Showing 16 - 26 of 26 articles tagged "Sinclair Broadcasting"

• Posted Monday 7/16/18 at 8:37PM EDT

  Sinclair Broadcasting's $3.9 billion takeover of Tribune Media's TV stations looks all but dead

  The proposed deal to make the country's largest owner of TV stations even bigger, expanding its reach to nearly three-quarters...

• Posted Tuesday 7/10/18 at 11:58PM EDT

  Sinclair Broadcasting is said to be planning to launch a streaming TV service to rival Fox News

  The largest owner of local TV stations in the nation had previously denied that it wanted to creative a national...

• Posted Tuesday 4/10/18 at 7:15PM EDT

  Sinclair creates a video accusing CNN of being hypocritical

  A link at the top of every local Sinclair Broadcasting station's website goes to a YouTube video that asks the...

• Posted Monday 4/09/18 at 11:33PM EDT

  Creator of Deadspin's viral Sinclair video worries he may have bolstered the company's message

  Millions of people watched the viral video created by Deadspin video director Timothy Burke, showing anchors from around the country...

• Posted Friday 4/06/18 at 2:28PM EDT

  An anti-Sinclair ad featuring Deadspin's viral video is scheduled to air on Sinclair stations this weekend

  Washington-based consumer advocacy group Allied Progress plans to run the ads during the 4  a.

• Posted Thursday 4/05/18 at 6:37PM EDT

  Amy Schumer cancels an interview with a Sinclair-owned station over "fake news" promos controversy

  Schumer was scheduled to sit down with ABC's Washington, D.

• Posted Thursday 4/05/18 at 12:48AM EDT

  Sinclair boss defends having local news anchors read scripted statements: “You cant be serious!”

  “Do you understand that as a practical matter every word that comes out of the mouths of network news people...

• Posted Monday 4/02/18 at 9:00PM EDT

  Dan Rather calls Sinclair news anchors reading the same script "propaganda" and "Orwellian"

  The former CBS News anchor was reacting to Deadspin's viral video, which has been viewed more than 10 million times...

• Posted Monday 4/02/18 at 2:55PM EDT

  Sinclair Broadcasting fires back at “misleading, often defamatory stories”

  Sinclair senior vice president Scott Livingston responded to the uproar surrounding Deadspin's viral video of anchors throughout the country reading...

• Posted Monday 4/02/18 at 9:51AM EDT

  Jimmy Kimmel slams Sinclair Broadcasting Group -- owner of numerous ABC affiliates -- for forcing local anchors to bash the media

  Kimmel tweeted out a link to a viral Deadspin video that showed Sinclair's local anchors eerily reading the same media-bashing...

• Posted Wednesday 10/25/17 at 1:54PM EDT

  21st Century Fox CEO James Murdoch says Bill O’Reilly’s reported $32 million settlement was “news to me”

  "The settlement wasn't a company settlement, and it was news to me when we saw that number the other day,"...