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However, what do you mean by "please the FCC" is up for debate? I thought it was the stations in question that he had license renewals dismissed or denied there for a moment.

 

Because the FCC wants more minorities to own stations, CircleSeven is suggesting that David Smith is partnering with Armstrong Williams to pacify the FCC's demands.

 

 

yes on putting the "Massa David" and "Uncle Tom" comments aside.

 

Sorry to say, but you've done it as well.
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By the way, speaking of Armstrong Williams, he is an author of two or more books (quite find it interesting)

Letters to a young victim: hope and healing in america's inner cities,

Beyond Blame: How we can succeed by breaking the dependency barrier

 

and they are both published in May 1995 and October 1996.

I'm sure Armstrong Williams has the right to do what he wants with the stations with whoever's help he wants. Whether it's so David Smith can "please the FCC" is up for debate.

Can we please put aside the silly "Massa Devil" and "Uncle Tom" comments aside, by the way?

I'm not saying the doesn't have a right, as he has every right to buy any airspace he wants. But I find it better for a person like him to own and run stations under his own stewardship, like DuJuan McCoy or the Roberts Brothers (despite them being in bankruptcy) or any other minority folks, and not becoming a shell game or a guinea pig to those sorry devils in Maryland. If he was for real, I would love to see him buy stations with his own money, without the help of that devil, in a market that doesn't parallel where a Sinclair station is. And he can hire mostly minority folks to run a TV station (you know, each one, teach one). If Armstrong can run a TV station under his own stewardship, without the help of David, then I can say, "Hey, we got ourselves a real deal here". But I can't say that, when I see a pic of Armstrong sitting next to that Monster at the table. He's helping that Monster getting bigger and bigger, and that's all he cares about. And you wonder why I call him an "Uncle Tom"?!!!!! That's my prime reason!!!

 

I'm a go back to what I said back in March on the Local TV thread:

 

So whether we call 'em Sincrap, or Sinturd, or Shitclair, or Cunningrab, Stealfield, Chesapiss or Nexshit or Comcrap (Comcast). Yeah it's probably childish. But it won't stop folks for calling them out their names, just to show their frustration about these groups. But also, it won't stop the companies for doing what they are doing, whether we like it or not. We're just here to state our opinions on whether what they're doing is a either good thing or a bad thing, whether if its the content on the news, programming, internal operations, personnel, etc. etc. etc.

 

So if Nexstar or Sinclair gets one of the stations, and we get news notification, we're not going to do anything else but to bitch about it, the same way we been bitching about both groups buying sprees the last eighteen months. And I think Nexstar started their buying spree before Sinclair started theirs. Remember Nexstar taking the final Gilmore station in Evansville? One month before Sinclair announce the acquisition of the Four Points Media stations.

 

The point is why is Sinclair is shelling out over $1.5B in station trades in the last eighteen months and not spending that same $1.5B investing into the stations they already have? That's why they are called outta their names, even though it may not be an appropriate way to get your point across.

What I was saying on that was, Yes, it's probably childish to call 'em those names Sincrap, Cunningrab & Stealfield. But whether we call them out of their names, it'll probably won't do any good for me to do so, but it won't stop us from complaining anyway. Because every time we hear them strike another deal to acquire another group, we will continue to bitch and moan about it, when there's another deal being struck. And it won't stop Sincrap from doing what they have to/going to do, whether we like it or not. Now let the chips fall where they go, if the company suffer a financial meltdown like Clear Channel, or even worst if they go bankrupt and they have to liquidate? Remember Equity? I would love to see that. The FCC wouldn't have to do those incentive auctions, they'll have all the spectrum they need, and then some.

 

