>
> Though not likely, the television arm of 21st Century Fox is considering
> switching its Sinclair affiliates to Ion stations to avoid jacked-up
> retransmission payments resulting from a TribClair merger.
>
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-04/murdoch-s-simmering-feud-with-sin
NY Times took a look at the right-wing agenda of the Sinclair group:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/business/media/sinclair-broadcast-komo-conservative-media.html
Which makes this story from Sinclair-owned KOMO in Seattle that much more
amusing:
http://komonews.com/news/local/man-found-mastu
Yeah, and probably the Chicago expats who are all out of the demo will
probably start calling again for the return of the Cubs, White Sox and Tom
Skilling--and maybe even call for Bozo to come back. Never mind that the
only way that WGNA can still televise local sports is by being a
superstation,
Mark Jeffries, to moi, Monday (8):
>
> And Salon is hinting that what Sinclair really wants besides the
> additional stations is WGN America, which would allow them to convert the
> seemingly-comatose channel that has dropped out of expensive original
> scripted programming into a right-wing ne
And Salon is hinting that what Sinclair really wants besides the additional
stations is WGN America, which would allow them to convert the
seemingly-comatose channel that has dropped out of expensive original
scripted programming into a right-wing news network to compete with
Fox--because in this c
Mark Jeffries, Apr 30th:
>
> As Sinclair Broadcast Group, the nation's largest TV station owner, is
> supposedly kicking the tires of Tribune Broadcasting, 21st Century Fox is
> supposedly hitching up with the Blackstone Group to purchase Trib, in what
> some are saying seems to be an offensive
