MURDOCH BROTHERS
Posted on 05/09/2017 6:10:04 AM PDT by KeyLargo
As Fox News Sidles Left, Sinclair Broadcasting Moves In
Broadcasters you likely never heard of are possibly attempting to move in on Fox News and take some of their conservative viewership.
Fox News has potential competition from another right-leaning media network. Sinclair Broadcasting is buying up 42 of Tribune Media’s broadcast stations for nearly $4 billion dollars, raising speculation that the conglomerate is prepared to compete with Fox News for their Republican and Libertarian audience.
With Tribune’s 42 TV stations, Sinclair will cover more than 70 percent of households in the United States. It will become the largest local broadcast owner if regulators let them keep all their stations.
The deal provides Sinclair with seven of the ten biggest markets in the U.S. giving it “unprecedented exposures to the nation’s TV viewers”.
It is believed that the Smith brothers, who own a controlling interest, will steer the coverage to the right.
(Excerpt) Read more at independentsentinel.com ...
MURDOCH BROTHERS
Now all you need is an HONEST, pro-American national newspaper, and you have it....
interesting. Still waiting for Hannity to make a move but the contract thing would take time.
Tribunes’s flagship TV station = WGN.
Here is an excerpt from another story: Right now, when you watch a Tribune station, you get both sides of the story presented in a (sorry, Fox News) fair and balanced way. That likely will not happen with Sinclair because it is a conservative company.
“Tribunes’s flagship TV station = WGN.”
Are you saying that WGN is fair and balanced?
You are kidding - right?
Why can’t a news source stick to reporting the Who, What, When, Where, Why and How of a subject?
Becuse they’re journalists and not reporters.
go ahead and put words in my mouth.
America is past it’s sell date on being great. It has some great elements. And some wicked elements.
A country that has killed over 50 million of it’s unborn simply because they were an inconvenience to their mother/father is not a great country. A country that treats the marriage vow as temporary rather than permanent is not a great country. A country that chooses to institutionalize theft in the form of progressive taxation, social welfare programs and generational theft (20 trillion dollar national debt) is not a great country. A country that glorifies the likes of Kanye West & Kim Kardashian just goes to show you how debased the youth have become. And lest you point figures needlessly at one generation, we could have a lively debate about all the morally bankrupt/destructive celebretards that appealed to the Boomers over the years.
I watch as families break apart, men and women move in together without ever bothering to get married, the majority of millenials calling homosexual unions a good thing, watching how people have warehoused their children in daycare and public schools for other people to raise their children and lament at the spiral downward of manners and civility. And now the culture has shifted to be judgemental against anyone who dares to have a traditonal moral compass. Right is now wrong to a majority of the youth. The youth has become even more wicked. This is a symptom of rot and decay. Thus, not a great country (anymore).
That’s a laugh—and I watch the WGN news regularly. “Both sides”??? They won’t even acknowledge there’s more than one!
These guys wouldn’t know conservative commentary if it hit them like a safe thrown out a window!
You need to have TWO such networks.
Sinclair and (at least) ONE other. The competition will keep them honest. Otherwise, like FOX, the Muslims will buy in and ultimately wreak the place.
Not sure it can be posted on FR, but an image with US coverage is at their website:
http://www.tribunemedia.com/our-brands/tribune-broadcasting/
They seem to have some of each broadcast network [CBS, ABC, NBC, FOX, the CW, MyTV.
Buying up stations with various current network affiliations does not necessarily make for a competitor to FoxNews, unless they convert the stations to all-news (highly unlikely) or offer a 30-minute national/world news (which would seem counter productive).
If they are going to compete with FoxNews (and CNN, MSNBC), they should be looking into cable/satellite. There, they would only have to purchase the use of one channel and develop a full news department for it.
Sinclair just bought Tribune. Give it a chance to change things.
You nailed it with that post! I’m keeping that for reference.
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