Stop Sinclair Again! Merging with UPN and WB!!

[WhiteTara]

On Tuesday, CBS Corporation and Time Warner announced they were merging the UPN and the WB television networks to create the "CW" -- a new larger TV network. This consolidation could have a significant effect on Sinclair because Sinclair owns 24 UPN and WB affiliate stations. If the CW signs new affiliate agreements with Sinclair, Sinclair could have an even more dominant role in local TV markets, but if the CW decides it makes no sense to work with a company that consistently slants local news and interrupts network programming to air right-wing propaganda, Sinclair's power will be significantly diminished.
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Less independent media is not what we need. Soros should be buying UPN or WB. What is Al doing piddling around in a medium that no one can see. We need those stations. Stop Sinclair and buy them for ourselves.

[Inland]

1. This week in "Smallville", Clark busts up an anti war rally! nt

[KamaAina]

2. In a number of these cities, The CW will be on the non-Sinclair station

generally those where The CW partners CBS or Tribune own the competing station. In the words of general manager Nelson Muntz, "HA-HA!"

Here are the current Sinclair WB and UPN affiliates:

WB-38 Tampa
WB-23 Minneapolis
WB-22 Pittsburgh
WB-54 Baltimore
WB-22 Raleigh
WB-58 Nashville
WB-18 Milwaukee
WB-40 Asheville / Spartenburg
WB-35 San Antonio
WB-21 Birmingham
WB-33 Norfolk
WB-34 Oklahoma City
WB-21 Las Vegas
WB-49 Buffalo
WB-43 Syracuse
WB-49 Paducah
UPN-28 Raleigh
UPN-30 Nashville
UPN-24 Milwaukee
UPN-68 Birmingham
UPN-48 Greensboro
UPN-36 Charleston

and from Wikipedia, here are the competing stations that have aced out Sinclair:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CW_affiliates

12 Tampa Bay, Florida WTOG UPN CBS Corporation
22 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania WNPA UPN CBS Corporation
42 Portsmouth-Norfolk, Virginia WGNT UPN CBS Corporation
45 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma KAUT UPN CBS Corporation, en route to New York Times

However, note that in Raleigh, Nashville, Milwaukee and Birmingham, both WB and UPN affiliates belong to the fascists at Sinclair.

Sadly, thanks to Bush**co-abetted media consolidation, most of the stations that will lose WB or UPN affiliation belong to nationwide conglomerates such as CBS, Tribune, or of course, Sinclair. Most of the rest are duopolies with a major-network station: for instance, KBWB San Francisco with KNTV (NBC), WCTX New Haven with WTNH (ABC), and perhaps most intriguingly, WUPL New Orleans with WWL (CBS). If any place could use a nationwide media outlet in these trying times, it is surely New Orleans.