The new deals for 13 stations include three stations that Sinclair provides sales and other services to under joint sales agreements. Its remaining Fox affiliate contracts don’t expire until next year.
Sinclair Renews Multiple Fox Affiliations
Sinclair Broadcast Group today said it has renewed its Fox affiliations in five markets that expired Dec. 31, 2015, and in five markets that expired June 30, 2016.
Fox affiliations were also renewed in three markets by the licensees of stations that Sinclair provides sales and other services to under joint sales agreements.
The company’s remaining Fox affiliation agreements (including stations to which Sinclair provides services) do not expire until sometime in 2017.
Sinclair’s EVP-General Counsel Barry Faber said: “We are pleased to have reached this agreement with Fox, a network with which we have had a long standing relationship. Fox’s programming, including valuable sports content such as the NFL and scripted shows including the highly acclaimed, Empire, are popular with our viewers.”
The markets owned and operated by Sinclair being renewed are:
- Bakersfield, CA Fresno/Visalia, CA
- Sioux City, IA
- Omaha, NE
- Wheeling, WVA/Steubenville, OH
- Macon, GA
- Chattanooga, TN
- Tallahassee, FL
- Lincoln/Hastings/Kearney, NE
- Corpus Christi, TX
The markets being renewed, and in which Sinclair provides sales and other services to pursuant to a joint sales agreement, are:
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- Champaign/Springfield/Decatur, IL
- Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, PA
- Portland, ME
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