WHEN IS A NEWSROOM DUMPED TO BETTER SERVE ITS VIEWERS?
When Sinclair says so
Category: It’s Sinclair
REGRETS…SINCLAIR HAS A FEW
The company is ready to take back its botched sports venture
SINCLAIR LOOKS BEYOND TELEVISION
Its venture into sports proved disastrous so the company looks outside the industry
THE LATEST IN THE BALLY SPORTS BANKRUPTCY DANCE
We can see why some parties have about had it with Diamond Sports’ shenanigans
CH-CH-CHANGES IN BOISE TV NEWS
Station ownership changes trigger production shifts
SINCLAIR WADES INTO NASTY THROWDOWN WITH COMPANY IT FOUNDED
“Pay up or get lost” ultimatum delivered to bankrupt Diamond Sports Group
UNLOCKING THAT “HIDDEN VALUE”
Sinclair’s sad second-quarter results
SINCLAIR CONTINUES TO EXTRICATE ITSELF FROM ITS DIAMOND SPORTS DEBACLE
A judge allows Diamond aka Bally Sports to tear up yet another contract
WONDER HOW TIKTOK WILL FIT INTO HIS PLANS?
Sinclair fills a brand-new corporate-level social media director slot
SINCLAIR NAMES A NEW GM FOR ILLINOIS COMBO
He’s moving from California
IN BRIEF…
Sinclair names two GMs
SINCLAIR….UHHHH….DIAMOND SPORTS LOOKS TO DUMP ANOTHER MLB TEAM
The Arizona Diamondbacks are poised to be free of the Bally Sports mess.
SINCLAIR…ER…BALLY SPORTS…READY TO BAIL ON MORE OBLIGATIONS
Several more major league baseball teams stand to get stiffed
SINCLAIR’S FAILED SPORTS BET TAKES ITS TOLL
Think the closing of eight newsrooms might have been the result?
SINCLAIR DUMPS NEWS AT YET ANOTHER STATION
Again, the company offers up poor substitute for local coverage
SINCLAIR’S MAY MASSACRE KEEPS GETTING WORSE
Death toll now five this month in shuttered newsrooms, eight altogether
MLB’S CINCINNATI REDS THE LATEST TO GET STIFFED BY SINCLAIR/BALLY SPORTS
They join Arizona, Cleveland and Minnesota
SEARCHING FOR THE NEXT #1
Hmmm….
BALLY SPORTS’ PARENT COMPANY CONTINUES EFFORTS TO SHED SINCLAIR TIES
Another Sinclair-hired exec exits
DITCHING ITS FAILED BALLY SPORTS NETWORK MADE SINCLAIR LOOK PRETTY GOOD
Without the sports albatross, Sinclair’s net income was $55 million, or 79 cents a share, in the fourth quarter
SINCLAIR DUMPS ITS MONEY-GRAB NEWSCAST IN BUFFALO
Post-election expect more stations to dump their pop-up election specials and screw their employees
SINCLAIR SENT TO THE SHOWERS IN DIAMOND SPORTS DEBACLE
Broadcaster benched in last-ditch attempt to save RSN group.
KEEPING IT IN THE SINCLAIR FAMILY
No more living on Tulsa time, he’s Beltway-bound
HMMMMMM…..SINCLAIR AGAIN
“The Baltimore Sun” is reporting that Sinclair Broadcast Group CEO David Smith has pumped $385,000 into an effort to put two charter amendments on the ballot for Baltimore voters to consider: One calls for ...
IS TONE DEAFNESS A REQUIREMENT FOR CEOS???
Back in 2016, it was then-CBS CEO Les Moonves who declared the high-stakes presidential election “It may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS.” Now Chris Ripley, CEO of Sinclair ...
SINCLAIR ASSIGNS DOUBLE DUTY TO A GM
Add another hat to the head of Greg Conner, currently vice president-general manager of Sinclair’s WACH Columbia, S.C., and WFXL Albany, Ga. The 20+-year Sinclair vet has handled those jobs so well, the folks ...
SAME FACE, SAME NEWSCAST, DIFFERENT STUDIO
Consolidation of resources and product continues apace in smaller markets across the country. A recent example comes from Humboldt-Redding CA where Sinclair is consolidating its morning newscast to broadcast both on KRCR in Redding ...
