BNET Industries
Market Cap:$182.3M
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$754.4M
- Public
- US
Dow Jones Description
Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. is one of the largest and most diversified television broadcasting companies in the country today. Sinclair owns and operates, programs, or provides sales services to 58 television stations in 35 markets. Sinclair's television group includes 20 FOX, 17 MyTV, 9 ABC, 9 CW, 2 CBS and 1 NBC affiliates and reaches approximately 22% of all U.S. television households. Sinclair, either directly or through its Ventures subsidiary, makes equity investments in strategic companies. Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. was founded in 1986, went public in 1995 and is traded on the Nasdaq Exchange under the ticker symbol SBGI.
Number of Employees 2,500
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Radio Stations: 515112
Recent Events
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Time Warner customers could lose FX, other channels
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Fox, cable fight sounds like a rerun
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Sinclair Broadcast Group Appoints Rob Weisboard As Director, Audra Swain As General Manager - Quick...
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Sinclair Names Audra Swain General Manager of KVMY-TV and KVCW-TV in Las Vegas, NV
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Sinclair Names Rob Weisbord Director of Digital Interactive Marketing
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Reports Third Quarter 2009 Results
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Financing & Caps: Gannett, Sinclair raise $1B in debt financing
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Sinclair expects to beat earlier Q3 sales projections
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$$ Sign Up For Our Free Newsletter!!! $$ (NASDAQ: SBGI) Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc., (OTCBB:...
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Sinclair Names Tom Humpage General Manager of WGME-TV in Portland, Maine
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Reports Second Quarter 2009 Results
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Sinclair, owner of channels 18, 24, works to avoid bankruptcy
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Sinclair to Report Second Quarter 2009 Results on August 5, 2009
News & Analysis
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Iowa Congressional Delegation Urges Mediacom and Sinclair to Begin Binding Arbitration
- 2007-01-11
MIDDLETOWN, N.Y. -- This morning, the Iowa Congressional Delegation sent a letter to Mediacom Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: MCCC) and Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: SBGI). In the letter, Senators Grassley and Harkin and Congressmen Boswell, Braley, King, Latham and Loebsack directed the parties as follows: Given that...
Mediacom Communications Secures Extension for Continued Carriage of Sinclair Stations
- 2006-12-01
MIDDLETOWN, N.Y. -- MEDIACOM COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION (NASDAQ: MCCC) announced today that it reached an agreement with Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: SBGI) for the continued carriage of their local television stations on Mediacom's channel line-up until January 5, 2007. This will allow negotiations to continue in order for both parties...
This Just In.
- 2006-10-02
By Staff "10 Items" Added to TBS"s Late-Night Cart Staff Atlanta - TBS will put the first brick in place for its late-night block of originals on Nov. 27 at 11 p.m. with the...
A News War Brews.(news broadcasters market)
- 2006-03-27
By Staff Stations jostle for the top in fierce battle over ratings There's more than beer brewing in Milwaukee. Local TV stations are in a fierce battle, with no clear winner. Perennial news leader WTMJ, a Journal Broadcasting-owned...
The Week; Group calls for ad ban of junk-food.(Briefs)
- 2005-01-10
The Center for Science in the Public Interest unveiled proposed food-marketing guidelines that would dramatically limit marketing to kids and urged TV networks, food marketers and movie companies to implement the limits. The group, which has focused on kids 12 and under, targeted the guidelines to...
Carolina activists challenge licenses for conservative Sinclair TV stations.
- 2004-11-03
By David Ranii, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 3--A nonprofit public interest group has challenged the broadcast license renewals of Sinclair Broadcast Group television stations in North and South Carolina, including two in the Triangle. ...
Hunt Valley, Md.-based Sinclair Broadcasting takes heat for anti-Kerry show.
- 2004-10-24
By Andrea K. Walker, The Baltimore Sun Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 24--Its controversial program about political documentaries is behind it, but the political ramifications for Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. likely aren't over. Sinclair, one of the largest independent...
Impact of 'Nightline' debated
- 2004-05-02
NEW YORK -- Long after ABC's controversial "Nightline" broadcast had ended late Friday night, new acquaintances Jen Kelly and Abby Gold stood amid the swirl of Times Square, still bustling after midnight, and talked about Iraq. Kelly, 27, an artist, had come from her nearby studio just to...
'Nightline' show blocked in 8 cities
- 2004-04-30
Sinclair Broadcast Group, one of the largest owners of local television stations, will pre-empt tonight's edition of the ABC News program "Nightline," saying the program's plan to have Ted Koppel read aloud the names of every soldier killed by hostile fire in Iraq was motivated by an anti-war agenda...
Baltimore-Based Broadcaster Seek to Buy Charleston, S.C., Fox Affiliate.
- 2003-06-04
By John P. McDermott, The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 4--A Baltimore-based broadcaster that owns a television station in the Charleston market expects to move ahead with a long-delayed deal to buy the local Fox affiliate now...
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