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Owner?

For purposes of determining media bias, is Sinclair publically held or is it a subsidiary of some other corporation? Given its behavior, I would assume its controller to be a conservative/Republican dominated organization or corporation. Isn't the point of a resource like wikipedia to bring out the facts that are being hidden? If someone knows who owns Sinclair, please add it to the article. -Kasreyn

Sinclair is publicly trade under SBGI on Nasdaq.

Though Sinclair became a public company in 1995 and is currently traded on NASDAQ under the symbol SBGI, the Smith family still retains a majority financial interest, and all four Smith brothers serve as executives or directors. - Nick Davis

delisting? no

i deleted the statement they were close to the delsiting price, they were no where near delisting. http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=SBGI&a=5&b=7&c=1995&d=3&e=7&f=2006&g=d&z=66&y=330 I was heavily watching and investigating the sinclair events closely as events transpired, and added in some background on why the stock fell. much more than I am said.

Sinclair allegedly going to lose their Fox affiliation

http://deadline.com/2017/08/sinclair-broadcasting-shares-slip-report-fox-switch-affiliations-ion-media-1202141471/

Note this article suggests that if Fox signs a deal with ion for affiliation deals. Sinclair was named in this article specifically if Fox signs deal with ion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:640:C400:775B:0:0:0:E5F6 (talk) 21:51, 3 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Clear Channel's comparison to Sinclair

What's the point of this statement? "SBG has been compared to the radio conglomerate Clear Channel Communications (although it owns TV stations as well as radio stations)." Unless there is a reason offered, then it's a pointless comparison. One does TV and the other does TV and radio. In other words, that is about as comparable as any two media companies. Big deal. I'm deleting. Goeverywhere 23:43, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

TVX?

Does it seem like Sinclar owns most of the old TVX stations (such as WTVZ)? WAVY 10 16:14, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

SBGI's financial problems.

While Sinclair Broadcast Group is in financial trouble and could file for bankruptcy protection, let's wait until the actual filing before saying they are in bankruptcy. Steelbeard1 (talk) 11:40, 25 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

News Operation/Website

Whether or not a Sinclair station has a news operation adds a lot of information regarding that station's staff size and community involvement and is pertinent information under the Sinclair-Owned-Stations section.

Additionally, it is also useful to have links to the stations' websites on a Station Group page like this one.

Whoever deleted both these cells from the "Sinclair Owned Stations" table said the information was easily accessible via each individual stations' websites which was reason for "cleaning up the table". I'd argue that the benefit of this information being listed on the station group's Wikipedia page is in immediate access. Additionally, without providing a link to the websites, the information is much harder to come by. People come to Wikipedia for quick access to information. I've restored the cells to that table. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.228.227.57 (talk) 02:30, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

That was me, and it is true. Those separate columns for "digital channel" and "virtual channel", as well as adding info for the stations' websites aren't needed here. The same goes for a column on whether or not the station has a news department. All of that information can be found in each of the stations' individual pages. It's too much for the main Sinclair article. It is always best to keep it simple. DreamMcQueen (talk) 03:04, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of political programming section

May an explanation be given regarding the deletion of the "Political programming" section? The whole section was deleted today (5/8/2017) by an unknown contributor who cited "politically motivated commentary." Has the section been moved to a separate article? Darrel M (talk) 23:51, 8 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Split the station listing to a separate page?

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was split. Jgera5 (talk) 07:27, 19 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Split. Although I would like to keep it all in one page, I wouldn't mind seeing the SBG one split. The station listing is getting bigger as acquisitions are being announced, and as they get approved/consummated the list will continue to grow. And if approved with the other pending deals, 18 more stations would be added to the list. So I think its best for that segment to be split. - Csworldwide1 (talk) 19:49, 24 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Agree. The station is quite long now, so it is appropriately so to split it off. Spshu (talk) 21:31, 9 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support This discussion has been up long enough, I might work on it later this week when I have time. Jgera5 (talk) 17:54, 17 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-sinclair-promo-20180405-story.html

https://www.dailynews.com/2017/05/08/why-a-sinclair-tribune-deal-could-be-bad-news-for-ktla5-employees-viewers-guest-commentary/

https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/4/5/17202336/sinclair-broadcasting-promo-deadspin

Updates on the Sinclair issue — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:640:C600:8270:C4D3:BD4C:D118:1C18 (talk) 21:24, 7 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Circa

