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by Martin Stett
Wed Oct 11, 2023 3:26 pm
Forum: Flint, Tri-Cities, and The Thumb
Topic: Sinclair’s Sports Channels Prepare Bankruptcy, Putting Team Payments at Risk
Replies: 101
Views: 26066

Re: Sinclair’s Sports Channels Prepare Bankruptcy, Putting Team Payments at Risk

Reality TV. Nothing homier than Dog the Bounty Hunter Sinclair Broadcast Group will launch a new diginet that will replace the Stadium Sports Network on subchannels across the country. Dubbed “The Nest” (doesn’t that sound “Cozi“?), the offering will be offered for free over the air, largely piggyba...
by Martin Stett
Tue Oct 03, 2023 12:50 pm
Forum: Flint, Tri-Cities, and The Thumb
Topic: Sinclair stations aired a sponsored segment featuring a white nationalist who supports killing journalists
Replies: 8
Views: 2294

Sinclair stations aired a sponsored segment featuring a white nationalist who supports killing journalists

Just when you thought they couldn't sink any lower. https://www.mediamatters.org/stew-peters/sinclair-stations-aired-sponsored-segment-featuring-white-nationalist-who-supports At least 16 Sinclair television stations ran sponsored gold investment segments featuring white nationalist and antisemitic ...
by Martin Stett
Sun Jul 23, 2023 9:07 am
Forum: Flint, Tri-Cities, and The Thumb
Topic: Sinclair’s Sports Channels Prepare Bankruptcy, Putting Team Payments at Risk
Replies: 101
Views: 26066

Re: Sinclair’s Sports Channels Prepare Bankruptcy, Putting Team Payments at Risk

The guy hired by Sinclair to run Bally Sports, drives the RSNs into the ground, it falls into bankruptcy, Sinclair fires him… and then it agrees to pay him a MONTHLY consulting fee of $109,000! Part of that money is to pay off a $343,000 golf membership! All while Sinclair shuts down local newsroom...
by Martin Stett
Fri Jul 14, 2023 6:03 pm
Forum: Flint, Tri-Cities, and The Thumb
Topic: National Anthem (WNEM)
Replies: 7
Views: 1635

Re: National Anthem (WNEM)

I'd stay up to 4.30 if they ran the SCTV anthems.
https://youtu.be/bYUrc2gapf0
by Martin Stett
Fri Jul 07, 2023 7:42 pm
Forum: Flint, Tri-Cities, and The Thumb
Topic: Flint TV Stations and their horrible signals.
Replies: 21
Views: 3228

Re: Flint TV Stations and their horrible signals.

Both U of M and CMU were short sighted in not trying harder to make Channel 28 sustainable. U of M was uninterested in anything occurring outside of the sacred precincts of Ann Arbor. CMU wanted that bandwidth money to hire more deans. WDCQ is doing a great job of filling the void they left. It's i...
by Martin Stett
Wed May 31, 2023 10:02 pm
Forum: Flint, Tri-Cities, and The Thumb
Topic: Sinclair’s Sports Channels Prepare Bankruptcy, Putting Team Payments at Risk
Replies: 101
Views: 26066

Re: Sinclair’s Sports Channels Prepare Bankruptcy, Putting Team Payments at Risk

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/37762861/diamond-sports-group-fails-pay-padres-loses-broadcast-rights?platform=amp&fbclid=IwAR0JmymPCe5cDQ-BDV_aCc9Cu1B7A-Al0Px16hPmwYkAXL4X8lWoctzYLRg Diamond Sports Group has decided not to pay the San Diego Padres their latest rights fee, a monumental developme...
by Martin Stett
Wed May 31, 2023 8:26 am
Forum: Flint, Tri-Cities, and The Thumb
Topic: Bondy yelling at viewers
Replies: 55
Views: 11145

Re: Bondy yelling at viewers

the HR Director/ Grilled Cheese Party Planner threatened that he would NEVER work for another Sinclair station ever again.
"Can I get that in writing?"
by Martin Stett
Sat May 13, 2023 10:41 am
Forum: Flint, Tri-Cities, and The Thumb
Topic: Sinclair called out
Replies: 11
Views: 1976

Re: Sinclair called out

sinklair wrote:
Sat May 13, 2023 10:20 am
It’s also telling that Sinclair is pulling out of providing news in some medium sized markets that are largely Democratic. Flint, Toledo, etc.
Because their newsprop is so ineffectual that only the convinced will tune in--and the skeptics avoid it.
by Martin Stett
Thu May 04, 2023 7:21 pm
Forum: Flint, Tri-Cities, and The Thumb
Topic: Local news expansion
Replies: 16
Views: 2957

Re: Local news expansion

More on Sinclair.
https://youtu.be/0fgxoPFZMZU
Antenna Man; great source for anything OTA tech.
by Martin Stett
Tue May 02, 2023 10:56 pm
Forum: Flint, Tri-Cities, and The Thumb
Topic: Sinclair called out
Replies: 11
Views: 1976

Re: Sinclair called out

https://www.mediamatters.org/sinclair-broadcast-group/sinclair-closing-10-local-tv-newsrooms-it-will-broadcast-right-wing TVSpy also reported in March that “Sinclair’s NBC affiliate WEYI and Fox affiliate WSMH in Flint, Michigan, was told that the local morning and weekend evening newscasts on both ...
by Martin Stett
Mon May 01, 2023 2:24 pm
Forum: Flint, Tri-Cities, and The Thumb
Topic: More layoffs going down at Sinclair Stations including Flint
Replies: 90
Views: 15917

Re: More layoffs going down at Sinclair Stations including Flint

sinklair wrote:
Mon May 01, 2023 1:04 am
How exactly does dropping local news coverage, eliminating complete newscasts, laying off staff, dropping community involvement, etc. equate to acting in the public interest?
By making their newscasts so terrible, and the arguing that the public is better served by no news at all?
by Martin Stett
Thu Apr 13, 2023 9:41 am
Forum: Flint, Tri-Cities, and The Thumb
Topic: Sinclair 1 Day of Caring
Replies: 7
Views: 1338

Re: Sinclair 1 Day of Caring

Meanwhile in Nashville . . . https://www.mediamatters.org/sinclair-broadcast-group/sinclair-owned-nashville-station-pushed-right-wing-narratives-response Sinclair Broadcast Group’s Nashville-based station WZTV repeated right-wing narratives about gun control, ineffective solutions for gun violence, ...
by Martin Stett
Sun Apr 09, 2023 2:19 pm
Forum: Flint, Tri-Cities, and The Thumb
Topic: More layoffs going down at Sinclair Stations including Flint
Replies: 90
Views: 15917

Re: More layoffs going down at Sinclair Stations including Flint

paul8539 wrote:
Sun Apr 09, 2023 3:19 am
MW: When you said 'from sign on to sign off'. Do any of the stations sign off at night any more? Aren't they all 24 hour stations now?
I think after 1 a.m. it's nothing but infomercials until 6 a.m. at the earliest. Some of the network affiliates have an overnight news hour.
by Martin Stett
Sat Mar 18, 2023 10:22 am
Forum: Flint, Tri-Cities, and The Thumb
Topic: More layoffs going down at Sinclair Stations including Flint
Replies: 90
Views: 15917

Re: More layoffs going down at Sinclair Stations including Flint

https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2023/3/17/just-in-layoffs-going-down-at-sinclair-stations The word is that newscasts are being cancelled and will be replaced by news from Sinclair’s The National Desk. Letterman did a bit about cutbacks at CBS. The Evening News consisted of Dan Rather by a tv set ...