Two pieces on Awful Announcing showing the highs and lows of this deal: Sean Keeley (deriving from Dade Hayes of Deadline and John Ourand of the paywalled Sports Business Journal) noted Sinclair stock soared after the announcement, but that the new owner likely will seek to make the bucks back through higher distributor fees...
https://awfulannouncing.com/local-networks/sinclair-stock-soars-after-fox-rsn-purchase.html (link) ...and Andrew Bucholtz (quoting a stock analyst interviewed by Ourand) additionally noting the dilemma of basic-or-premium for the channels, either side of which potentially would cost the channels and their carriers longterm... https://awfulannouncing.com/local-networks/analyst-rsns-best-scenario-losing-half-distribution.html (link) <https://awfulannouncing.com/local-networks/analyst-rsns-best-scenario-losing-half-distribution.html> B -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/40cb6ed0-13ff-4aa7-9e0a-83831398b89f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
