Sinclair broadcasting orders local TV stations to read prepared script.

MeAgain · Apr 2, 2018

Local anchors were told to read a message

“I felt like a POW recording a message,” one anchor at a Sinclair-owned station told CNN last month.
Sinclair is also requiring its stations to run segments from Boris Epshteyn, a former advisor to President Donald Trump, who often speaks in support of the White House, the newspaper reported.
In 2016, Jared Kusher, president’s son-in-law and adviser, said the campaign had struck a deal with Sinclair to give the network more access in exchange for running interviews with Trump without commentary, Politico reported.
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Sinclair owns 173 U.S. TV stations.
Sinclair is getting a sweet heart deal from Trump to buy 42 more stations giving it 72% of the U.S. market.

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, named by President Donald Trump in January, is planning to take a new look at the current overall limit on companies owning stations serving no more than 39 percent of U.S. television households.
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My son worked as an engineer for a local TV network (CBS) that was bought out by Sinclair. It went down hill fast. He warned us about their policies about four years ago.Eventually he quit.

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