When the owner of your company doesn’t give a flip about ethics and donates to campaigns that your stations cover…
https://www.baltimoresun.com/politics/b ... story.html
When your company openly violates the laws governing your industry and receives millions of dollars in fines…
https://www.rbr.com/sinclair-and-shared ... iolations/
https://deadline.com/2022/09/fcc-sincla ... 24032/amp/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technolo ... cast-fine/
https://www.latimes.com/business/hollyw ... story.html
And it uses dubious means of naming sidecar companies like Howard Stirk Holdings/Armstrong Williams and Cunningham to get around FCC ownership rules…
When your company is sued for age, racial, disability and gender discrimination…
https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-sues ... rimination
https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-sues ... rimination
https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news ... 939256.php
And your company is sued for illegal price fixing trying to drive up commercial as costs…
https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-set ... onspiracy/
When your company forces its political agenda in “must run” stories into local newscasts and websites…
https://www.mediamatters.org/sinclair-b ... nt-flights
When your company hires former Trump administration officials who are part of the ongoing investigation into the January 6th insurrection…
https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2022/ ... d-00062222
And then it asks its stations to not run national network news reports on Congressional hearings…
https://www.mediamatters.org/sinclair-b ... arings-its
When your company’s CEO openly supports the philosophy that the degrading political discourse is good for business…
https://deadline.com/2022/05/political- ... 28187/amp/
When a study blasts the political bias and national agenda driven focus that your company has on its local newscast broadcasts…
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10. ... ode=upcp20
When your company fails to protect your employees information from cyber security attacks…
https://www.npr.org/2021/10/18/10470712 ... are-attack
When your company only hires sales people to run your stations with a sole focus on reducing operational costs and increasing profit margins over the quality of your local broadcasts…
https://www.tvtechnology.com/news/sincl ... flint-mich
When during the pandemic your company lays off thousands of people, cuts back on benefits, and limits pay raises to 1% despite rising inflation…
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/03/media/si ... index.html
When your company puts profits over people…
https://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/n ... nings.html
When your company becomes the laughing stock of the broadcasting industry…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GvtNyOzGogc
And it’s owner is caught soliciting sex from a hooker…
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/si ... ex-worker/
That’s why you get disgruntled employees who are leaving your stations in droves. A good company culture starts at the top with its leaders valuing its employees.
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Culture starts at the top
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Re: Culture starts at the top
Unbelievable. I heard the new owners of abc12 are bad too. What about the owners of channel 5
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Re: Culture starts at the top
Gray Television— which used to own ABC 12 — now owns WNEM. They are the best corporate owners in town currently. They don’t have the baggage that Sinclair has — Gray’s not cheap and better organized than Byron Allen Media. We miss Gray, but we were glad when they took Pete Veto with them.
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After watching ABC12’s news product decline since Byron Allen bought the station, I truly wish that he’d sell the station to a media group who would give a damnUnder New Management wrote: ↑Wed Oct 19, 2022 7:23 pmGray Television— which used to own ABC 12 — now owns WNEM. They are the best corporate owners in town currently. They don’t have the baggage that Sinclair has — Gray’s not cheap and better organized than Byron Allen Media. We miss Gray, but we were glad when they took Pete Veto with them.
Re: Culture starts at the top
Let’s be clear… all these mega media conglomerates are killing their local stations. Here’s the latest salary report from Syracuse University that says journalists — who are already paid like crap — continue to lose ground in pay:
“The latest RTDNA/Newhouse School at Syracuse University Survey found local television news salaries rose just 1.1% in 2021. That’s down sharply from the 3.5% growth in 2020. Adjusted for inflation, salaries actually fell 5.9% in terms of real wages. More than 85% of TV news directors said they found it harder to recruit people this past year.”
https://www.rtdna.org/article/rtdna_syr ... urvey_2022
“The latest RTDNA/Newhouse School at Syracuse University Survey found local television news salaries rose just 1.1% in 2021. That’s down sharply from the 3.5% growth in 2020. Adjusted for inflation, salaries actually fell 5.9% in terms of real wages. More than 85% of TV news directors said they found it harder to recruit people this past year.”
https://www.rtdna.org/article/rtdna_syr ... urvey_2022
Re: Culture starts at the top
Another example of how Sinclair only hires the “very best” people!
Former Sinclair commentator/rocks in mouth Boris Epshteyn was arrested for groping women:
https://www.wnem.com/2023/08/11/trump-a ... ords-show/
Of course you won’t find this story on Mid-Michigan now.com or any other Sinclair website. #SinclairCoverup
Former Sinclair commentator/rocks in mouth Boris Epshteyn was arrested for groping women:
https://www.wnem.com/2023/08/11/trump-a ... ords-show/
Of course you won’t find this story on Mid-Michigan now.com or any other Sinclair website. #SinclairCoverup