By Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.

As part of a consortium led by Yankee Global Enterprises, Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. (“Sinclair”) (NASDAQ: SBGI) announced that an indirect subsidiary of Diamond Sports Group has acquired a 20% equity interest in the Yankee Entertainment and Sports Network (“YES Network”), valued at approximately $346 million on a total enterprise value of $3.47 billion. In addition, under the YES Network management team, Sinclair will direct the YES Network’s traditional and virtual distribution relationships.
The YES Network is the country’s most-watched regional sports network (RSN), broadcasting games, programs and specialty content for the New York Yankees, the Brooklyn Nets, Major League Soccer’s New York City FC, and the WNBA’s New York Liberty.

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Posted on September 3, 2019

By Liberty Vittert/The Conversation

Alright, you want to make this country a better place for yourself, your children and the many generations to come. So you make a donation to a political candidate you believe will fight for a better country.
But, in reality, you are wasting your money. Here’s why.

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Posted on August 29, 2019

By Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.

Sinclair Broadcast Group and The Walt Disney Company have announced the completion of the previously announced acquisition by Sinclair of the equity interests in 21 Regional Sports Networks (the “RSNs”) and Fox College Sports, which were acquired by Disney in its acquisition of 21st Century Fox.
The transaction ascribed a total enterprise value to the RSNs equal to $10.6 billion, which, after adjusting for minority interests, reflects an aggregate purchase price of $9.6 billion. The aggregate purchase price is subject to certain adjustments.

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Posted on August 28, 2019

11 a.m.: Wheel of Fortune – Episode 5919
11:30 a.m.: Wheel of Fortune – Episode 5920
Noon: Match Game
12:30 p.m.: Match Game
1 p.m.: Catch 21
1:30 p.m.: Catch 21 – Episode 4058
2 p.m.: The Chase – Episode 3008
3 p.m.: Best Ever Trivia Show – Hard Day at the Office
3:30 p.m.: America Says – The Walkers vs Opera Pals
4 p.m.: America Says – Pizzeria vs. Animal Trainers
4:30 p.m.: Common Knowledge – Moviegoers vs. Role Players
5 p.m.: Common Knowledge – Mommy Mayhem vs. Card Club
5:30 p.m.: Family Feud – Sudduth Family vs. Mcleod Family
6 p.m.: Family Feud – Hughes Family vs Reynolds Family
6:30 p.m.: Family Feud – Hughes Family vs Bronston Family
7 p.m.: Family Feud – Brawley Family vs. Bronke Family
7:30 p.m.: Family Feud – Brawley Family vs. Schiano Family
8 p.m.: America Says – Potluck Posse vs. Ex-Roomies
8:30: America Says – The Sooners vs. The Thrones
9 p.m.: America Says – Seniors vs. Millennials

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Posted on August 9, 2019

By Deborah Lupton/The Conversation

What kind of person do you imagine having a heart attack? Is it a middle-aged white businessman clutching his chest? Someone like Roger Sterling from Mad Men, who had two heart attacks in Season 1?

They keep wheeling Roger Sterling out of the building after his heart attack like it’s no big thing. Let’s show some urgency! #MadMen

— Jackie (@jackieohnine) September 23, 2011

While Mad Men was set in the 1960s, popular culture continues to repeat this stereotype. Can you think of any women in news reports, magazines, literary fiction, television drama or film who have been depicted having a heart attack or with any other symptoms of heart disease?

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Posted on August 8, 2019

By Jonathan Pie

“What’s going on? What is this lack of moral backbone? We’ve crossed a line. Stand up to this man – this stupid, deluded, talentless, fucking joke of a moron of a man is a joke no longer.”

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Posted on July 20, 2019

By Andrea Germanos/Common Dreams

The Federal Communications Commission was accused on Wednesday of sacrificing children’s “education and well-being all for corporate profit” after it weakened television programing rules.
The new order, framed by the agency as “modernizing” the decades-old broadcast rules, passed along party lines with the three Republican commissioners approving and the two Democrats dissenting.
Among the changes in the new order are that it requires “stations to air the substantial majority of their core programming on their primary program stream but allows stations to air up to 13 hours per quarter of regularly scheduled weekly programming on a multicast stream.”
That leeway means the content can be booted away from a channel’s main viewership to secondary stations, which allows the channels to focus more on monetizing – exactly what they had wanted.

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Posted on July 11, 2019

By Complex News

“Zack Stoner wasn’t your typical journalist. The 30-year-old made a name for himself with his YouTube channel ZackTV, which he used to document various aspects of Chicago’s South Side community, providing an apologetically raw look at the city’s violence, poverty, and music scene,” Complex News reports.

“A lot of people respect what I do,” he said in a 2018 interview with the Defender. “I’m the ‘Hood CNN.'”

“Less than two months after the Defender profile was published, Stoner was murdered in the South Loop. The case remains unsolved.
“In the latest installment of Complex News Presents, we take a closer look at Stoner’s impact on Chicago’s South Side as well as the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death.”

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Posted on July 10, 2019

By Dan Plumley and Rob Wilson/The Conversation

English national football teams going out in the semi-final of a major competition is nothing new. In fact, it has happened in successive women’s World Cups in 2015 and 2019 and with the men in 2018. But this time the mood feels different – England’s women, the “Lionesses,” have taken their nation on an incredible ride.
An overwhelmingly positive reaction following the team’s semi-final defeat to the USA swept the country – there is a sense that the potential to grow the women’s game is now more achievable than ever before.
The semi-final attracted a record-breaking peak TV audience of 11.7 million in the UK and the game is currently the country’s most-watched television program of 2019. The question now turns to how best to capitalize on this. Where does women’s soccer go next?

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Posted on July 9, 2019

By Truth Initiative

A new report released today by Truth Initiative, the national nonprofit dedicated to making tobacco use a thing of the past, reveals 92% of the shows most popular with young people aged 15 to 24 years old depict smoking prominently.
The organization first reported on the issue in 2018 with the groundbreaking report While You Were Streaming that found 79% of the shows popular with youth contained images of tobacco.
Approximately 28 million young people have witnessed tobacco use based on the estimated viewership of the 13 shows studied in this year’s report. According to the surgeon general, youth with more exposure to tobacco in movies are twice as likely to begin smoking compared to those with less exposure.

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Posted on July 5, 2019