SINCLAIR NAMES A GROUP EXEC
Sinclair took a look at WSYX/WTTE news director JAMIE JUSTICE and evidently liked what they saw. She’s been promoted to a Sinclair Group News Director. Justice has been the news director at WSYX for ...
IT APPEARS RUSSIAN BADDIES GOT TO SINCLAIR. BUT THAT’S NOT THE WORST
The Sinclair execs want you to know (and believe) that the effect of the weekend hack on local television station operations is just about over so we probably won’t be seeing too many more ...
FCC HANDS SINCLAIR A STIFF ONE
The FCC is coming down hard on Sinclair for what it characterized back in September 2020 as bad faith negotiating on retransmission rights. Ten million dollars worth of hard, or just over 510,000 for ...
“AS UNHAPPY AS I AM ABOUT THE WHOLE THING, I AM NOT READY TO RETIRE.”
Read on.
AND YOU MIGHT ASK YOURSELF…
Why Sinclair Broadcast Group Chair David Smith unloaded over 585,000 shares of Sinclair stock in two transactions last Friday and this past Monday? Smith pocketed in the neighborhood of $20,000,000 in the two transactions. ...
SINCLAIR’S PINK SLIPS CONTINUE TO FLY
Little more than a week into its campaign to cut 5% of its 9,211-strong workforce (that mean the elimination of about 460 jobs) Hunt Valley, MD-based Sinclair Broadcast is moving quickly among its 125 ...
SINCLAIR MOVES VETERAN METEOROLOGIST FROM BALTIMORE TO WEST PALM
After 18 years delivering the forecast at Sinclair flagship WBFF in Baltimore, Vytas Reid is headed for sunnier climes. Starting next month, he’ll be chief met for Sinclair’s West Palm Beach, FL outlet, WPEC. ...
$$$$$$ IN THEIR EYES
We’re being told that there is ten BILLION dollars in political advertising being waved around out there, and that explains a great deal why you’re seeing a flurry of local newscast expansions around the ...
NO MORE POLITICAL COMMENTARY
The Hollywood Reporter reports the Sinclair Broadcast Group will stop producing the must-run political commentary segments that have attracted the company a lot of criticism since former Trump White House staffer Boris Epshteyn began hosting ...
OVERDUE?
Rick Gevers reported over the weekend that Mike Tomko is leaving Sinclair flagship WBFF in Baltimore at the end of the year for a job outside of television. He’s been the ND there since ...
SINCLAIR STUMBLES
Just a few months ago, Sinclair Broadcast Group was riding high at $60 a share. These days, the price is hovering in the $35 range and the folks at Hunt Valley, while not hitting ...
UNDER THE BUS
It is evidently 22 years and “don’t let the door hit ya” for Pat Baldwin, gm of Sinclair’s KTUL in Tulsa, OK. This popped up on LinkedIn overnight: So here’s your chance to “Make ...
SINCLAIR LOSING PATIENCE WITH DISH
The 21 Fox regional sports networks now owned by Sinclair have been blacked out on Dish and Sling TV since July. And the folks at Hunt Valley, MD HQ are getting a bit impatient ...
SINCLAIR AND ATT REACH AN AGREEMENT. MOVE ALONG
And the terms of the settlement are none of your damned business. Two weeks after DirecTV, U-Verse and AT&T TV NOW subscribers were faced with a “blackout” of all Sinclair Broadcast Group stations, all ...
WELL AT LEAST HE’S OPEN ABOUT IT
NBC News sat down for an interview with Sinclair Broadcasting President and CEO Christopher Ripley and we must say that we have to give him props for making no bones where his priorities lie. ...
YOU STAY CLASSY SINCLAIR
Viewers of last night’s third Democratic debate in the Washington, DC area were treated to a lovely picture postcard courtesy of something called “New Faces GOP”. The video, which you can see below, aired ...
ON THE MOVE
Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. has brought on an executive with sports marketing experience as the company inches closer to completing its purchase of 21 Fox regional sports networks. Cathy Jamison joins Sinclair as vice president ...
