Local TV broadcasting company Sinclair Broadcast Group today announced the launch of a new streaming service called STIRR that aims to bring local TV news and other content to the growing number of cord cutters across the U.S. The company today owns over 190 TV stations, which it’s leveraging in order to create its own […]
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TV broadcaster Sinclair launches STIRR, a free streaming service with local news and sports
Local TV broadcasting company Sinclair Broadcast Group today announced the launch of a new streaming service called STIRR that aims to bring local TV news and other content to the growing number of cord cutters across the U.S. The company today owns over 190 TV stations, which it’s leveraging in order to create its own […]
View More TV broadcaster Sinclair launches STIRR, a free streaming service with local news and sportsFCC issues ‘de facto merger death sentence’ to Sinclair-Tribune deal
A broadcast merger that has been the poster boy for the FCC’s pro-industry agenda has been ordered to undertake a lengthy and potentially embarrassing process that amounts to, in the words of one commissioner, a “de facto merger death sentence.”
View More FCC issues ‘de facto merger death sentence’ to Sinclair-Tribune dealFCC declines to punish Sinclair for its ‘must-run’ segments and scripts
It was hard to avoid seeing the video posted last week showing local news stations reciting a “must-run” script about fake news from their parent company, Sinclair broadcasting, in eerie synchrony. It creeped out a dozen Senators so much that they asked the FCC to look into it — and Chairman Ajit Pai has responded, saying that’s not going to happen.
View More FCC declines to punish Sinclair for its ‘must-run’ segments and scripts