Developing: Mediacom pulls plug on Sinclair

[country103]

For the last two months I have been following the dispute between Mediacom cable and Sinclair Broadcasting for WUCW. Early this morning I received notification that Mediacom, effective midnight January 6th, has pulled the plug on 22 Sinclair-owned stations. The markets affected include the following:
Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Peoria-Bloomington, Nashville, Madison, Minneapolis, Birmingham, Milwaukee, Springfield-Champaign-Decatur, Saint Louis, Asheville, Cape Girardeau, and Talahassee.
As of right now Mediacom is attempting to replace stations affected, with alternate programming.

WUCW has been replaced with a free preview of starz kids & family

they are playing a crawl telling people about the problems

More to come as information develops.

go to http://www.befairsinclair.com for more info

 

[genius]

Not only does Sinclair still face a possible antitrust lawsuit, but Comcast could yank 30 more stations within the next month.

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6404747.html?display=Breaking+News

This is what happens to companies who spew constant garbage and are cheap. Sinclair gave their stations a travesty of a newscast. They forgot that bias=layoffs. The day Sinclair, Nexstar, and other miserable broadcasting companies fall will be a great day for those stations owned by them...until the next crappy broadcasting group comes along.