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One media giant is monopolizing the entire local TV market


               
2013 Dec 10, 1:18pm   798 views  4 comments

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Have you ever heard of Sinclair Broadcast Group? Well, if you haven't, you probably should, especially considering it's the company that likely owns your local news station. Sinclair is the telecommunications corporation that operates the largest number of local television stations in the United States. But as the stations consolidate into the same company, so does their content, thereby eliminating competition in the market. So how does Sinclair get away with this? RT's Ameera David reports.

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1   Bellingham Bill   2013 Dec 10, 3:38pm  

"Sinclair gained further notoriety by ordering its 62 local stations to preempt prime time programming to broadcast an anti-Kerry film just before the November 2, 2004 general election. Those 62 stations include affiliates of all six major commercial broadcast networks in the swing states of Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin, Nevada and Pennsylvania. "

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sinclair_Broadcast_Group

welcome to the future.

"Based in part on his experiences as a corporate lawyer and as a representative for the tobacco industry with the Virginia legislature, he wrote the Powell Memorandum to a friend at the US Chamber of Commerce. The memo called for corporate America to become more aggressive in molding politics and law in the US "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_F._Powell,_Jr.#Powell_Memorandum

Ironic that RT -- "Russia Today" -- is running this.

American people are going to have collectively gain around 15 IQ points pretty soon or this is going to get a lot worse before it gets any better.

2   Tenpoundbass   2013 Dec 10, 10:16pm  

They don't own FOX.

3   marcus   2013 Dec 10, 10:22pm  

CaptainShuddup says

They don't own FOX.

True, but between Fox and Sinclair and the talk radio biggies, you might want to lower your high grade patnet commentator opinion of the degree to which liberals control the media.

4   Tenpoundbass   2013 Dec 10, 10:47pm  

Again FOX is the lone bastion albeit on Cable or OTA.

Besides what in the hell are you guys worried about?
I'm the only person that I know, who ditched cable and watch OTA television.

Everyone else is afraid they'll miss a Dolphins game, or some lame ass Heat game.

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