As for me calling Armstrong Williams an "Uncle Tom", it's just as simple as this. I'm not going to sugarcode anything. I'm not going to beat around the bush. I'm not going to tip-toe through the tulips. I call it as I see it. I call a spade a spade. And BTW, I don't find that silly at all. There's nothing to laugh about. He's no better than anybody else. If he joins David to follow his ideology and his philosophy (as both followed that same partisan ideology) to acquire more stations left and right, and he know he's using him as a scapegoat to play shell games, then he's, well he's been an "Uncle Tom", but he will be an "Uncle Tom" to him (which he already is) and a "Yessa Massa" asskisser to him, and he's been that, even before he had that radio talk show. As for that "Massa", I don't just call him that just to be silly, and like I said, I don't find anything I say as silly. As I did start using those names, and some folks would probably assume that I used it just to be silly (which is not the case) or for obvious reasons, I called him "Massa" because I have that strong feeling that he thinks he can be a so-called "Mastermind" of being the largest station group company in the country by acquiring so many stations left and right like Pac-Man, $3B worth is two years time, instead of taking that same $3B of capital to invest into the stations they already own. 94 stations in 23 months. Divested 2 of them since than (WLAJ & WLWC). From Abry/Act III/River City in the 90s, to Four Points/Freedom/Newport/Cox/Barrington/Fisher/Titan/Allbritton in a two year span. How he's going to tackle 92 of those stations once all those sales get closed? How many people in my near neck-of-the-woods in Schaumburg are going to get laid off when Sinclair's secondary offices be form. Are they going to invest on getting the equipment to match most of its stations, especially the bigger market stations like WBFF, WSYX & WKRC and even WJLA? It would probably take more than half of that $3B to match the equipment many of the sister stations have, or buy completely new equipment for all its stations. It's completely asinine to have close to 150 stations, and can't figure what they are going to do from the start. Just plain pitiful.

 

And I almost forgot to say earlier on this thread. We have a new devil. And his name is Robert Allbritton. He had the audacity to sell his father's kingdom, the house that Joe built, to that Devil. I hope that devilish $985M do you well for you for POLITICO. I would've taken a tax liability and would've broke it down anyway. We'll probably never know if ABC made a bid or not, or all the other bidders who bid. If any word comes out that any other group came with an offer. Hearst & Tribune probably was the other major contender. But anybody would've been better than those bastards. I guess devils stick together.

 

In closing, I'm going to say this. I meant every word that I said about both Armstrong Williams and David Smith. They deserve to be called what they need to be called, and I'm not going to backtrack what I said, either. They both need to be held accountable for what they do. Especially that so-called "Mastermind", who think he can have a station in every television market in the country, and not do any heavy capital or infrastructure (He's going to have to do it with the Barrington stations, because only WACH is HD, while the others are not). All he care for is how much revenue money he can vacuum out from those stations. That old man is just plain dumb. But like I said, it doesn't matter whether I call Smith "Massa" or a "Mastermind" or Williams an "Uncle Tom", because that's how I see them for what they are, or if I say Sincrap, Cunningrab, Stealfield, etc., yeah it's childish, but it is my way of showing frustration of those dirty bastards in Maryland. One more time, it doesn't matter if we call them out their names, it won't change what we think of them, and they won't change the way they operate their business, whether we like it or not. It's not going to change us, it's not going to change them. But it will not bode well for David and the rest of the Sinclair clan on the long run, if he continues his crazily two year acquisitive streak, and not doing anything with the stations he already have. I'm not worried about it because someday, those chips will fall really hard on his old ass real quick. And it will be worst than Clear Channel & Equity. And I want to see the fireworks whenever that happens.

 

Now with all of that being said, both fools can take it for what its worth.

 

I would love to see in the future are real minority owners by real minority entrepreneurs that won't become a subject to being a puppet to a massive company like Sincrap. He did it before with Glencairn, and He'll doing it again with Howard Stirk. Do we have to wait until those incentive spectrum auctions to be over until we see more minority ownership? Could a minority owner acquire an allotment of wireless broadband? And the FCC finally considering eliminating the UHF discount. They should've done that on the day the digital transition finalized. Their inactivity has made these station groups doing what they want to do to become these massive Super-Groups. And if they finally allow the cross-ownership where a one owner can own a TV-paper combo, it probably won't matter because many of them have spun off their print media. And it's going to be a next to nothing sell if they're going to end the LMA/JSA/SSAs. So FCC good luck with trying to reform media ownership laws, because its going to tough to get anything done with that matter.

Equity? LMAO. Sinclair is no Equity. Equity tried to create a television empire out of a bunch of rimshot UHF stations and LP TV stations. Sinclair buys prime bandwith.

 

Maybe not all of it is beachfront property, but enough of it is. Equity try to get people to watch a bunch of fuzzy LP TV stations.

 

There is no comparison between the two.

 

Equity? LMAO. Sinclair is no Equity. Equity tried to create a television empire out of a bunch of rimshot UHF stations and LP TV stations. Sinclair buys prime bandwith.

 

Maybe not all of it is beachfront property, but enough of it is. Equity try to get people to watch a bunch of fuzzy LP TV stations.

 

There is no comparison between the two.

 

Yeah, but what if they have a whole mountainous amount of debt and they cannot pay, where else they have to go? There aren't any buyers who would buy in a fire sale, except for the banks. Most firms that bought many of the Equity stations were banks. And some that weren't bought, the FCC canned those stations.

