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05/07/2020
Sinclair Details Mechanism for Sports Fee Refunds
Sinclair CEO Chris Ripley offered some answers on how the broadcaster approaches its sports rights and distribution agreements Wednesday during the company’s 1Q20 earnings call, noting that some sports rights agreements RSNs ink with professional sports teams and distributors carry a minimum game delivery obligation.
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01/03/2020
ATSC 3.0 Adopted as International Broadcast Standard
The International Telecommunications Union adopted ATSC 3.0 as a recommended digital broadcast standard, setting the stage for other countries around the world to embrace the IP-based standard.
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11/07/2019
Sinclair Says RSNs, Local Coverage Separate it From Streamers
Sinclair’s first earnings call since closing its acquisition of the Fox RSNs in August was sprinkled with questions surrounding the new business and some MVPDs’ decisions to drop regional sports nets
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09/27/2019
Sinclair CEO Talks RSN Acquisitions
If Comcast , AT&T , Disney , Fox or CBS had been in the running for the Fox regional sports networks, Sinclair probably wouldn’t have ended up with the 21 channels. “If any one of those five other
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09/27/2019
What You Need to Know About ATSC 3.0
First of all, forget about ATSC 3.0, which Sinclair CEO Chris Ripley describes as “a mouthful.”
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08/08/2019
Sinclair Blames AT&T, DISH for Blackout-Filled Summer
It has certainly been the summer of retrans disputes, but on Sinclair’s 2Q19 earnings call pres/CEO Chris Ripley blamed much of the fighting on AT&T and DISH.