and General Manager for Nexstar’s Fresno operations; the public Nexstar profile and local press depict a broadcast executive with decades in television sales and management, while independent gaming and social-media coverage describes a streamer/content-creator using the MattMorseTV handle and the StaysafeTV persona [1] [2] [3] [4].

1. A career in corporate broadcast: who Nexstar’s Matt Morse is

Nexstar’s official announcement and local news outlets identify Matt Morse as the newly appointed Vice President and General Manager for KSEE/KGPE in Fresno, with a professional history in broadcast sales and management across multiple U.S. markets and recent roles within Nexstar’s station group [1] [2]; Fresno coverage and trade press emphasize his prior general-manager work at KMPH/KFRE and a stint as Sales Manager at KRON in San Francisco, framing him as a conventional broadcast executive with over twenty years in television [5] [6] [7].

2. The online persona: MattMorseTV / StaySafeTV as a streamer and commentator

Independent and community-focused sources catalog a Matt Morse known as StaySafeTV or MattMorseTV who built an audience through World of Warcraft livestreams and later shifted toward political commentary online, with platform fingerprints such as a YouTube channel and activity on X/Twitter and Rumble playlists tied to that handle [3] [8] [4]; gaming coverage and aggregator pages describe streamer-specific episodes, audience metrics, and incidents common to content creators, such as a reported swatting and platform reactions, none of which appear in Nexstar’s corporate materials [3] [4].

3. The overlap claim — what the sources do and do not show

A tertiary entry (a Grokipedia-like page) explicitly asserts that Matt Morse “known online as StaySafeTV and MattMorseTV,” but that source reads like a crowd-sourced profile and is not corroborated by Nexstar’s official bio or the local business press, which present the Nexstar Matt Morse solely in professional broadcast terms [3] [1] [2]; trade and local reporting about the Nexstar hire make no reference to streamer activity or the StaySafeTV persona, and streamer-focused coverage does not cite corporate broadcasting roles at Nexstar or KRON beyond platform‑level bios, leaving a gap in authoritative linkage [6] [7] [4].

4. Plausible explanations and the responsible conclusion

The most parsimonious interpretations are two: either these sources refer to two different individuals who happen to share the same name, or there is a single person with both a corporate broadcast career and an online streamer persona whose dual identity has not been publicly acknowledged or verified by primary outlets; current, verifiable reporting supports the first interpretation more strongly because Nexstar’s press and local business profiles detail a conventional broadcast résumé without mentioning streaming activity, while streamer coverage details gaming history and online incidents absent from corporate biographies [1] [2] [3] [4]. Without direct confirmation—such as an explicit statement from Nexstar, the individual in question, or cross-referenced professional records linking the streamer handles to Nexstar’s executive—definitive identification cannot responsibly be asserted from the available reporting [1] [3].

5. What to watch next and how readers can verify

Verification would come from primary-source corroboration: Nexstar or station statements linking the executive to online handles, platform profiles that list professional employment history matching Nexstar bios, or independent reporting that reconciles the two biographies; absent that, readers should treat the Grokipedia-style aggregation and scattered playlist entries as suggestive but not dispositive and remain cautious about conflating name similarity with identity, particularly when corporate press releases and community gaming reporting each focus on materially different careers and contacts [9] [3] [8].

Want to dive deeper?
Has Nexstar publicly acknowledged any employees who also produce independent online political content?
What publicly available ways exist to verify whether an online handle belongs to a corporate executive (e.g., LinkedIn, company bios, verified social accounts)?
Are there documented cases where journalists or companies have mistaken public figures with identical names, and how were those errors corrected?