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FCC approves transfer of five TV station licenses to Sinclair

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FCC approves transfer of five TV station licenses to Sinclair

The FCC approved five broadcast TV license transfers to Sinclair, creating duopolies in markets where it already operated stations.
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Previously these stations licenses were from Cunningham and Roberts Media prior to Sinclair getting direct control of those stations.

The stations give Sinclair an actual duopoly in each affected market — Eugene, Eureka, Chico-Redding, Portland-Auburn and the Tri-Cities area of Virginia and Tennessee — where the broadcaster owns at least one major network affiliate and previously operated another on behalf of another company.

In Eugene, Sinclair will acquire KMTR (Channel 16, NBC and CW Network) from Roberts Media. The other four stations — WEMT (Channel 39) in Tennessee, KCVU (Channel 20) in Chico-Redding, KBVU (Channel 28) in Eureka and WPFO (Channel 23) in Portland-Auburn — were licensed to Cunningham Broadcasting, which allows Sinclair to operate nearly all of its stations through local marketing agreements.
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Can confirm Portland, ME, as I was just there. The ads and corner bug still said "FOX 23". Under that was "WGME-TV 13-2". Sinclair owns channel 13 (CBS) already.

Is this similar to WLNE-TV (ABC) channel 6 New Bedford/Providence moving to WJAR-TV (NBC) channel 10 Providence recently?
 


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