Sinclair's Spree Dazzles Street,Puzzles Stations

摘要

There's been nothing short of a flood of TV station acquisitions over the past few years, and if there's a common denominator among them, it's that Sinclair Broadcast Group did the buying-or came close to doing so. The burgeoning Baltimore broadcaster, easily the most controversial station group around, agreed in April to pay $373.3 million in its latest acquisition, the 20-station Fisher Communications group, bringing its station acquisitions bill to around $2 billion in the past 20 months. If an owner is looking to unload a batch of TV stations small or large, Sinclair is probably the first place to start.