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Salon
January 17, 2018
But the company's bold move of going to air with the anti-Kerry hit piece, which had already been rejected by the major networks, sparked a firestorm. More than 100 Democrats in Congress asked the FCC to step in and review Sinclair's decision. The Democratic National Committee filed a formal complaintÃâà...
InsideSources
October 19, 2017
Through letters to the FCC by dozens of members of Congress asking the chairman to investigate Sinclair for “anti-Kerry propaganda,” along with added pressure from a Democratic FCC Commissioner and from the Kerry campaign itself, Democrats succeeded in getting Sinclair to only release a shortenedÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
October 17, 2017
Sinclair Broadcast Group is looking to shed some TV stations as it awaits FCC approval of its $3.9 billion purchase of Tribune Media and its 33 stations. (William Thomas Cain / Getty Images). lex Sherman, Todd Shields and Anousha SakouiBloomberg. Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. received bids for as many as 10 televisionÃâà...
Broadcasting & Cable
October 13, 2017
Sinclair Broadcast Group continues to take plenty of flak for its effort to buy Tribune Media's 42 stations in a deal valued at $3.9 billion. This week it came in various new forms highlighted by the Coalition to Save Local Media, a group of deal critics that includes cable and satellite operators. Among theÃâà...
The Hill
October 12, 2017
I worry that as we focus on Russian bots on Twitter influencing elections, we're ignoring a bigger threat to democracy and the political process right here at home: the proposed merger of Sinclair Broadcast Group with Tribune Media Company. I have learned, sometimes the hard way, that in politics, littleÃâà...
HuffPost
September 6, 2017
The company nevertheless fired its Washington bureau chief after he publicly said that plans to air the anti-Kerry film were 'indefensible.' During the midterm elections of 2010, Sinclair distributed to its stations an infomercial paid for by the National Republican Trust PAC, that called President Obama aÃâà...
Vox
May 15, 2017
Reports claimed that the company planned to force all of its stations to air, just a few days before the general election, an anti-Kerry documentary called Stolen Honor, which questioned Kerry's conduct during the Vietnam War. New York Times television critic Alessandra Stanley described the documentaryÃâà...
