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Stations New to Broadcasting "Behind the Headlines with Mark Hyman"

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Mario500

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Have any more stations affiliated with the Sinclair Broadcast Group broadcast "Behind the Headlines with Mark Hyman" for the first time recently? Here is an article about one station in the Mobile, Alabama-Pensacola, Florida that did so recently (even though WEAR-TV in Pensacola, Florida was broadcasting "Behind the Headlines with Mark Hyman" on a regular basis in the past):

"WPMI-TV broadcasts corporate commentary segment"
 
Sinclair has 2 stations here, but I have not seen it since they quit
producing their own newscasts.
 
Sinclair has been the only option for Pensacola TV news for damn near 20 years so I watch most every day. I've never seen this segment. I do recall some Sinclair produced segment being inserted in the newscast about a decade ago. It was completely out of place/context with the rest of the newscast and stuck out. Sinclair's WTWC NBC 40 in Tallahassee still had a local newscast at that time and the same segment was carried there too.
 
I thought that Sinclair learned their lesson from the whole NewsCentral fiasco, when they shoved Hyman's commentaries down the throats of all their stations, even when it obviously did not fit. Right-wing propaganda seems out of place on a typical CW affiliate, and looks even more stupid when some of their news operations are known to be a pathetic joke (and some of their major network affiliates don't even have a news division!). Is Sinclair starting to pander to Hyman's narcissism once again? Doing so would be a stupid idea. Especially when many of their stations target women, children and minorities who aren't going to be swayed by some corporate idiot with no credibility trying to do FOX News Lite. And considering that the last time they did this, irate viewers and advertisers retaliated and drove down their stock price. NewsCentral and Hyman's antics even destroyed a few of their news divisions.

At a time when Sinclair is blatantly bending the FCC rules on station ownership and is seeking to buy more and more stations, the whole Hyman business could come back to bite them in the behinds if they're actually thinking of doing it again. People still remember the last time.
 
FightingIrish, I understand you do not like Mark Hyman, but there was no need to call him a "corporate idiot". Imagine how you would feel if someone were to call you or a relative an "idiot" in a public setting such as a message board on the Internet.
 
Mario-500 said:
FightingIrish, I understand you do not like Mark Hyman, but there was no need to call him a "corporate idiot". Imagine how you would feel if someone were to call you or a relative an "idiot" in a public setting such as a message board on the Internet.
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Well, neither myself nor any of my relatives use a nationwide televised bully pulpit to insult people and act like a jerk. And we certainly wouldn't use said bully pulpit to feed our own egos at the potential cost of common sense business practices. And if I did, they can call me whatever they want. Those who live by the sword shall inevitably perish by it.

And are you really telling people not to criticize public, polarizing people on message boards? I wish you the best of luck with that.
 
^I was actually suggesting you do not call people names like "idiot".
 
FightingIrish said:
I thought that Sinclair learned their lesson from the whole NewsCentral fiasco, when they shoved Hyman's commentaries down the throats of all their stations, even when it obviously did not fit. Right-wing propaganda seems out of place on a typical CW affiliate,
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I'm guessing you aren't old enough to remember the 1960's and 70's, when local station managers regularly
made their views known in on-air editorials. Some of them were quite off-the-wall and "out there".
I recall one guy who actually thought that shooting the President wasn't such a bad idea if his job performance
was really poor!!
 
When Hyman aired on my Sinclair station, I probably did what either most did; nodded along and understood it was his opinion, or just ignored it for a topic I was disinterested in and tuned it out like their 20 other commercials for a local car dealership. I'm pretty sure the news staff didn't care unless they had to pass along the dial-a-poll results because it added thirty seconds on they could be doing something else.

Really, compared to many of the talk show hosts out there, I prefer my commentating to be squashed down to 90 seconds. It's more concise, gets it out of the way faster and my time investment is little if I disagree with the opinion. I'm much more annoyed by Sinclair's love of Armstrong Williams with his half-hour show than I ever will be Mark Hyman's opinions.
 
Mario-500 said:
^I was actually suggesting you do not call people names like "idiot".
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Mario, Hyman has made himself a public figure and he is therefore fair game for anyone to insult him. It's no different than calling Obama irrational.
It would be wrong for any of us to call you out even though your comments are opening the door for insults.
Think for a minute before trying to referee a conversation between adults that know more about this topic than either of us.

No reply necessary.
 
mrschimpf said:
When Hyman aired on my Sinclair station, I probably did what either most did; nodded along and understood it was his opinion, or just ignored it for a topic I was disinterested in and tuned it out like their 20 other commercials for a local car dealership. I'm pretty sure the news staff didn't care unless they had to pass along the dial-a-poll results because it added thirty seconds on they could be doing something else.

Really, compared to many of the talk show hosts out there, I prefer my commentating to be squashed down to 90 seconds. It's more concise, gets it out of the way faster and my time investment is little if I disagree with the opinion. I'm much more annoyed by Sinclair's love of Armstrong Williams with his half-hour show than I ever will be Mark Hyman's opinions.
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The difference is the Hyman editorials usually come after newscasts (or, on non-news stations, sitcom reruns). The Armstrong Williams show, while still a Sinclair-mandated show, is usually placed wherever the station wants to run it. Many Sinclair stations air it in the late night hours late Saturday/early Sunday, normally sandwiched between infomercials ("lesser-viewed" time periods).
 
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