Want to hit Sinclair Stations?

[titaniumsalute]

Last edited Wed Apr 4, 2018, 12:15 PM - Edit history (1)

I've worked in various forms of broadcast media. Trust me you want to hit Sinclair stations? Go after one major business category on the local level. Car dealerships. They spend the vast majority, sometimes upward of 30 to 40% of ad sales for TV and radio stations.

Car dealerships are VERY sensitive to brand name, protecting reputations, etc. You start a group calling, writing, social media posting about local dealerships supporting the sensational and fascist tactics of Sinclair stations.

Get to the GM and the Sales Managers. Heck go see them in person. They will take note and listen.

List of Sinclair Stations here: http://www.businessinsider.com/sinclair-broadcast-group-stations-by-state-list-2018-4

[WhiteTara]

1. Great info

I'm kicking for exposure

[TeamPooka]

36. Should start with any advertiser of a Sinclair local news shows that taped the editorial

Deadspin used in their mashup video.
Tell the advertisers their support of propaganda is unacceptable and Boycott!

[Fullduplexxx]

2. Kr

[grantcart]

3. Bingo

[miyazaki]

4. You got that right.

I've worked tv for years. And if it isn't auto dealers, its local mattress/furniture outlets and restaurants.

And aside from Sinclair, many once privately owned stations were already swallowed up in the corporate takeover of America by other conservative entities. So the shits been running deeper and longer than most would realize.

[titaniumsalute]

13. Yes on Mattress/Furniture. Not much Restaurant in my DMA except fast food. NT

[tekriter]

16. Quite correct!

I have mentioned to my wife many times during the news that if it weren't for local car dealers, there wouldn't BE any local news...

[TeamPooka]

37. Electronic stores too!

[marble falls]

5. Very good advice.

[certainot]

6. i have another suggestion - record and transcribe them or at least when you

contact them let them know you can get what they're sponsoring in print.

same as for talk radio

let them know you have them sponsoring global warming denial in print, or repeating RW lies about the NRA, or defending trump and putin, etc.

it's faster and cheaper and more accurate to transcribe spoken word now, thanks to artificial intelligence, by an order of magnitude in the last 6 months -year. $5/hr or less at sonix.ai for instance.

[GoneOffShore]

7. Great idea. No Sinclair station in Philadelphia, so kicking for exposure.

[mcar]

8. What a great idea!

You are right - the majority of local TV ads are local car dealerships.

[MineralMan]

9. That works even better if you're a customer who has bought

a car from them. They count on you to return for your next car.

[bucolic_frolic]

10. Yeah

learn some Great Recession era weekend auto mechanic skills and repair your own instead of buying and flipping old or new. stop buying from the dealerships altoghether, that'll help too

[beachbum bob]

11. hopefully locsl democratic county parties take the initiative and mobilize and do this

hit them where it hurts with advertisers.

[calimary]

20. Im pushing my Indivisible group to do something, and

in turn, push it up the Indivisible food chain from the local level. That’s where a lot of the hands-on activists are these days!

[Honeycombe8]

12. If Sinclair is Fox, I don't think it'd work for this area. Fox is the major network here....

so if a dealership advertises on tv at all, it sort of has to be on Fox. There is a CBS, too, but it's new & not nearly the viewership. Fox is IT for local news & weather.

Still, I can check into and see what's what.

[tiredtoo]

26. this thread has a link

telling which stations are sinclair. check it out.

[Honeycombe8]

28. Thx. nt

[Pepsidog]

14. Picket dealerships who support hate by running ads on Sinclair. They will buckle and fast.

[Auggie]

15. K&R

[Kurt V.]

17. Great info. k&r

[pecosbob]

18. I hope we will see this sort of response concerning college sports broadcasts

and the hate-monger networks that pay the universities' sports programs for broadcasting those events.

[Initech]

19. Huh I had not thought of this angle before.

But that makes sense - when I watch local sports or news you get bombarded with commercials from car dealerships. Time to go after them.

[calimary]

21. Yep. And it will make noise, too.

Who by now hasn’t heard about the massive sponsor withdrawal from Laura Ingraham’s show?

[SunSeeker]

22. K & R

[Squinch]

23. kick. Great!!

[HAB911]

24. K&R

[garybeck]

25. no Vermont?! :)

[Ferrets are Cool]

27. Here it is lawyers. Every friggin commercial is an

ad for another attorney.

[njhoneybadger]

29. Excellent suggestion, Kudos!

[AllaN01Bear]

30. since i have a ad blocker , the article wont let me read the list but,

here is a wikipedia listing of sinclair statiions by state :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stations_owned_or_operated_by_Sinclair_Broadcast_Group#By_state_and_market

the entire wikipedia article here :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stations_owned_or_operated_by_Sinclair_Broadcast_Group

[Hermit-The-Prog]

32. thanks!

[Skittles]

31. Sinclair gas station flashed through my mind

yes indeed

[BobTheSubgenius]

33. Great ideas.

Putting even a dent in Sinclair would be a wonderful thing.

[sharedvalues]

34. Dealer in PA to call

Tom Hesser Chevrolet
http://www.tomhesserchevrolet.com
SALES [phone]


Advertises on WOLF-TV - a Sinclair station

[TeamPooka]

35. Pay attention to "brand ads" for cars from the local/regional Auto Groups

Tri-State, Tri-County/District etc Chevy/Ford/etc Dealer groups spend a lot of money and because their money is a lot of co-op from the mfg they have to be careful when boycotts occur
Hit them big time.

[randr]

38. Sinclairs strenght will be that they will contract nation wide advertisers

They can make large deals that cover more than one broadcast area. Add to this that the FCC has recently canceled the rule that all licensed broadcasters in a given area be required to provide a news desk.
Stations will now be allowed to close their local news departments if they can't compete or just don't want to.