 

The only other option is to sell, and I don't think they can do that. Even given some of the spectrum to the FCC for those wireless firms to use. I don't think that would happen either.

 

 

I'm not saying the doesn't have a right, as he has every right to buy any airspace he wants. But I find it better for a person like him to own and run stations under his own stewardship, like DuJuan McCoy or the Roberts Brothers (despite them being in bankruptcy) or any other minority folks, and not becoming a shell game or a guinea pig to those sorry devils in Maryland. If he was for real, I would love to see him buy stations with his own money, without the help of that devil, in a market that doesn't parallel where a Sinclair station is. And he can hire mostly minority folks to run a TV station (you know, each one, teach one). If Armstrong can run a TV station under his own stewardship, without the help of David, then I can say, "Hey, we got ourselves a real deal here". But I can't say that, when I see a pic of Armstrong sitting next to that Monster at the table. He's helping that Monster getting bigger and bigger, and that's all he cares about. And you wonder why I call him an "Uncle Tom"?!!!!! That's my prime reason!!!

 

I'm a go back to what I said back in March on the Local TV thread:

 

 

What I was saying on that was, Yes, it's probably childish to call 'em those names Sincrap, Cunningrab & Stealfield. But whether we call them out of their names, it'll probably won't do any good for me to do so, but it won't stop us from complaining anyway. Because every time we hear them strike another deal to acquire another group, we will continue to bitch and moan about it, when there's another deal being struck. And it won't stop Sinclair from doing what they have to/going to do, whether we like it or not. Now let the chips fall where they go, if the company suffer a financial meltdown like Clear Channel, or even worst if they go bankrupt and they have to liquidate? Remember Equity? I would love to see that. The FCC wouldn't have to do those incentive auctions, they'll have all the spectrum they need, and then some.

 

As for me calling Armstrong Williams an "Uncle Tom", it's just as simple as this. I'm not going to sugarcode anything. I'm not going to beat around the bush. I'm not going to tip-toe through the tulips. I call it as I see it. I call a spade a spade. And BTW, I don't find that silly at all. There's nothing to laugh about. He's no better than anybody else. If he joins David to follow his ideology and his philosophy (as both followed that same partisan ideology) to acquire more stations left and right, and he know he's using him as a scapegoat to play shell games, then he's, well he's been an "Uncle Tom", but he will be an "Uncle Tom" to him (which he already is) and a "Yessa Massa" asskisser to him, and he's been that, even before he had that radio talk show. As for that "Massa", I don't just call him that just to be silly, and like I said, I don't find anything I say as silly. As I did start using those names, and some folks would probably assume that I used it just to be silly (which is not the case) or for obvious reasons, I called him "Massa" because I have that strong feeling that he thinks he can be a so-called "Mastermind" of being the largest station group company in the country by acquiring so many stations left and right like Pac-Man, $3B worth is two years time, instead of taking that same $3B of capital to invest into the stations they already own. 94 stations in 23 months. Divested 2 of them since than (WLAJ & WLWC). From Abry/Act III/River City in the 90s, to Four Points/Freedom/Newport/Cox/Barrington/Fisher/Titan/Allbritton in a two year span. How he's going to tackle 92 of those stations once all those sales get closed? How many people in my neck-of-the-woods in Schaumburg are going to get laid off when Sinclair's secondary offices be form. Are they going to invest on getting the equipment to match most of its stations, especially the bigger market stations like WBFF, WSYX & WKRC and even WJLA? It would probably take more than half of that $3B to match the equipment many of the sister stations have, or buy completely new equipment for all its stations. It's completely asinine to have close to 150 stations, and can't figure what they are going to do from the start. Just plain pitiful.

 

And I almost forgot to say earlier on this thread. We have a new devil. And his name is Robert Allbritton. He had the audacity to sell his father's kingdom, the house that Joe built, to that Devil. I hope that devilish $985M do you well for you for POLITICO. I would've taken a tax liability and would've broke it down anyway. We'll probably never know if ABC made a bid or not, or all the other bidders who bid. If any word comes out that any other group came with an offer. Hearst & Tribune probably was the other major contender. But anybody would've been better than those bastards. I guess devils stick together.

