What do ABC, NBC, and CBS think of Sinclair?

Well?

They should rip the network logo off the Sinclair stations. It’s bad for business.

With out the national brands attached, they are a tin can operation.

The networks need to answer for this garbage propaganda.

It's about money. Local stations don't have money to spend and maybe the networks themselves contract with services to provide content because it's cheaper. Years ago that's how the wire services like the AP, Reuters and the UPI got their start. A lot of local newspapers got content from the AP wire. Still do. That's why it's worth paying attention to who owns the AP and how they gather news and the editorial policies and the slant. AP was veering toward the Right for a while but seem to be going after Trump now.

Yeah but they don’t have to do business with them. There are other buyers/liscensees that the cab affiliate with

If I were the nation brands, I wouldn’t be associated with these people. It’s bad for business and a recipie for boycotts

Nobody wants to hear nra tv. Get Hogg!

The channels don’t say Sinclair. They say abc.. cbs..etc.

The buck stops with them.

This is what they do in Russia, by the way. Are we still sovereign?

They're called an affiliates and it's far more complicated than you folks think. Dropping an affiliate is a contract issue and may leave a network without a channel in a market.

Not that complicated compared to ruining your brand and public trust.

Trumpism is ruining everything..please everyone vote in November.

This shit is really sinister. The networks need to distance themselves or they can go down with the ship.

Sure, it is, r11. Sinclair bought Tribune and is one of the larger affiliates.

When you get in bed with thugs you pay the price.

They don’t have to renew these contacts. People are going to see the network brand. That is not good for shareholders. Tell them how complicated it is.

I always wanted their dinosaur.

Kellyann conway does the weather and drops in bits about Obama’s Kenyan birth and Muslim devotion.

Here's the thing. How valuable is network news these days? Who watches local news? I go online every day to the local station to see who got killed and the traffic and weather reports. I like to keep up with sports and business news too That's it. I get all my national news online from reputable sources, and from cable, like CNN & MSNBC. I never watch network news shows. I think viewing habits have changed so much that network news shows are dinosaurs. Sinclair by virtue of it's inherent biases, is behind the times from a technology perspective.

R16, affiliates own the frequencies. Have you figured out what the network will do to get back on the air?

Whatever it takes.

Link r20?

ABC is dead to me.

Does Disney really need this headache?

If your anchor was in that Deadspin video they should be hounded with tomatoes and heads of lettuce tossed at them. Into the stocks in the town's square! For serious. What an embarrassment. They can never be trusted again.

Disney? Do any of us need this? It’s total fascism now.

R22, seriously???? That's how affiliates work whether it's Sinclair or another. Liscenses are auctioned off in the various markets. Affiliates buy the licenses.

That's why I'm getting a kick out of all you in this thread. Most of you have no idea how things work.

R27 is correct. Affiliates are not at the beck and call of the network. That’s not how this works.

Wow, it’s almost like OP WANTS us to blame the networks for this.

But why? 🤔

Link?

So ABC has zero say-so on a channel with its logo. They have no rights and no way to sever the relationship with thugs?

Gonna have to see a link on that.

So I can take ABC’s or NBC’s logo and do anything I want with it? There’s nothing they can do?

Not buying that for a second.

We’ll wait for the link.

Once Sinclair completes the purchase of Tribune, they are going to have massive coverage across the US - they may not even want or need NBC, ABC, or CBS network affiliations. They could just develop their own network.

R31 and r32 your ignorance knows no bounds. What you want to see is the agreement signed between the two which lays out the parameters of the relationship and not a link on the Internet.

R32, can YOU do anything with anyone's logo? Nope, you can't. Unless you have some sort of contract that were not aware of and that you're not telling is about.

I should have done this in one post...

R34, starting your own network means either buying or developing your own content, which can be done, but it's expensive. Affiliation may be more profitable for them.

R35, everyone is in the business today of developing their own content. Look at Netflix - they are shifting their entire business model into their own content.

Networks have a very different business model than Netflix, r36. Netflix is based on a subscriber model. I think the last "network" to form in the way you are describing was Fox and that's 25...30... years old.

And, there is also some feeling that the way Netflix is handling content isn't sustainable, which is why even they started to go the cheap, reality show route.

OP is the simpleton who can’t fathom the affiliate-network relationship. This is some sort of troll on a tear.

I watch a few shows on my local CBS and Fox networks, which are owned by those turds, Sinclair

I have yet to see any sort of "messaging" or their propaganda during primetime.

I'm glad, too. I obviously dont watch those local news broadcasts. Woe be unto them the minute I see some right-wing shit while I watch BIg Bang Theory and Young Sheldon. I would immediately contact CBS and give them what for.

The affiliates are still the most powerful people in television.