If anyone thought Sinclair Broadcast Group might be skittish about future mergers and acquisitions in light of the federal government’s push to shut down the $3.9 billion merger with Tribune Media, think again.
“We are proponents of deregulation, and we are too small of an industry not to be,” Sinclair CEO Chris Ripley remarked this afternoon at the NAB Show in New York.
Ripley, who referred to himself as “a reformed investment banker,” maintained that Sinclair is still focused on consolidation in television, despite pushback from the federal government, which led to Chicago-based
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