Sinclair only owns WSMH. They are operating WEYI through a shared services agreement with Armstrong Williams’ Howard Stirk Holdings. They run WBSF through Cunningham. All sidecar deals to avoid running into FCC ownership cap issues. However, the FCC has been cracking down these end arounds with laws...

Kager: I invest my money in businesses with future growth opportunities. That is not local TV until all the corporate consultants and bean counters are let go.

And you can expect GM Ken to continue to back her… even as everyone not in Jayne’s inner circle flees. Ken is as big of a problem as Jayne.

Or… hire more journalists and pay them a living wage.

AI rewrites don’t solve the problem of not having real coverage of local issues.

How is Nexstar doing this? I thought they were at the ownership cap — and the FCC was making them divest stations like WPIX in New York City?

I believe it’s located in the Farmington Hills area.

https://sports.newsnetmedia.com/

Let’s see how well your predictions turn out. Look at what CBS is doing nationally. If you really think this is about launching a fourth national weather network to compete with the Weather Channel — with the same dismal results as Fox Weather and WeatherNation, then I have an ugly DETROIT sign to s...

Agreed, but it’s a slippery slope that will lead to bad places for Sinclair stations

WLNS promoted eclipse watch parties in Jackson and Lansing. However they angered many people by promising and not purchasing enough glasses. Viewers were upset when they went to the parks to be told there were no more free glasses. Yet, the station posted pictures of them handing out glasses to its ...

Scripps’ management “team” emailed its spin following its town hall meetings with Adam, trying to calm fears. Instead it’s doing the exact opposite. https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2024/4/9/questions-answered-by-scripps As it states in the email, Scripps is looking to potentially sell its stations...

CBS announced it will launch a new “weather unit”: https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/cbs-news-weather-coverage-wendy-fisher-1235962955/amp/ This comes at a time when CBS has announced significant layoffs across all its divisions. It feels like this announcement is a cover for potential hubbing of wea...

Reread the statement from Sinclair. You are correct that it will start off with translation. Sinclair had every opportunity to say they are going to limit it to translation. However they didn’t. Why? Because they absolutely have no intention of stopping there. They have a work group specifically loo...

Bucking concerns expressed by most major broadcasters, Sinclair essentially says F-it, we can save a buck by using generative AI to produce news programming. https://www.tvtechnology.com/news/sinclair-begins-generative-ai-usage Sinclair says all the right things… that it wants to ensure accuracy, th...

Can’t a person of color or a woman catch a break at Sinclair?

https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2024/ ... e-anything

Sinclair remains stuck in the 1960s model of corporate governance— non-white men need not apply.

And sometimes it’s just best to not post your private dance videos to the web-ernets.

It’s one of the things I most admire about you, organman — that you keep your private dance videos, um, private.