Sinclair moves her up from general sales manager to the top spot at its Nebraska ABC-Fox duopoly.
DMA 106: LINCOLN, NB
KHGI Producer Quits Over Sinclair Mandates
Justin Simmons, a morning TV producer at a Sinclair-owned ABC affiliate in Nebraska, has resigned in protest of what he calls the company’s “obvious bias.”
DMA 105 (LINCOLN-HASTINGS-KEARNEY, NE)
Clock Ticking On Charter-Pappas NE Retrans
Pappas Telecasting: “Retransmission consent negotiations with Charter Cable have not been successful. As a result, NTV [KWNB (ABC)] and our sister station KFXL (Fox) may be removed from Charter’s lineup as of midnight on Dec. 31. We are hopeful that a mutually satisfactory agreement will quickly be reached.”
DMAS 72, 105 & 166
Rentrak Signs Pappas Telecasting’s Five TVs
The group owners’ stations in three markets are now using Rentrak’s census-based local TV measurement currency.
