What is Sinclair up to?

[Brad Beam]

Well, I know the what—

 

Like other markets, Sinclair has two big-four stations here in town: WCHS 8-ABC and WVAH 11-Fox. Here in the last week, Fox has shifted to 8.2 while Decades has been introduced to 11.1 - and the other 8.x and 11.x subchannels have been reassigned in the air and on the Suddenlink dial. The poor Tivo programing guide is struggling to keep up.

 

And if you look around the country, other Sinclair duopoly markets are doing this.

 

So... why?

 

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[Sean Healy]

Is Sinclair repositioning for ATSC 3.0?

In Buffalo, Sinclair's WNYO is suppose to be lighting up on their current RF channel with ATSC 3.0 sometime this Spring.

I assume they'll move MyTV to a WUTV/Fox sub-channel.

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[David Lynch]

Sinclair is playing games with shell corporations and taking advantage of loopholes in media ownership rules with most of these second stations - technically, Sinclair owns one and a company that is only really independent on paper owns the second (90% of WVAH's ownership is in the name of the Sinclair founder's children) but then contracts operation back to Sinclair.

My theory is that they think that the Biden FCC is going to crack down on that sort of arrangement so they're transferring the most profitable affiliations/programming to the stations they own outright before it becomes more obvious that they're stripping the "sidecar" stations for parts.

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