Thanks to the FCC, Christmas Comes Early for Pro-Trump Sinclair Broadcast Group
Christmas came early for Sinclair Broadcast Group, the pro-Trump local television goliath.
On Thursday, the Republican-led Federal Communications Commission voted on a series of actions that would eliminate regulations for local media ownership while approving a new TV broadcast standard developed by Sinclair. Both decisions will likely result in a major windfall for the Maryland-based company, paving the way for Sinclair’s proposed $3.9 billion merger with Tribune Media and for the widespread adoption of its Next Gen TV service.
The FCC’s two Democratic commissioners voted against the deregulatory decisions. “We have engaged in a series of media policy changes at this agency that are striking in the one thing that they have in common,” FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, a Democrat, told reporters on Thursday. “They are all custom-built for a company called Sinclair Broadcasting,”
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