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  • Same News, New Channels — A Different Sort of NewsCentral

    Those Google News alerts are occasionally worth something…. Today my alert set for “Sinclair Broadcast Group” brought me this little gem from the PR Newswire, announcing that my local Central Illinois Sinclair-owned stations will now be producing the 9:00 PM nightly news broadcast for the local FOX affiliates, too, which are not owned by Sinclair.…

  • Government Handouts and Playing Hardball with Cable and Satellite Win Big Money for Nexstar & Sinclair

    Nexstar is this year’s Sinclair Broadcast Group — a medium-sized TV station owner getting aggressive about squeezing cash out of stations any way possible. Nexstar isn’t as outwardly political as Sinclair is — there’s no Nexstar equivalent to Mark Hyman‘s The Point — although it recently refused to air NBC’s controversial “Book of Daniel” on…

  • Satellite, Cable and TV Stations Betting Viewers Like Chips in a High-Stakes Gamble

    On last Friday’s radioshow, former WCIA news director Ken Schreiner and I talked about how TV station owners like Nexstar (WCIA’s owner) and Sinclair are trying to suck money out of every stream they can find. These midsize owners leveraged the hell out of themselves in order to buy up stations, and currently aren’t turning…

  • News Headlines from the Sept. 30 Radioshow

    These are the news headlines as read on the Sept. 30 edition of the mediageek radioshow: Legislators Considering Options for Analog TV Spectrum and DTV Deadline; BitTorrent Gets $8.75M in Venture Capital; Iowa Citizens Challenging Sinclair TV License; CPB Elects Republican Activists To Lead Board

  • People Getting Pissed with Sinclair

    I’ve learned that some local Champaign-Urbana activists are planning to picket our local Sinclair station, WICD-TV 15. In addition to Sinclair’s plan to air the anti-Kerry program, the activists also cite the slanted news commentary The Point with Mark Hyman as a key complaint. As I mentioned before, I’ve been watching Sinclair and covering the…

  • The Sinclair Situation: It’s a Matter of Ownership and Exploitation of Resource

    Due to crazy ISP connection problems, I couldn’t post to the blog Monday and Tuesday, so I didn’t have a chance to comment on the whole Sinclair anti-Kerry documentary thing in a more timely manner. A reporter from the daily U of I newspaper called me today for a comment and his first question was,…

  • Champaign-Urbana Alt. Weekly to close — Are these papers sustainable?

    I got word tonight that one of our local alternative weeklies, the (poorly named) Paper, will be closing in two weeks. The Paper is sort of the heir of a previous alternative weekly that started like as The Optimist in 1995 and was killed off by radio giant Saga Communications, which owned it for the…