Where is the content regarding?

http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bs-bz-sinclair-circa-expansion-20170227-story.html

--Wikipietime (talk) 15:38, 3 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I added--Wikipietime (talk) 11:03, 24 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

David D. Smith

Considering creating a separate article on David D. Smith. --Wikipietime (talk) 10:51, 24 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Split of Tribune buyout

The subsection in itself is getting too big, and has attracted enough mainstream media attention that it warrants being expanded upon and split into its own article. A case could also be made on having Sinclair's history being split into its own article as well, but I want to focus on the Tribune deal. It's pretty much a done deal, but I still suggest adding "proposed" first since it hasn't been officially consummated yet.

Another reason for the split could be the FCC blatantly changing their regulations to favor Sinclair (although some could argue that the changes needing made are overdue anyways) and the changing media landscape as a whole, which could see more "Big Four" O&O's come out of it ultimately, if not the networks moving away from terrestrial television altogether. Thoughts? Jgera5 (talk) 15:27, 25 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Haven't heard any comments and this posting was up for two weeks, so I went ahead and created a new article. Jgera5 (talk) 03:20, 8 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

"This is extremely dangerous to our Democracy."

All these local media outlets/channels becoming owned by one company? I wonder what this could mean. 2601:40D:4400:CE20:4147:B16D:78B8:DBF7 (talk) 01:10, 1 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I am not sure of the origin of this video.

D (31 March 2018). "Sinclair's script for stations".

Here on 31 March a small YouTube account called D published this. I do not know if D made the video or if it came from elsewhere. Boing Boing linked to D's version on 1 April.

Beschizza, Rob (1 April 2018). "Watch countless American news anchors mindlessly intone the same propaganda script". boingboing.net.

Blue Rasberry (talk) 00:27, 2 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/112604/ksnvs-nd-defends-sinclairs-promo

Now a Las Vegas Sinclair News Director speaks up on the company video. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:640:C600:8270:0:0:0:8394 (talk) 22:04, 8 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

https://deadspin.com/how-i-made-a-dumb-video-making-fun-of-sinclair-broadcas-1825106452

Now Deadspin staff member comes forward on why he made the Sinclair compilation video and supposedly initially for the dumbness of the video. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:640:C600:8270:0:0:0:54AE (talk) 22:24, 9 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Sinclair on the Hot Seat over Jaime Allman's Rape threat on David Hogg

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2018/04/09/sinclair-commentator-resigns-after-threatening-to-sexually-assault-parkland-survivor-david-hogg/?utm_term=.fd305b99e8ef

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/sinclair-host-resigns-threatening-assault-david-hogg-article-1.3924723

A new scandal has hit Sinclair over one of their pundits Jamie Allman calling for a rape threat on David Hogg according to the Washington Post and New york Daily news.

The 40% contract penalty by Sinclair

https://www.thedailybeast.com/sinclair-making-employees-sign-highly-problematic-contracts-legal-experts-say?source=articles&via=rss

http://www.dailyherald.com/business/20180403/sinclair-employees-say-contracts-make-it-too-expensive-to-quit

Here are 2 updates from Daily Herald and the Daily Beast These 2 outlets are reporting that the reason Sinclair employees can't speak up on the issues involving their leaders Scott Livingston, David D. Smith and their News Directors is because of the penalties written in their talent contracts.

https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/4/5/17202336/sinclair-broadcasting-promo-deadspin — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:640:C600:8270:429F:87FF:FE0B:3663 (talk) 16:36, 8 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Parentheses

I came to this article after reading about Sinclair in the news. Pretty well researched and written. My main piece of feedback is that there are too many parentheticals, making it difficult to read. The parentheticals should be phased out and sentences should be broken up into smaller, more digestible pieces. I was thinking about tagging the article with {{copyedit}} but decided that might be overkill. (I am not watching this page, so please ping me if you want my attention.) --Dr. Fleischman (talk) 15:49, 3 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Reason for notability

I think a prime aspect of Sinclair's notability is it being a threat to our democracy; this is well-referenced with numerous critics on both the left and right parts of the political spectrum (Dan Rather=mainstream; Joe Scarborough=>was GOP congressperson). The danger should be emphasized in the lede section; right now, it's buried near the bottom.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 11:09, 5 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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