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SINCLAIR SELLS ANOTHER STATION IN SPRINGFIELD, MA

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to James Gormally for $21.5 million. What other unprofitable stations that Sinclair could be selling next? Sinclair still owns CBS affilates that had been owned by Guy Gannett Communications in Portland, ME & Cedar Rapids, & ABC stations in Champaign/Decatur & Springfield, IL. & those stations should likely be selling next. Sinclair stations that are affiliated with ABC in Greenville/Asheville, Columbus, OH, Mobile/Pensacola & Charleston, W.V. all have duopolies & wouldn't be selling their stations anytime soon, unless they want. But I think Sinclair will focus more on stations that are either affilated with Fox, CW & the My Network, but it won't signal the end of the group. But stay tuned...
 
dgendvil said:
to James Gormally for $21.5 million. What other unprofitable stations that Sinclair could be selling next? Sinclair still owns CBS affilates that had been owned by Guy Gannett Communications in Portland, ME & Cedar Rapids, & ABC stations in Champaign/Decatur & Springfield, IL. & those stations should likely be selling next. Sinclair stations that are affiliated with ABC in Greenville/Asheville, Columbus, OH, Mobile/Pensacola & Charleston, W.V. all have duopolies & wouldn't be selling their stations anytime soon, unless they want. But I think Sinclair will focus more on stations that are either affilated with Fox, CW & the My Network, but it won't signal the end of the group. But stay tuned...
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The new owner of WGGB-TV 40 is a Springfield-area magazine publisher, which brings back local ownership in that market for the first time in many years - I think since WWLP 22 was sold to Benedek about 10 years ago.

Link: Springfield Republican
 
Don't hate me for saying this, but local ownership of a network affiliate in a small market like Springfield may not be such a great idea. He may be willing to spend more money on the station locally, but may also have less of it to spend than a comapny like Sinclair.
 
WWLP-TV (NBC) channel 22 of Springfield, MA is owned by LIN Television, the same owners as WTNH-TV (ABC) channel 8 and WCTX-TV (MY) channel 59, both of New Haven, CT.
 
Please Sinclair - Sell KDNL in St. Louis! ABC affiliate with no likely hope for a duoply. A couple of nights ago they were preempting prime-time programming to show Infomercials.
 
Anytime they'll pre-empt a show not because of sexual content or explicit language (or in that case, when Saving Private Ryan is on the schedule), they'll do it anyway.
 
Garrett said:
Don't hate me for saying this, but local ownership of a network affiliate in a small market like Springfield may not be such a great idea. He may be willing to spend more money on the station locally, but may also have less of it to spend than a comapny like Sinclair.
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Have you seen Channel 40? There is nowhere to go but up for that station.
 
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