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Sinclair Creates Virtual Triopoly in Columbus

By Andrew Gauthier on Mar. 9, 2012 - 10:30 AM

Sinclair Broadcast Group has reportedly inked a shared services agreement to manage Columbus CW-affiliate WWHO, which would give the company a virtual triopoly in the market. Sinclair owns ABC-affiliate WSYX and manages Fox-affili ...

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Tracy McCool Moving to Evenings at WJW

By Merrill Knox on Dec. 14, 2011 - 10:35 AM

Tracy McCool, who has anchored the WJW morning newscast for eight years, has been named the new evening anchor at the Cleveland Fox-affiliate. McCool replaces Stacey Bell, who left WJW last month to move to New Jersey with her hus ...

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 ...

ShopTalk | TV Biz

Ohio Stations Yank Ad Featuring Grandmother

By Andrew Gauthier on Oct. 13, 2011 - 11:59 AM

Thirty TV stations across Ohio have reportedly pulled a political ad off the air over its controversial use of footage featuring a great-grandmother from Cincinnati. 78-year-old Marlene Quinn recently signed on to appear in an ad ...

Former WSYX-WTTE Anchor Testifies as Eyewitness in Homicide Trial of Friend

By Andrew Gauthier on Mar. 25, 2011 - 1:21 PM

Gabe Spiegel, a former anchor with Columbus’s WSYX and WTTE, appeared in court this week to testify in the trial of his friend Edward Scott Miller, who is charged with aggravated vehicular homicide in the death of a bicyclis ...

ABC Affiliates | Mornings | Top 10

Emily Riemer Joins Boston’s WCVB as Morning Anchor-Reporter

By Andrew Gauthier on Mar. 21, 2011 - 4:14 PM

Emily Riemer is joining Boston’s WCVB and will co-anchor the ABC-affiliate’s weekend morning newscasts alongside Steve Lacy. Riemer comes to WCVB from Sinclair duopoloy WSYX–WTTE in Columbus, where she worked as ...

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