Sinclair is playing games with shell corporations and taking advantage of loopholes in media ownership rules with most of these second stations - technically, Sinclair owns one and a company that is only really independent on paper owns the second (90% of WVAH's ownership is in the name of the Sinclair founder's children) but then contracts operation back to Sinclair.
My theory is that they think that the Biden FCC is going to crack down on that sort of arrangement so they're transferring the most profitable affiliations/programming to the stations they own outright before it becomes more obvious that they're stripping the "sidecar" stations for parts. On Sat, Feb 6, 2021 at 9:27 AM Brad Beam <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, I know the what— > > > > *Like other markets, Sinclair has two big-four stations here in town: WCHS > 8-ABC and WVAH 11-Fox. Here in the last week, Fox has shifted to 8.2 while > Decades has been introduced to 11.1 - and the other 8.x and 11.x > subchannels have been reassigned in the air and on the Suddenlink dial. The > poor Tivo programing guide is struggling to keep up.* > > > > *And if you look around the country, other Sinclair duopoly markets are > doing this.* > > > > So... why? > > > > _ _ > > |_>|_> Brad Beam- Belle WV > > |_>|_> http://www.facebook.com/74bmw > > -- > 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/007b01d6fc9c%24a5898840%24f09c98c0%24%40suddenlink.net > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/007b01d6fc9c%24a5898840%24f09c98c0%24%40suddenlink.net?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- David J. Lynch [email protected] -- 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/CAKNcpKgXweLttD2LWq-JW2cN%2B8mAXp3jd3Wv1qcJFxWbsGfx2A%40mail.gmail.com.
