The owner of Toledo, Ohio, NBC affiliate WNWO tells the cable operator’s subscribers the station is gone for the foreseeable future and encourages them to switch to Dish Network, DirecTV or AT&T U-verse.
DMA 76 (TOLEDO, OH)
Sinclair, Buckeye Fail To Strike Retrans Deal
Sinclair Broadcast Group, the owner of NBC affiliate WNWO Toledo, Ohio (DMA 76), announced today that retransmission consent negotiations with Buckeye Cable “have ended without the parties reaching an agreement.”
As a result, WNWO will remain off the cable system continue for the foreseeable future.
“Although we very much wanted to reach agreement with Buckeye,” said Barry Faber, Sinclair’s chief negotiator, “Buckeye was not willing to agree to what we believe, based on our negotiation of hundreds of similar agreements impacting numerous markets, including Toledo, to be fair and customary terms.”
Farber continued: “We apologize to Buckeye’s subscribers for the inconvenience this has caused. While we are aware that Buckeye has been providing its subscribers with a monthly credit of 24 cents as a result of the absence of WNWO, obviously this represents a mere fraction of the value of WNWO’s programming and is insulting not only to WNWO, but to Buckeye’s own subscribers. Our research indicates that better pricing and programming (including WNWO) is available from Buckeye competitors Dish Network, DirecTV and, for some people, AT&T U-verse, and we encourage Buckeye subscribers to find alternative means for receiving our station’s programming.”
Comments (15)
Mike Anderson says:
February 20, 2014 at 3:46 pm
omg, what a whacko! maybe someone at sinclair stole his wife.
none none says:
February 20, 2014 at 3:59 pm
I’m sure his wife left a long time ago. She was forced to read an email.
Wagner Pereira says:
February 20, 2014 at 4:22 pm
That shows the mind of a person who lists the Village People as their favorite artist on Facebook, yet he rails against “Corporate” acts (and Casablanca, their label) in his diatribes. The mind is a terrible thing to waste – and even worse if he thinks ANYONE read even 1 of the above. Note to James – quit posting other’s twitter and facebook pages as your own. A simple read shows they cannot be you as you have never typed below 140 characters in your life.
Eric Casella says:
February 20, 2014 at 4:31 pm
James, could you read to me at night? I’m getting sleepy!
Joanne McDonald says:
February 20, 2014 at 4:47 pm
I can’t wait for one day that the Grim Reaper would come over to Sinclair Broadcasting Group in Hunt Valley, Maryland to see what David Smith, Barry Faber, and their colleagues have done to the TV stations they have acquired and seeing them live in lavishness meaning Sinclair does not want to care about the TV stations they have bought and letting them get away with their greedy lifestyles.
Wagner Pereira says:
February 20, 2014 at 5:26 pm
Interesting. So in your world, the Grim Reaper is the final judge and jury one answers to? Notwithstanding the fact there is even a Grim Reaper, much less that if he/she/it exists, he/she/it even cares about Television Operations, it shows what dellusional world you live in.
Kristine Melser says:
February 20, 2014 at 4:59 pm
Buckeye is owned by a great company. WNWO has good people working there. Buckeye is one of the few local cable companies left that truly has a majority of the market. There is no need to go all Goliath in market size 74 when they just entered the local market for the first time. What a great introduction for Sinclair to the local market. *sarcasm* I hope they did not do layoffs too. Now you know what to expect when they come to your market.
Joanne McDonald says:
February 20, 2014 at 6:18 pm
Buckeye Cable subscribers should understand that 2013 was the year David Smith, Barry Faber, and Sinclair started to control the TV stations from the acquisitions of TV stations from Cox (KRII/KAME, KFOX), Barrington (WNWO, WEYI), Fisher (KOMO, KATU), and Titan (KMPH/KFRE, KDBC, KPTM/KXVO, KPTH/KMEG) and proposing to acquire control of TV stations from Allbritton (WJLA, KTUL, KATV, WBMA-LD /WCFT/WJSU, WCIV, WSET, WHTM), New Age, and other TV stations Sinclair is proposing to acquire from smaller TV deals.
The videos from RT America represents and targets Sinclair and how they are getting too big on media concentration:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP7dyz_nZk4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CiNLtLcDaY
Wagner Pereira says:
February 20, 2014 at 6:47 pm
You are still too delusional to see it. The same result could have happened regardless of the owner. Buckeye Cable Subs do not care about Sinclair or which TV Stations they own They simply want their NBC Programming from WNNO without a care what a Sinclair is. Besides, to most, Sinclair is a Oil Company. They have no idea of any other Company named Sinclair.
Patrick Schooley says:
February 20, 2014 at 5:37 pm
Aww, i missed all the good comments:( Mods are no fun.
Wagner Pereira says:
February 20, 2014 at 6:41 pm
Trust me when i tell you it was the same old War and Peace cut and pastes that were in total several thousand words long – about 20x longer than the 192 words in the original story. Bottom line – NOBODY read them nor would have you. You can use Google to find them if really desperate, as they have been posted roughly 40x over the past 9 months before the mods started deleting.