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Fox to Test News Highlight Show

By Kevin Eck on May. 31, 2016 - 10:18 AM

"The millennial voice and text is what we expect now from bite-sized news sources we find online and on mobile."

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CBS Affiliates | TV Biz

Sinclair Names GM of Texas Station

By Kevin Eck on Nov. 16, 2015 - 4:46 PM

“It is an honor to serve as General Manager for KGBT-TV, a station with rich history in the Rio Grande Valley, and a station I grew up watching,” said Deicla.

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Sinclair Invests in Programmatic Advertising Startup

By Kevin Eck on Jun. 10, 2015 - 10:01 AM

“Local businesses are starting to embrace the power of Big Data and programmatic media buying in a big way and this has led to an explosion of growth in our industry since the beginning of 2015,” said Rob Weisbord, Sinclair’ ...

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NBC Affiliates | ShopTalk

WNWO’s New Management Team Wants Employees to ‘Walk With a New Swagger’

By Kevin Eck on Jun. 6, 2014 - 9:29 AM

In April, we reported that Sinclair Broadcasting had moved five managers from WPTA in Fort Wayne, IN, to Toledo NBC affiliate WNWO. John Nizamis, who took over for Chris Topf as GM at WNWO, told the The Toledo Free Press, the newc ...

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Sinclair Broadcasting Forming PAC

By Kevin Eck on May. 7, 2014 - 4:23 PM

Sinclair Broadcasting is forming a PAC. According to The Hill, Rebecca Hanson, Sinclair SVP of policy and strategy said the station group will use the political action committee “as it works out issues in front of Congress a ...

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NBC Affiliates | ShopTalk | TV Biz

Sinclair Calls Buckeye Cable’s Retrans Attack Ads ‘Silly Antics’

By Kevin Eck on Dec. 24, 2013 - 11:15 AM

Buckeye Cablesystem seems to be waging a very public battle against Sinclair Broadcasting in a fight over retrans fees for Sinclair’s NBC station WNWO. The saga began when Sinclair pulled its newly acquired station off the O ...

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NBC Affiliates | ShopTalk | TV Biz

Sinclair Pulls WNWO from Buckeye Cable Over Retrans Fees

By Kevin Eck on Dec. 17, 2013 - 10:20 AM

Toledo newspaper The Blade is reporting Sinclair Broadcast Group group told Buckeye CableSystem to pull the signal of its newly acquired NBC affiliate WNWO off the cable system after their previous retransmission consent contract ...

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Sinclair, Newport Television Close Seven-Station Deal

By Merrill Knox on Dec. 3, 2012 - 3:52 PM

Sinclair Broadcasting officially takes the reins today at six stations it acquired from Newport Television: WKRC in Cincinnati, WOAI in San Antonio, WHP in Harrisburg-Lancaster, WPMI and WJTC in Mobile and KSAS in Wichita. Sinclai ...

Cox Media Group Selling, Adding Stations

By Merrill Knox on Jul. 20, 2012 - 2:32 PM

In an effort to focus on larger markets, Cox Media Group has announced that it is selling four of the stations it currently owns and buying four stations from Newport Television. The stations being sold are KFOX in El Paso, WJAC i ...

Sinclair Broadcasting, Insight Cable Fighting Over Carriage Agreement Extension

By Merrill Knox on Nov. 21, 2011 - 5:12 PM

Sinclair Broadcasting and Insight Cable are facing down a December 31 deadline to renegotiate their existing carriage agreement. If a deal is not reached by December 31, Sinclair-owned stations that are carried by Insight Cable wi ...

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