Sinclair Broadcast Group

The Sinclair Broadcast Group (SBG ) is the operator of the largest TV - station chain in the U.S., a total of 62 TV stations in over 39 markets. Radiations of the SBG can be received by 24 % of American households. The company is based in Hunt Valley in the U.S. state of Maryland.

Overview

SBG is often compared with the radio conglomerate Clear Channel Communications, which holds a similar position in the radio market. Critics accuse the SBG before a conservative point of view. SBG was founded in 1971 by Julian Smith. Currently the company by CEO David Smith and three other sons of the company founder is performed.

The SBG owns TV stations all major networks, the largest number (20 ) belong to the FOX Network.

The SBG was 2004, two times in public criticism. In April 2004, when the group decided that it would not be allowed eight ABC stations the group broadcast an episode of ABC's Nightline, which paid tribute to the hitherto fallen soldiers in the Iraq war. The group announced that the decision had been made since the program obviously pursuing political motives, and the successes of the United States under wander in Iraq. With this decision, SBG criticism from both sides of the political spectrum moved to. In October 2004, UBS had all the 62 stations of the group, a time slot in prime time for the documentation Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal vacate. The film is made up, only 2 weeks before the U.S. presidential election, a critical look at the commitment of the U.S. presidential candidate John Kerry in the antiwar movement and, among other things viewed through his association with the group Swiftboat Veterans for Truth by many critics as politically - influenced. The Democratic National Committee (DNC) filed a complaint with the U.S. Securities and Markets Authority FEC that this, however, rejected. Many groups and individuals, among others, filmmaker Michael Moore, offered the SBG partially free footage to that in terms of a contrast program to Kerry documentation could be broadcast. This includes, inter alia, the documentation Fahrenheit 9/11 and Going Upriver.