BACK IN THE KEYSTONE STATE
Jason Wildenstein is the newly-named general manager of Sinclair’s WJAC up the road from us in Johnstown, PA. It’s a return to the Keystone State for Wildenstein who has work experiences at three Pennsylvania ...
DEM TRIO ZERO IN ON SINCLAIR
Sinclair’s well-earned reputation precedes it, and invites scrutiny at every turn. A trio of Democratic presidential hopefuls are urging a thorough examination of Disney’s $10.6 billion sale of its 21 regional sports networks to ...
SINCLAIR DROPS “CODE RED” AND METEOROLOGIST
Here is how Sinclair handles it when they are called out as boneheads. Meteorologist Joe Crain disappeared a week ago today from Sinclair’s WICS in Springfield, IL after he slammed the company’s new “Terror ...
ADVERTISERS FLEE SINCLAIR SPRINGFIELD STATION
While the future of meteorologist Joe Crain remains in limbo, his yanking from the airwaves of Sinclair’s WICS in Springfield, IL because of his on-air diss of a corporate weather policy is taking a ...
BUH-BYE TO SINCLAIR IN CHICO
Jennifer Scarborough will end a 20+ year career with Sinclair owned KRCR in Chico/Redding, CA at the end of the month. She’s leaving to spend more time with her aging parents in New Mexico. ...
MIA IN SPRINGFIELD
Thou shalt not criticize thy corporation’s stupid edicts. This eleventh commandment was apparently broken by WICS meteorologist Joe Crain, who called out the “Code Red” weather warning system, instituted company-wide by the Hunt Valley, ...
MENINO MAKES IN-HOUSE MOVE
After 7 years in the Beehive State, morning anchor Holly Menino is waving goodbye to Sinclair’s KUTV in Salt Lake City and is heading back to her home state of Washington and sister station ...
A SINCLAIR SHUFFLE
Another inter-company promotion sends Jay Mishkin to Sinclair owned WGME in Portland, ME as news director. He’s been the morning EP for Sinclair’s WJLA in Washington for the past two years, after almost 20 years in ...
SINCLAIR’S BANK PROBLEM
Maybe Sinclair Broadcast Group execs feel pretty good about their successful winning of the bidding war for 21 Fox Sports regional networks. Certainly their shareholders are seeing visions of untold dividends, since Sinclair stock ...
ERASING THE EVIDENCE
Sinclair and Dish held separate shredding parties in the past week, tying up some of the last loose ends in Sinclair’s aborted bid to snap up Tribune – which soon will be absorbed into ...
SINCLAIR POISED FOR BIG BUY
We may be hearing by the end of the week that Sinclair Broadcast is set to take over the 21 regional Fox Sports Networks. Shedding those networks was condition for Disney‘s takeover of 21st ...
SINCLAIR NAMES MARKET VET TO PORTLAND GM JOB
Susan Walther is the new GM at Sinclair’s WGME in Portland, ME. Walther has been general sales manager of the station for the last nine years. Over the past 30 years, she has held ...
BELT-TIGHTENING AT AN ALREADY-TIGHT COMPANY
We’re told by several Newsbluesers that, hefty profits notwithstanding, managers across the Sinclair local television stations are under orders to cut overtime by 50%. Despite 2018’s third quarter net income that doubled to $63.9 ...
SINCLAIR GETTING SERIOUS ABOUT SPORTS
Frustrated in its failed bid to take over Tribune Media stations, Sinclair seems to be turning its eye toward sports. First, there was the partnership announced with the Chicago Cubs that created the Marquee ...
SINCLAIR ENVISIONS BIG POLITICAL $$$ “HAND OVER FIST”
Depending on which headline you want to believe, Sinclair either had an anemic fourth quarter or a successful one in 2018. Net income fell to $206.2 million, or $2.10 a share, from $443.5 million, ...
MAKE IT MT. TRUMPMORE?
It’s been suggested, even demanded, before. Add another face to Mt. Rushmore. Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt should be joined by….? Richard Nixon? Ronald Reagan? Barack Obama? And now, Sinclair’s must-run and never-heeded ...
NEWS FROM THE DARK SIDE…
Mark Ginther is joining Sinclair Broadcasting as Director of News and Operations. He will oversee the day to day content and also help the company’s investigative teams. He’ll be based at Sinclair headquarters in Baltimore. ...