 

In closing, I'm going to say this. I meant every word that I said about both Armstrong Williams and David Smith. They deserve to be called what they need to be called, and I'm not going to backtrack what I said, either. They both need to be held accountable for what they do. Especially that so-called "Mastermind", who think he can have a station in every television market in the country, and not do any heavy capital or infrastructure (He's going to have to do it with the Barrington stations, because only WACH is HD, while the others are not). All he care for is how much revenue money he can vacuum out from those stations. That old man is just plain dumb. But like I said, it doesn't matter whether I call Smith "Massa" or a "Mastermind" or Williams an "Uncle Tom", because that's how I see them for what they are, or if I say Sincrap, Cunningrab, Stealfield, etc., yeah it's childish, but it is my way of showing frustration of those dirty bastards in Maryland. One more time, it doesn't matter if we call them out their names, it won't change what we think of them, and they won't change the way they operate their business, whether we like it or not. It's not going to change us, it's not going to change them. But it will not bode well for David and the rest of the Sinclair clan on the long run, if he continues his crazily two year acquisitive streak, and not doing anything with the stations he already have. I'm not worried about it because someday, those chips will fall really hard on his old ass real quick. And it will be worst than Clear Channel & Equity. And I want to see the fireworks whenever that happens.

 

Now with all of that being said, both fools can take it for what its worth.

 

I would love to see in the future are real minority owners by real minority entrepreneurs that won't become a subject to being a puppet to a massive company like Sinclair. He did it before with Glencairn, and He'll doing it again with Howard Stirk. Do we have to wait until those incentive spectrum auctions to be over until we see more minority ownership? Could a minority owner acquire an allotment of wireless broadband? And the FCC finally considering eliminating the UHF discount. They should've done that on the day the digital transition finalized. Their inactivity has made these station groups doing what they want to do to become these massive Super-Groups. And if they finally allow the cross-ownership where a one owner can own a TV-paper combo, it probably won't matter because many of them have spun off their print media. And it's going to be a next to nothing sell if they're going to end the LMA/JSA/SSAs. So FCC good luck with trying to reform media ownership laws, because its going to tough to get anything done with that matter.

 

The 92 new stations are based on the assumption that they don't buy any more between now and then. No other company comes even close to the number of stations that Sinclair owns or the number of markets they are in...

 

Somehow I doubt that...although it might be a warning for those trying to sell that no matter the size or stature, they are the ones out first and it will take a HUGE amount of money to force an outbidding (Tribune/Local TV) or a secret deal done quietly with a shocker announcement (Gannett/Belo, Media General/Young) to avoid them. The conspiracy theorist in me thinks that the dockets on the other three were set up by Sinclair-friendly bureaucrats to try to create an unfair disadvantage to Tribune, Gannett and Media General...but of course, that is PURE speculation.

 

 

I'm not saying the doesn't have a right, as he has every right to buy any airspace he wants. But I find it better for a person like him to own and run stations under his own stewardship, like DuJuan McCoy or the Roberts Brothers (despite them being in bankruptcy) or any other minority folks, and not becoming a shell game or a guinea pig to those sorry devils in Maryland. If he was for real, I would love to see him buy stations with his own money, without the help of that devil, in a market that doesn't parallel where a Sinclair station is. And he can hire mostly minority folks to run a TV station (you know, each one, teach one). If Armstrong can run a TV station under his own stewardship, without the help of David, then I can say, "Hey, we got ourselves a real deal here". But I can't say that, when I see a pic of Armstrong sitting next to that Monster at the table. He's helping that Monster getting bigger and bigger, and that's all he cares about. And you wonder why I call him an "Uncle Tom"?!!!!! That's my prime reason!!!

 

I'm a go back to what I said back in March on the Local TV thread:

 

 

What I was saying on that was, Yes, it's probably childish to call 'em those names Sincrap, Cunningrab & Stealfield. But whether we call them out of their names, it'll probably won't do any good for me to do so, but it won't stop us from complaining anyway. Because every time we hear them strike another deal to acquire another group, we will continue to bitch and moan about it, when there's another deal being struck. And it won't stop Sinclair from doing what they have to.

 

I have to agree with you 100% on calling David Smith an "Massa" and Armstrong Williams "Uncle Tom!

Okay, about KDBC. The original deal was to have the station going to Michael Anderson and Cunningham Broadcasting. That was consummated last Wednesday.

 

Now this paperwork posted earlier this morning (8/7), shows that Sinclair wants to buy the station outright for $21M. And it states that one of the stations are not within the top-4 highest rated stations. In this case KDBC is within the top-4 at 4th place, KDBC is in sixth place. See Voices Chart & Ratings Chart here. Should this transaction goes through Sinclair will own KDBC & KFOX outright, with no shell needed.

