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The Sinclair Broadcast Group (SBG) is the operator of the largest number of local television stations in the United States with a total of 59 stations across the country in 38 (mostly) small and medium markets. Broadcasts by SBG stations can be received by 24 percent of American households. The company is based in Hunt Valley, Maryland.
Ownership
Though Sinclair became a public company in 1995 and is currently traded on NASDAQ under the symbol SBGI, the Smith family still retains a majority financial interest, and all four Smith brothers serve as executives or directors.
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Baltimore: Spending by auto dealers pushes Sinclair Broadcast Group revenue up http://bit.ly/6Lr9fK
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Spending by auto dealers pushes Sinclair Broadcast Group revenue up - Baltimore Business Journal: http://retwt.me/1Lq50 (via @wimtaylor)
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Spending by auto dealers pushes Sinclair Broadcast Group revenue up - Baltimore Business Journal: http://retwt.me/1Lq50 (via @wimtaylor)
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Boycott Sinclair Broadcast Group - A centralized source for the boycott of SBG's advertisers, as well as related news and developments.
FAIR - Sinclair's Partisan Ploy Cries Out for Equal Time - In an unprecedented move, Sinclair attempts to influence the 2004 presidential election by ordering its stations to preempt regular prime-time broadcasts to air an anti-John Kerry film.
Meta Description: [ October 12, 2004 In an unprecedented move, the Republican-friendly Sinclair Broadcasting company has ordered its 62 television stations to preempt regular prime-time broadcasting to air the anti-John Kerry documentary \ ]
Media Matters - Sinclair's News Central Provides Steady Diet of Pro-Bush, Anti-Progressive News Items - Report on Sinclair purporting news items that deserve public attention and often giving extremely slanted and one-sided attack pieces.
Salon - Sleaze and Smear at Sinclair - States a pair of biased partisan's past behavior confirms their critics' worst suspicions - that Sinclair executives manipulated the company's broadcasting for their own gain, contrary to standard corporate practice, and that an anti-John Kerry film they aired is a wildly misleading hit piece.
Stop Sinclair - Aims to halt the Sinclair Broadcast Group from forcing all its affiliates to preempt regular network broadcasts to air an anti-Kerry documentary just before the 2004 election.
The Nation - Orwellian Twist on the Campaign - Asserts that as George Orwell warned in his book 1984, the actions of Sinclair portray a chilling direction that the US media is headed in.
Meta Description: [ America's oldest and most widely read weekly journal of progressive political and cultural news, opinion and analysis. ]
The Nation - Sinclair's Continued Charade - Despite the outcry from consumers, lawmakers, advertisers, press experts and media watchdog groups, SBG still airs a political attack show as news a week before the November 2004 election.
Meta Description: [ America's oldest and most widely read weekly journal of progressive political and cultural news, opinion and analysis. ]
Truthout - Sinclair Fires Washington Bureau Chief - The Washington bureau chief for Sinclair says he was fired after he criticized the company's plans to produce a news program based on a documentary critical of John Kerry's Vietnam-era anti-war activities.
Meta Description: [ Lets get the Truth Out, changing things for the better through information. ]
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