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The Baltimore Sun posted that Sinclair's flagship station WBFF 45 has filed a petition to the FCC to have Washington's Fox O&O WTTG 5 blocked from the counties of Ann Arundel, Harford & Howard counties in Maryland. Sinclair states that WBFF wants to block WTTG because is no longer "significantly viewed" in those counties. But a county executive in Ann Arundel county filed a petition to deny the block, stating that her county benefits both WBFF & WTTG.

 

This is similar to what happen when WISN 12 tried to block WLS in Racine County, WI. And they lost that fight.

 

Okay, about KDBC. The original deal was to have the station going to Michael Anderson and Cunningham Broadcasting. That was consummated last Wednesday.

 

Now this paperwork posted earlier this morning (8/7), shows that Sinclair wants to buy the station outright for $21M. And it states that one of the stations are not within the top-4 highest rated stations. In this case KFOX is within the top-4, KDBC is in fifth place. See Voices Chart & Ratings Chart here. Should this transaction goes through Sinclair will own KDBC & KFOX outright, with no shell needed.

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Hey, where can I find the Voices and Ratings chart on the FCC website?

 

Hey, where can I find the Voices and Ratings chart on the FCC website?

 

Click on the links. It's attached with the paperwork. That paperwork shows the chart of all the stations and the ratings of each of those stations in El Paso. S!nclair showed that as proof, so they can acquire KDBC outright. Click on those links.

 

And just moments ago, the FCC has greenlighted the sale of the Fisher stations to Sinclair, including KOMO & KATU.

 

KIDK was also approved too. But remember, this will get resold by NPG's shell VistaWest Media.

 

Interesting the Fisher deal is being approved ahead of the Barrington deal...that one must have serious kickbacks from the FCC and possibly forced divestitures?

 

Interesting the Fisher deal is being approved ahead of the Barrington deal...that one must have serious kickbacks from the FCC and possibly forced divestitures?

 

I'm shocked that they would approve this and the Barrington ones are still waiting since March. Going on five months now. We just have to wait and see.

 

I'm shocked that they would approve this and the Barrington ones are still waiting since March. Going on five months now. We just have to wait and see.

 

For all the anger of Sinclair acquiring Fisher then, at least that is a fairly easy acquisition from an operational point of view due to the lack of major conflicts. Sinclair/Barrington has two severe conflicts (Syracuse and Peoria) - both of which would be difficult to ameliorate at this point without major divestitures - and a few other conflicts in place as well.

El Paso:

 

In fact, KDBC is #4 but KFOX is #6, a situation possible because the Univision and Telemundo affiliates are Top 4 in this market. You actually were looking at the alphabetized Voices chart, not the ranking-listed Rankings chart.

 

#1. KINT (Univision)

#2. KVIA (ABC)

#3. KTDO (Telemundo)

#4. KDBC (CBS)

#5. KTSM (NBC)

#6. KFOX (FOX)

 

If Granite goes to Nexstar, I wouldn't be surprised to see Nexstar and Sinclair either partnering or swapping some of their stations in affected markets.

 

Since there many stations involved, they got to find a way which ones is getting which and more in likely break the LMA. Talk about complication into overdrive in Syracuse & Peoria.

Interesting developments in Maryland as Sinclair tries to get DC Fox affiliate WTTG off the cable systems in the suburbs between Baltimore and Washington DC.

 

http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/tv/z-on-tv-blog/bal-wbff-wttg-fcc-turf-tiff-20130806,0,5028768.story

Sinclair has officially completed the Fisher deal.

 

http://www.sbgi.net/site_mgr/temp/Fisher%20Close.pdf

 

And Fisher's site now redirects to Sinclair's site.

DAMN!!!!

 

Talk about getting out of dodge. Just as soon as the FCC greenlighted it early yesterday, the Fisher folks got out of dodge!!.

 

Sad Day in the NW!!! KOMO 4 & KATU is Sinclair's first 2 ABC affils in the West Coast. Now the question is going to be, who going to be out?

DAMN!!!!

 

Talk about getting out of dodge. Just as soon as the FCC greenlighted it early yesterday, the Fisher folks got out of dodge!!.

 

Sad Day in the NW!!! KOMO 4 & KATU is Sinclair's first 2 ABC affils in the West Coast. Now the question is going to be, who going to be out?

Also, enjoy the Fisher stations' websites while you can -- though if Sinclair was smart, they'd keep the sites as-is, ditch their recently-launched POS sites, and start replicating the designs of the Fisher sites.

 

I won't be holding my breath.

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